My system has not been updating for several days now. Not sure what has happened?

Thank you,

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I always see this lines right after I add new repository (before repository information and prompt enter or cancel) . I don't know what this codes mean and I don't what to do with it, but I think there's a problem about my system (is it about python, idk).
Can anyone tell me what is it and how or fix it if it's a problem?

I'm using Linux Lite 3.8 x86
Thanks in advance.

Sorry, I'm new here, despite having been using Lite for a year or so. Not sure where I should post this. Just tried to update and got the attached log - I'm not even sure if Linux has been automatically updating - it worked straight after installing and I've just left it alone!

Thanks for your help

Ian

Hi guys, I rcently installed linux lite 4.6 on a Lenovo Yoga 330.
After the installation everything seems ok, but after a few actions on the touchpad this stops working, the pointer stops moving.
Linux is up, only the pointer is ko.
this is the output of lsb_release -a

Here's an article posted on blogs.gnome.org which I found very interesting and thought of sharing here https://blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/2019/12...latform-1/

An excerpt:

Quote:In our community there is this idea that “Linux” is the third platform next to Windows and macOS. It’s closely connected to things like the “year of the Linux desktop”, and can be seen in the language around things like Flatpak, which bills itself as “The Future of Apps on Linux” and the Linux App Summit, which is “designed to accelerate the growth of the Linux application ecosystem”.

Something I've noticed on our Dell D630 is that when I have a single-boot setup with LL, the laptop boots straight to the Desktop, bypassing the grubscreen. However, this problem is absent with dual-boot setups (either LL/Win or LL/Linux), where the grubscreen shows itself as you'd expect. This no-show of grubscreen, with single-boot setups, also occurs on some of our other machines.

I'm trying LL4.6 as a single-boot setup on the D630: unlike LL3.8, which it whizzes along, it doesn't seem to like LL4.6 (loads of lag on booting). So I've installed the headers & image for the older 4.4 kernel, hoping this will get LL4.6 to work on this 13-year-old machine. However, without the grublist appearing on boot-up, I'm unable to select the 4.4 kernel.  How do I fix this so I can get to select the kernel 4.4 ?

Any help / comments much appreciated ...

I just loaded updated duel hard drives into my computer. Both have the latest version of Linux Lite and Ubuntu.
These drives HAD the last version of each O.S. When I booted the Desktop Computer I had an option to select either OS and it would boot to the selected OS. This has always worked. Same wires, same hard drives,same sockets, different versions of OS's.
NOW, the same screen is shown allowing either OS to selected as before. BUT, if I select the Linux Lite from the menu I get an error after ten seconds saying no device found???????
If I unplug the Ubuntu hard drive ( it is listed and will auto load to that if I leave the selections alone) and try to boot to the Linux Lite hard drive, the computed boots to it instantly.
It is only when BOTH hard drives are connected to the motherboard that the Linux Lite is NOT SEEN if selected.
Please help.

[size=1em]MS said: Believeitornot, there is still one active 32-bit computer somewhere in my vicinity. Long story short, what kind of distro would you recommend for a 32-bit machine?
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Try LL 3.8 32-bit, the last version in series 3 that has 32-bit - it's good till sometime in 2021. I still use it from time-to-time & it works well. Using a Debian base, rather than an Ubuntu one for LL, would prolong 32-bit in LL beyond 2021, but I'm sure Jerry has good reasons for not doing this, e.g. Debian is not quite so beginner-friendly as Ubuntu.


Have a good Christmas Day!

Cheers
Mike

These are some rogue ideas and questions that have been roaming around my mind for a time now.

First, Internet services. People typically buy and use pre-paid subscription services, which use to reset the available data transfer supply back to entry value for every customer, each new 'month', regardless whether 1% or 100% of given transfer was used - charging full conventional price. What about if you could actually buy and use only as much as you need or want? You see, the "amount" of Internet access one gets, in data flow, is sold in packages, much like microtransactions known from another field. You buy per 10, 50, 100, 500 or 1000 GB of data in download and upload thresholds, for example. Bought packages are understandably cumulative, with order of expenditure matching the order of purchase. The customer has all the available data until use up, ideally speaking, but in certain scenarios, one year expiry date could be imposed. When either the edge of use up or expiry date comes close, an application - something like the 'Lite Widget' or a little monitor of a sort somewhere else - pops up and tells one is about to drain the supply. Okay, but what if I am a gamer using some cloud services for gaming and I am just in the middle of a very important duel? There must be some immediate mean to 'pump up' the data flow stock available. If so, one could opt for a smart-watch, which would always indicate how much of data storage is available for given user, for all connected devices. Preset default package, one click or two click buy, done in an instant. I call it 'the fluid model'.

EDIT:

Speaking of gaming services, in case all desktop was to be based on the cloud and the actual quality PC hardware was to be a matter of selected settings, I wonder how this could affect the gaming industry. First of all, native gaming would basically equal contemporary cloud gaming. It would make better sense if games were bought and streamed from the same source the virtual desktop resides in. Which means, the desktop would only make for the 'access gate' to a game, telling whether the purchased setup allows to run the game and how well it can do, while the very game itself, would be streamed anyway.

Unnecessarily better than contemporary visions of cloud gaming, which do not base on any particular user-dependent hardware setup, but it would make more money, since gamers buy gamer level of stuff.

Face it, if you want to milk anyone, at least milk those who voluntarily involve in useless stuff anyway.