I notice that with some Linux distros, some folk create a separate /boot partition, when installing on an MBR (MSdos) formatted drive.  Is there any reason or advantage gained in doing this? Personally, I can't see any (it's a bit of a waste of space), and prefer to install LL as either /root only, or with separate /root and /home partitions.

As ever, I'm looking forward to hearing your views & comments ...

I was running Linux Lite 3.6 but had to have an extended stay in bed to give these old bones a chance to recuporate lol. Well now i'm back and running Linux Lite 3.8 which in my old humble opinion is better than ever. 

Usually the updating of LL doesn't take more than 30 mins, however I had a computer that hadn't been updated since January that I updated yesterday.  It took about 2 hours to download and install the updates.

I will be meeting some youth today who have other computers running LL 3.4 that they have been using since January so haven't been updated recently thus I wanted to check (in case their updating takes long): 

1) At what point during the updating (downloading and installing) MIGHT I be able to stop the process and then resume it again?  Almost all of these computer require to be plugged in as the batteries are dead.

2) IF I can't "properly" interrupt the process WHAT HAPPENS if it is interrupted/stopped?  Will this play havoc with the OS/Computer and should I simply wait to update it when I know I have an uninterrupted period?

3) I thought there was a point between the downloading and installing where it asks "do you want to install these", however I didn't see it yesterday on the computer I updated.  I did leave it on it's own for a bit and wondered if perhaps I missed this question and then it went on to install after a countdown...Does anyone recall if it asks?

Thanks.

Is UEFI supported in Linux Lite? The short answer is no.

Why don't you support UEFI?

- It's an unnecessary technology. A replacement for a system that already performed a job. If BIOS was so bad, hardware vendors wouldn't still include it their devices. We follow the Unix Philosophy - "Write programs that do one thing and do it well." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy

- UEFI is insecure. It claims to protect the computer, but it can't. We could link to dozens of articles, but it's easier to simply Google 'UEFI security' to find out more and debunk this myth forever.

- UEFI is not without it's headaches and requires significantly more Support than BIOS does. I'm not prepared to put our community through more Support threads when it's completely unnecessary to do so.

- We have test builds but they are officially unsupported and there is no guarantee that any more will be created in the future - https://www.linuxliteos.com/forums/linux...uild-test/

- The layman does not understand the technology and all its caveats. Since we are an OS that targets computer novices and migrating Windows users, providing UEFI would contradict our mission.

- 'UEFI will make your OS more popular' - we're not interested in popularity, we're only interested in making the transition to a linux based operating system for people as simple and uncomplicated as possible. UEFI doesn't translate to a smoother install if you are unfamiliar with partitioning.

Will you ever support UEFI in Linux Lite?

Not if we can help it. It's been said that one day UEFI will completely replace BIOS. If that day comes we'll re-evaluate, but even then, there will still be millions of computers in existence that Linux Lite can be installed to. Linux Lite will still provide a valuable service for those people. "But, but, but, but I can use my mouse in the BIOS now thanks to UEFI..."



In conclusion.

I want people to self-educate. Don't blindly accept a technology simply because it exists or is widely used, or because 'others' are using it. Ask questions. What is UEFI? How did it start? Who is behind it?

Knowledge is power. Use it.

Just tried to post, first time in a good few days... Got an error

I installed LL, but after the install should have been finished I restarted my computer and everything seemd normal. But after I had once shutdown and removed the usb I got LL from my laptop opened to the BIOS menu and the ssd I installed LL to was not detected.
When I am in the live version of LL it detects my laptops ssd as a sd card reader and when I look into it all the LL files are there, but I can't boot to it.
please, help!

I needed a pc for a project and decided to resurrect an old laptop that has run flawlessly on ubuntu for over a decade. I had tied Linux Lite last year when helping a friend get an old laptop going again by rebuilding it upon Linux Lite. Worked like a charm. So I decided to put it on my old Laptop too.  But this time around, my laptop seems to be too much of a challenge for Linux Lite. I'm guessing the age of the laptop is the real issue. I'm hoping for a lot when I try to get such an old (2005) laptop to run on an up-to-date OS. But I've been a linux user for about 10 years now (not an expert - just a user) and I like to think I can get linux to do anything! I've spent time in the past on dozens of pc's troubleshooting audio and video issues - seems to be something that you have to accept when using linux - but I usually resolve the problem within hours. Not this time.

I have spent about 3 days looking at everything there is about getting sound to work including this forum and many others. I have come to the conclusion that it's simply incompatible (but faintly hoping I am wrong). The reason I believe this is I rebooted with an old 12.04 Live CD (where the sound works perfectly) and noted the results of the following command line queries (among others but I found these to be the most revealing):

aplay -l
amixer -c0 scontents
amixer -c0 scontrols

and I only found one thing different: "amixer -c0 scontrols" yields a shorter list of controls in Linux Lite than in 12.04. Mostly 'Master Switch' controls are missing.

My sound card: "aplay -l yields"

**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC880 Analog [ALC880 Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 1: ALC880 Digital [ALC880 Digital]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

Under Ubuntu 12.04 Live CD "amixer -c0 scontrols" yields

numid=26,iface=MIXER,name='Master Playback Switch'
numid=25,iface=MIXER,name='Master Playback Volume'
numid=4,iface=MIXER,name='Headphone Playback Switch'
numid=3,iface=MIXER,name='Headphone Playback Volume'
numid=27,iface=MIXER,name='PCM Playback Volume'
numid=2,iface=MIXER,name='Front Playback Switch'
numid=1,iface=MIXER,name='Front Playback Volume'
numid=6,iface=MIXER,name='CD Playback Switch'
numid=5,iface=MIXER,name='CD Playback Volume'
numid=8,iface=MIXER,name='Mic Playback Switch'
numid=7,iface=MIXER,name='Mic Playback Volume'
numid=9,iface=MIXER,name='Capture Switch'
numid=10,iface=MIXER,name='Capture Switch',index=1
numid=11,iface=MIXER,name='Capture Switch',index=2
numid=12,iface=MIXER,name='Capture Volume'
numid=13,iface=MIXER,name='Capture Volume',index=1
numid=14,iface=MIXER,name='Capture Volume',index=2
numid=22,iface=MIXER,name='IEC958 Default PCM Playback Switch'
numid=18,iface=MIXER,name='IEC958 Playback Con Mask'
numid=19,iface=MIXER,name='IEC958 Playback Pro Mask'
numid=20,iface=MIXER,name='IEC958 Playback Default'
numid=21,iface=MIXER,name='IEC958 Playback Switch'
numid=24,iface=MIXER,name='Beep Playback Switch'
numid=23,iface=MIXER,name='Beep Playback Volume'
numid=15,iface=MIXER,name='Input Source'
numid=16,iface=MIXER,name='Input Source',index=1
numid=17,iface=MIXER,name='Input Source',index=2
numid=26,iface=MIXER,name='Master Playback Switch'

But under Linux Lite "amixer -c0 scontrols" yields

Simple mixer control 'Master',0
Simple mixer control 'Headphone',0
Simple mixer control 'Speaker',0
Simple mixer control 'PCM',0
Simple mixer control 'Surround',0
Simple mixer control 'Center',0
Simple mixer control 'LFE',0
Simple mixer control 'Line',0
Simple mixer control 'Mic',0
Simple mixer control 'IEC958',0
Simple mixer control 'IEC958 Default PCM',0
Simple mixer control 'Beep',0
Simple mixer control 'Capture',0
Simple mixer control 'Capture',1
Simple mixer control 'Capture',2
Simple mixer control 'Channel Mode',0
Simple mixer control 'Input Source',0
Simple mixer control 'Input Source',1
Simple mixer control 'Input Source',2
Simple mixer control 'Loopback Mixing',0

Everything else I have looked at seems identically installed between the 12.04 Live CD and the Linux Lite I have installed.

"lsb_release -a" shows:

No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:  Ubuntu
Description:  Linux Lite 3.8
Release:  16.04
Codename:  xenial

I should point out that when playing a sound from any source if I look at "pavucontrol" everything looks fine: i get choices of speakers or headphones as usual, it's using analog stereo output as usual and the volume meter is showing the sound playing (blue bar bouncing around as it should. The conclusion I draw from that is the final connection to the speakers or headphones is not being made correctly. It's not a muting issue (or at least I've unmuted everything there is to unmute). I think it's the driver is simply not compatible.

So anyway, I thought I'd post this to the forum (sorry if I have not adhered to your conventions but forum posting is new to me) and see if someone could suggest a way forward. I'd put another version on the laptop if I could identify a version that would work. Or is there something I'm missing - not inconceivable. It seems to me I've tried just about everything anyone has ever suggested to troubleshoot this issue in the past three days.

Thanks.

I am new to the Linux environment so tell me if I make any mistake:
Just today I installed Linux Lite on my netbook (Lenovo s10-3C) which has a keyboard with spanish layout, on the CS live the keyboard wasn't working (thought it could be some files missing that once fully installed could be easily fixed). Well, I was wrong, I had to use a USB keyboard (Gamdias HERMES) in order to set the password so I can use it, I've tried to change different layout but none seem to work, I've also seen many posts about having the numpad keys set to the JKL,IOP... keys but any keys work (at least for me). Is there any way to solve this?
PD: While in bootup in GRUB all keys do work but once inside the OS they stop working.

Hello all,


For those of you who use Unlockforus mirror for Linux Lite updates, or simply to get your hands in some of the tools I share there with the community, I've rolled out IPv6 support, http2 and added some more muscle to the server.  The mirror is now available over HTTP and HTTPS on both protocols IPv4 and IPv6.


https://mirror.unlockforus.com/linuxlite/
http://mirror.unlockforus.com/linuxlite/





Cheers!

has anyone heard about changing the DNS settings to get a bit more speed and security. Cloudflare says that changing the DNS to 1.1.1.1 will acheive this. any thoughts or has anyone done this? supposedly you can do this to the router and computter.

link to their site......  https://1.1.1.1/