Release Announcement

Linux Lite 4.6 RC1 is now available for testing.




Changes:

Lite Welcome gets a new Theme selector. Easily select either a Light or Dark Theme from the outset:



There is a new Keyboard and Num Lock section added to Lite Welcome too:



Help Manual gets Volume toggle tutorial. Time permitting, we'll also try to fit in a USB Persistence tutorial.



Updated Lite Sources with comment about Linux Lite repos only (see image below).



The CPU Performance mode plugin xfce4-cpufreq-plugin has been added as an option to the tray. Select it by right clicking on the Taskbar, Panel, Add new items, CPU Frequency Monitor. Right click on it and move it to where you want it.

New Wallpapers.

Updated the Papirus icon theme to the latest release.


Details:

Kernel: 4.15.0-55 (custom kernels also available via our Repository for versions 3.13 - 5.2)
Firefox: 68.0.1 Quantum
Thunderbird: 60.8.0
LibreOffice: 6.0.7
VLC: 3.0.7
Gimp: 2.10.12
Base: 18.04.2

Known Issues:

None as yet (watch this space as more people become involved in the testing process and report back to us).

There is no upgrade to or from RC releases. RC releases are for testing only and it is not recommended to run them as your main or secondary operating system.

Downloads:

HTTPS:

Download 64bit from here - Linux Lite 4.6 RC1 64bit
md5sum: 1220c90fea1e70aba1c012d0fdd3efcd
Size: 1.45Gb (DVD, USB)

TORRENT: (Fastest way to download the RC)

64bit Torrent from here - linux-lite-4.6-rc1-64bit.iso.torrent
Hash: 07ab9834da10d0c002bd6beb6f29be4d10604dcc
Size: 1.45Gb (DVD, USB)

Live USB/DVD/VirtualBox/Vmware:

Login is automatic, no credentials are required. The image can be written to a 2gb or larger USB stick, or a writable DVD. Alternatively, you can use the dd command: sudo dd if=linux-lite-4.6-rc1-64bit.iso of=/dev/sdx bs=4M where 'x' is the letter of your usb stick. In linux to find out the letter of your usb stick, open a terminal and type: df -h It is usually listed as 'media' or similar. Please see the built in Help Manual if you require a more detailed explanation of this procedure.

Yumi, Multiboot and other multi-boot applications are not supported. A good, simple point and click USB ISO burner is https://etcher.io/
If the screen locks during Live mode, type linux into the user box and click on the Login button (no password required)

Minimum Recommended Specs:
1Ghz processor
768mb ram
8gb HDD/SD
VGA screen capable of 1024x768 resolution
DVD drive or USB port for the ISO image

Preferred Specs:
1.5GHz processor+
1024mb ram+
20gb HDD/SSD+
VGA, DVI or HDMI screen capable of 1366x768 resolution+
DVD drive or USB port for the ISO image

Login to the live desktop is automatic.

The first thing you MUST do after a fresh install of Linux Lite is run Menu, Favorites, Install Updates.

As this is a RC release, there are bound to be bugs etc. Please help make the final stable for other people by participating in this RC. Please report any bugs and feedback in this thread.


Thank you

Jerry and the team.

Computer is an ASUS GL703V laptop w/ attached keyboard, Linux Lite 4.4

Been wanting to get into Linux for a while now, finally decided to get off my duff and get around to it.  A bit of research has made me want to start with Linux Lite.  Simple enough, slap the .iso on a spare USB drive, boot from my drive, give the preview a test drive to see if I like it, all's well right?  Except, no.

The keyboard doesn't work.  At all.  I have no idea if it's a numberlock issue, but ZERO of the fixes I found here work so far.  Fn plus any key doesn't enable it, in fact Fn+F5 through Fn+F12 just makes the mouse float to the top of the screen.  Num Lk, Shift+Num Lk, Fn+Num Lk, Fn+F11+Scroll lock, Ctrl plus any F* key, Fn+Shift+Num Lk.  None of the keybinds to turn off numberlock work.  Going through Lite Tweaks or Keyboard settings to disable numberlock doesn't work either, as since it's a preview it resets itself every time I reboot my computer.  I'm trying to get all issues solved in the preview, not only because that means there's a high chance I'll get the actual thing to work but also because I kinda need my keyboard to sign into my home network so I can connect to the internet to install the thing in the first place.

Does anyone else have any other solutions I can try?  I've been here for the past five hours trying to get my keyboard to do anything that isn't float my mouse to the top of the screen, and I'm about to throw in the towel and try another distro.

Check the ram usage for a 64bit OS and the Build number on the Wallpaper.

Hello,

I've had a struggle to get the keyboard on my Sony Vaio to use, and retain, certain characters such as the @ key.

It seems to be because it is a 102 key keyboard and I need English UK rather then English US.

I seem to have got it to work but when I click on the keyboard icon on the taskbar it still shows English US. Does this matter? I'd feel more comfortable if it showed English UK or at least a choice.

thanks
iosman



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I just had a Lenovo T400 thinkpad donated (era 2008) RAM 2 GB, 2 core, 2,26 GHz, 32 bit.  It came with no OS so couldn't tell if it worked before or not. USB mouse works fine.

When I go into mouse and touch pad, when the USB mouse is connected it shows the mouse in the dropdown "device" window, however when I disconnect the mouse there are no choices showing in the device menu.

I saw when googling that the Fcn+F8 button toggles the touch pad on and off, however doing this does not change anything.

When I click help when I have the mouse and touchpad window up it says only laptops with a synaptic touch pad will work or show up (something like this, but not the exact wording).

It is possible that the previous owner spilled something on it or something has caused it not to work, however in case this is not the problem might anyone have any suggestions of what to try?  I wasn't sure if I should maybe try downloading a synaptic driver for this lenovo T400, there seems to be two choices from softtonic when I google..?

I've been playing around with LL as a virtual machine guest for a year or so now and it occurred to me that I've never lookied into optimizing it for running in that environment (beyond installing the QEMU guest agent, with which I've had limited success).


While I'm interested in any optimization suggestions, in my case I'm using QEMU KVM (on and Unraid server) and accessing it via RDP (usually over the internet) mostly for email (Thunderbird) and web browser use (Chrome / Firefox).  Due to host hardware limitations my VM is currently only allocated 3G of memory.  :-(



If anybody has any suggestions on optimization settings for the VM or remote access, I'd love to hear them!


Thanks!

Ok  i have place at this old p4 optiplex 745 a agp video card
it shows fine  with windows. BUT with linux lite 3.8 32bits it shows 256 but the card is  512
here is some info *-display             
      description: VGA compatible controller
      product: Cedar [Radeon HD 5000/6000/7350/8350 Series]
      vendor: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
      physical id: 0
      bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
      version: 00
      width: 64 bits
      clock: 33MHz
      capabilities: pm pciexpress msi vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
      configuration: driver=radeon latency=0
      resources: irq:27 memory:d0000000-dfffffff memory:fe9e0000-fe9fffff ioport:dc00(size=256) memory:fea00000-fea1ffff

Is there any work around to make it  to what it is?? Or do i need a better one.arxontas

If there was to be one default game installed on Linux Lite, just as the distro comes, what would it be, from among those available, to be understood?

Do you think Linux Lite should have any game installed by default at all?

Hey [member=2]Jerry[/member], I found THIS page telling how to switch Ubuntu mode of operation into performance orientated, changing from the apparently default powersaving one. I think the program listed at the end - the 'indicator-cpufreq' - could come as default install on the distro, if fully compatible, to help people choose the performance mode more easily. If that makes better sense and does work, that is.

Hello. I had installed LL on my sister's old Vaio. When trying to boot up, it seems stuck in a loop.
It will show the feather, check speakers, then the screen goes blank.

digging deeper, here's where it's getting stuck

....
[<c17c55dc>] sysenter_past_esp+0x3d/0x61
Code: ff ff 64 a1 00 a6 c8 c1 89 45 f0 89 7d d8 a1 a4 52 c8 c1 c7 45 dc 0a 00 00 00 89 45 e0 64 c7 05 00 a6 c8 c1 00 00 00 00 fb 90 <8d> 74 26 00 ba ff ff ff ff bf 00 92 ae c1 0f bc 45 f0 0f 44 c2

(I hope I typed those right)

I was running 4.4.0-102
with dual boot into windows XP

Thanks!