I played in the last few days with suricata ids/ips and today i come across something terrible if this thing happens on any LinuxLite and not only on my end. Updating from the menu icon "install updates" seems to trigger an alert from suricata rule 2013028 emerging threats. At first i thought is a false positive but then i saw each and every time i click that update icon from the menu it triggers that alert and it send some outbound connection toward google domain ip 142.250.178 and 216.x.x.x For example the alert looks like this: "[1:2013028:5] ET POLICY curl User-Agent Outbound [**] [Classification: Attempted Information Leak] [Priority: 2] {TCP} 192.168.x.x:36200 -> 142.250.178.14:80" .To check further the problem i blocked with UFW outbound connections toward those ip ranges coresponding to google domains for port 80. The result was that when i clicked again on "install updates" i get the message your pc is not connected to the internet. Tried several times to be sure and same result. Tried to update via terminal and everything seems to work ok via terminal. I disabled firewall and clicked again now it works again of course triggering again that alert. Now the question is, is it ok to let google know when i make or not make updates? For me this is a huge privacy issue and hope that this happens only on my end so the question you guys have the same outcome when blocking google port 80? I use youtube a lot this days so my id can be easily asociated with my update schedule. Thank you in advance and hope i did not bored to death anyone with this one  :

I like running LL on one of my machines so much that I want to update/upgrade/convert my two other Linux machines.

I particularity want the LL desktop, and I expect to loose XCFE and Gtk customization.

I want to preserve all the applications I've installed, SMB/networking, MythTV, GCC build environments, etc.

Any suggestions how to approach this? 

How do i manually configure proxy settings here. I'm using pdanet to share my mobile unlimited internet connection.for now i'm using this net connection only in Firefox by changing its proxy settings.but it would be really helpful if i could use this network connection in the entire os. Ubuntu has a GUI for this task  and i don't know how to get this done in our xfce environment.can you guys help me?

Installed this version about 2 month.  The problem is this, the window manager will only allow one window  at a time.  If I open a spreadsheet and select File/Open.  The Open File dialog opens and the Main Window closes, when the Open File dialog closes the main window opens.
Any help would be appreciated.

Hi.  I just installed linux lite on an old HP. I installed from a dvd I burned to on the same computer.  When I try to update I get the following error.  I am a complete novice. I tried reading other threads, but they didn't seem to pertain, so I am sorry if this is a duplicate.

===========================
Install Updates Error log
===========================
Install Updates could not fetch the package cache information lists.
Go to https://www.linuxliteos.com/forums/ and paste the log below into a new or existing thread for assistance.

============ Log ===========

Ign:1 cdrom://Linux Lite 5.2 - Release amd64 dists/ InRelease
Ign:2 cdrom://Linux 20.04 - Release amd64 dists/ InRelease
Err:3 cdrom://Linux Lite 5.2 - Release amd64 dists/ Release
  Please use apt-cdrom to make this CD-ROM recognized by APT. apt-get update cannot be used to add new CD-ROMs
Err:4 cdrom://Linux 20.04 - Release amd64 dists/ Release
  Please use apt-cdrom to make this CD-ROM recognized by APT. apt-get update cannot be used to add new CD-ROMs
Hit:5 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal InRelease
Hit:6 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu focal InRelease
Hit:7 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-backports InRelease
Hit:8 http://repo.linuxliteos.com/linuxlite emerald InRelease
Hit:9 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security InRelease
Hit:10 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates InRelease
Reading package lists...
E: The repository 'cdrom://Linux Lite 5.2 - Release amd64 dists/ Release' does not have a Release file.
E: The repository 'cdrom://Linux 20.04 - Release amd64 dists/ Release' does not have a Release file.

Hello.  I am using a Dell laptop with Linux 4.8.  The battery icon is present, showing 0% charge and no time indicator.  BIOS indicates "battery charging disabled.  Battery status shown as ok.  Laptop works fine on line power.  Original Dell charger and battery.  Laptop only 3 years old. 

Here is the acpi -V result

linuxlite  ~  acpi -V
Battery 0: Charging, 0%, 2417:00:00 until charged
Battery 0: design capacity 2800 mAh, last full capacity 2417 mAh = 86%
Adapter 0: on-line
Thermal 0: ok, 44.0 degrees C
Thermal 0: trip point 0 switches to mode hot at temperature 100.0 degrees C
Thermal 0: trip point 1 switches to mode passive at temperature 92.0 degrees C
Cooling 0: intel_powerclamp no state information available
Cooling 1: Fan 0 of 1
Cooling 2: soc_dts0 no state information available
Cooling 3: Processor 0 of 10
Cooling 4: Processor 0 of 10
Cooling 5: soc_dts1 no state information available
Can anyone help or is my battery simply toast.
Thanks. Javier

Is it planned, in a near future, to add Intel Optane support?
I was reading that THERE IS support on SLED already, so I hope is not proprietary and makes it out to the open source community eventually, but that's only me dreaming.


...I mean real support, not just recognising it as an Nvme block.


Thanks and have a good weekend.

Server maintenance will be underway shortly, expect services to be down for a few hours. Thank you.

Handbrake version  in synaptic appears to have a sound problem when converting AVI or MOV files to mp4.  The version is very old.Wish to use a stable but more up to date  version,

ideas please.  Thanks.

Using HP desktop LL3.8 64bit 4GB Ram

Hello not sure if this is the right spot to ask this question

How do I connect my lap to to my tv with an HDMI cable ? I connected to two up but instead of the tv acting as the monitor the screen from my laptop is in the top left hand corner I tried to get a screen shot to add but it would not let me. The tv screen had the linux lite symbol ( the feather or what ever it is) and the laptop screen is a small section of the top left corner even when i adjust the settings so the tv is the main monitor the same issue image in top left hand corner not the whole screen I've been able to do this with a windows lap top and pc but not Linux I have a pc with Linux mint 19.03 and my Linux lite laptop 5.2

Any advice would be greatly appreciated