A few years back doing certain things, such as conveniently testing scripts and software on bare metal systems was difficult and time consuming generally involving home server deployments, and/or the desktop clutter of multiple keyboards and monitors. On the plus side virtual computing began its evolution into what it is today with applications like gnome-boxes, Oracle virtual box, Vmware and so forth, but perhaps less notably some other quite useful applications evolved as well, like Remmina, open SSH, x11vnc, and network manager. Those of us who have several machines, and want to make attempts at OS tweaking such as modifying 32 bit systems on their own baremetal hardware from our powerful 64bit boxes don’t really need the multiple monitors and keyboards as in the past, and/or we don’t need to configure headless servers and complex sharing applications via the terminal either.


I am currently modifying a Debian 9 32bit system toward a Linux Lite look and feel, partly for fun, and partly because this stable 32bit is probably the last best of its kind. Opinions vary. In any case the process I am about to describe is something anyone can do nowadays because of the refined nature of Linux networking these days. Many of the old headaches (starting x11vnc at startup, connecting to shared ethernet, autologin etc.) are simply no longer a problem.


Go ahead and install a Linux Ubuntu/LL or a Debian 9 32bit system on that old hardware. Use the monitor at first, and the keyboard and mouse so that everything configures correctly. Install openSSH server to it. Install x11vnc to it. Set the system to auotlogin. *With Debain 9 XFCE apply the changes in this link to lightdm. https://steemit.com/software/@kskarthik/...in-lightdm


Next connect your other computer to it via ethernet. In LL simply create a new wired connection with IPv4 set to -shared to other computers- and save the connection. Connect to it and then connect to that connection from the 32bit machine. If your bigger machine has WIFI you will now have an internet connection on the old 32bit box without needing a card or dongle drivers. Set the old 32bit box to connect automatically and allow all users and save the connection. Once everything connects note the IP addresses of the two machines. (connections information in network manager) You do not need to change firewall settings on either machine or open any ports for any of this. Your big machine with the shared connection is likely to be addressed to 10.42.0.1 and the old 32bit machine is likely to be 10.42.0.253 on a broadcom pcix card.


Open Remmina on your big machine and set up sftp, secure shell, and vnc computing connections to the 32bit machine i/e 10.42.0.253 address. Shut down your 32bit machine. Turn it back on without the monitor. Give it time to autologin and connect via ethernet. *Make sure you connect to your wired connection on the big machine. See the video below for demonstration.




https://youtu.be/zlYfWeAO2GI



As you can see from the video I tried to connect before the 32bit system was completely loaded. Also note that the ethernet connection ends when the 32bit machine shuts down. You can also see that the defaults for x11vnc and openSSH are correct for simple passworded connections. Newbies can certainly set this up easily. Install from synaptic and you’re good to go. Go ahead and set Remmina vnc computing for the best (slowest) and 24bit true color. It doesn’t matter if the x server package on the old machine is glitchy, your video is running on the big machine.


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Dear Developer
i update linux to new version 3.8 and when i stay away for 5 min  and login to linux again i see everything like attached .
please help me to solve this problem >
B R
laptop aspire E1-532G  intel pentium 1.7G 2MB Cache AMD radeon 1G 4G DDR3 and 256G SSD

I would like to limit the cache size in Chromium browser to 50 MB (52428800 bytes). Apparently you need to add the following parameter to the startup command:

i am using linux lite 3.8
not sure if this is in the right place,

i tried to video chat on facebook, using the latest firefox, not working right , crashes.
so i tried google chrome, same thing.

do i need to install something to get this to work ?,
in firefox i can see and hear them, but they cat see or hear me.
in google chrome, it just crashes .

I came across this once before and thought I'd toss this out to the community and those installing where a USB drive is not found or unreadable at boot even when in Legacy mode and SecureBoot disabled.


I noticed this on a couple HP's where I had a bootable flash drive for backup purposes (using Redo backup) that would not be read let alone listed in boot options.
I tried several USB/boot tools; Rufus, Yumi and Win32diskimage with the mounted redo iso (assuming same results for any LL iso)
Not until Storage was enabled as in the below screenshot, then the USB drives would be selectable in boot order/option (F9)


A few generic screenshots for example...
Secure Boot and Legacy



Storage needs enabled for Removable Media Boot

Today I wanted to try a new appearance for XFCE Desktop.
Downloaded it through:

Have just changed from Ipvanish to AirVpn.


Airvpn has a Gui for linux.


Have taken out a months subscription....Will see how it goes.


Looking good so far 


https://airvpn.org/

As Firefox keeps getting slower and slower I decided to have a look at Chromium. With LL v2.8 repos you get Chromium v64.0.3282.167. It starts and loads web pages much faster than FF but seems to be a bit heavier on memory.

One basic functionality that is missing is the bookmarks pane, which is standard in Firefox, Opera, IE and many other browsers. As it turns out this can be easily resolved by installing a bookmarks extension. After trying out a few of them I have settled on vBookmarks. It is based on NeatBookmarks but offers more features. Keyboard navigation in the bookmark tree works perfectly, scroll position and open folders are preserved after the pane is closed.

http://windviki.github.io/vBookmarks/

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detai...kmdmklpihb

There is one bug, inherited from NeatBookmarks: search function doesn't work. To solve this I decided to install another extension specifically designed for bookmarks search, Bookmark Manager Plus:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detai...jomfkejibg

An alternative to those two extensions is Bookmarks Manager and Viewer. The search function works ok but keyboard navigation is not as quick as with vBookmarks, you sometimes need to get the focus with the mouse. The extension also uses a little more memory.

https://add0n.com/bookmarks-manager.html

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detai...mghmmdhlfg

Another useful bookmark extension is Bookmark Scanner, used to delete duplicates and bookmarks with bad links:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detai...pdogjlejko

Another interesting extension is Popup my Bookmarks. It has good search function and nice GUI but unfortunately no keyboard navigation:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detai...bdjdbeifni

In Chromium Ctrl+B hotkey seems to be unassigned, so it can be safely assigned to the bookmarks extension. It is done from the Extension page (Alt+FLE), look for Keyboard Shortcuts at the bottom of that page.