I'm looking into UFW alternatives. I haven't found the UI for GUFW to be very user friendly. This is when I came across Firewalld.
It has a highly configurable interface, it uses iptables, and I found it very intuitive to use.
With point and click settings, we are definitely onto a winner.



On that note, would you folks who use it, or can think for others, find having a Firewall status on Lite Widget handy?
I remember a member suggesting it for Series 5.x but can't remember who it was so it isn't my idea, but I thought was a good one. Some indicative, reassuring message related to Security.



To recap:

- Would having a Firewall status on Lite Widget, be a good idea?
- What do you think of Firewalld replacing GUFW?

For testers:

Hi everybody,

I restarted my Thinkpad T61 yesterday after upgrading firefox in the terminal, and the login screen was frozen so I wasn't able to enter my password. I tried several more times, including running the recovery mode boot, to no avail.

Any idea what could have happened or what I can do about it?

Many thanks!
Arbor

Its a long time since I've been to these forums, but I just installed 4.8 on my old windows 7 laptop.  I'm trying to install the clamav antivirus as instructed in the help manual.  Despite receiving the ERROR message and typing in the sudo rm -rf /var/log/clamav/freshclam.log command, I repeatedly get the reply: 

"can't download daily.cvd from https://database.clamav.net/daily.cvd.  Download failed.
Time out was reached.  Remote version 25742.
Has anyone else ran into this problem? 

This is the best distro I have ever used.

                                                                    Thank You, smg5559

I am a Chinese user who is new on linux lite. I found that it always says that I have no internet connection and blocks my request to do system upgrade EVEN when I am fully capable of updating everything else and download program packages freely.
I don't know how to fix this

I'm running Linux Lite 4.2 test-uefi upgraded to 4.8. I noticed fstab doesn't use the noatime parameter. I don't know how common that is. I've seen a couple distros that default to using that parm. I was wondering if that wouldn't make more sense for this distro which emphasize lightness?

Do people really use access time for anything? I don't. Sometimes it's informative when I view a file's properties, and reminice about the day I last viewed that file months ago. (wink). But, for all the constant write activity that goes along with that.. I always add noatime to any non-swap, non-efi partitions. It seems like that would be a sensible default for a light distro(?).

Also, I tripped over Linux Lite's default use of a software firewall. I don't think I've seen a Linux distro default to that being enabled. Yesterday I replaced my torrent-seeding, file-serving laptop with one loaded with Linux Lite. I was setting up NFS server (for remote file-manager access) and Teamviewer (for remote desktop access). I spent 30 minutes before I thought... "it's almost like this box is behind a firewall...." That caused me to look and see it actually was.

I can see how Linux Lite's target audience being Windows refugees it could make sense. I haven't played with Windows for 6 years. I assume it defaults to a personal firewall, idiot-proof, etc. But, I think Linux enthusiasts will trip over that. I wish there were an elegant way to make that feature more visible. Like, if it were in the task tray? I don't know if that's possible. But, to me it was a surprise to find a firewall enabled. (IMO, that could be contrary to being light. But, if Windows defaults to a software firewall, I can see why it's good to do the same with Linux Lite.).

Hello,

I've installed Wireguard but NetworkManager doesn't see it. My VPN provider tells me that Wireguard-support was added to NetworkManager v1.16 with KDE destops in mind. Since Ubuntu 18.04 runs on v1.10.14 and Xfce, no dice I guess. Can I upgrade to NetworkManager v1.16 without breaking anything? Has anyone here managed to install Wireguard in LL4.8?

Not ready yet! Only a waste of time to read until this is done
Intel pentium M 1,73GHz
2GB of ram (more installed manually to get 2GB)
original 60gb hdd

Note:I had FullDiskEncryption enabled, may slow down some hdd intensive tasks

I will make a zip file with png screenshots of different kind of tests as this is the easiest method to post it. it will also get updates as I do more performance testing

v1 contains 7z and raw disk benchmark (unencryped) need to get better way to share it maybe dropbox? (link to random possible unsafe service removed myself)

Here is the log:

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Install Updates Error log
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Install Updates could not successfully download and install available updates.
Go to https://www.linuxliteos.com/forums/ and paste the log below into a new or existing thread for assistance.

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Hi all.
I have been using LL for about 3 years now and i love it. In a professional context, I am more and more seriously considering to test its 
industrialized integration into a mixed MS/GNU corporate environment (managed with MS AD) in order to confront the challenge 
and the work it represents.

Around this project, I have 2 suggestions / requests:

- Could the system installer get an optional "custom applications" setting UI that would allow the user
to remove some applications (or even better discard their installation) or install others during LL setup ?
Moreover if this setting tool used an installation list that could be exported/imported it would be great:
Admin or users could create default application profiles for computers with different usage. 
Useful in a corporate environment.
- Is a "core" edition of LL meaningful in your opinion ? I mean a lighter edition that would only ship the
the applications/system tools required to configure/support/secure the system but no office, media, or user accessories apps ?

Well you can see these both requests are linked :-)
Thx a lot for reading guys.