It's that time again.

Please vote for as many wallpapers as you like, the more the merrier!

The Linux Lite branded wallpapers are finished with a huge thanks to [member=5059]whateverthing[/member] for his amazing artwork, we can't wait to show you all!

Car



Desert



Petals



Earth



Game Over



Lake



Islands



Maldives



NY City



Press Start



Roses



Strawberries



Sun Rays



Sunset



Surface



The Letter

I want to take this opportunity to send recognize a couple of extremely generous Donors lately.

[member=6317]pedrito[/member] and [member=11791]az2020[/member] have each donated astounding amounts to our project. One was in NZD, the other in Bitcoin. For both of these to come in so close together at this time, is extremely helpful.

The timing for me is perfect as I've just recently had to purchase a bulk lot of Lightscribe DVD's for our shop, postage bags and USB drives.

I also would like to recognize all past and present Donors. Without your generosity, I would have a lot of the things I currently have like a UEFI laptop that help improve the quality and appeal of Linux Lite.

To view the latest big Gold Donors, see - https://www.linuxliteos.com/donate_people.html

When clicking on the Logout icon, the circular green one at the right hand end of Menu,  I used to get a logout options window showing suspend, logout, shut down, re-start etc. Now it immediately closes my open applications and logs me out. This is a very recent install of LL4.8, updated.

I do have Power settings set to Suspend when I press the power button, and that works ok, but I'd like to know why the previous way no longer works.

I checked on another computer with LL4.6 and it works as usual, with options window.

many thanks in anticipation.

I have set my lite source to a Europe one, yet I did Updates this morning and it was from a US repository.
I went to change source back to the Europe one but the system told me that was already the default one. Why did it go to US this morning?

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.).