Hello

I don't have idea if this subforum is the right place to post this question. I work in a Technical School and we have a classroom with 16 PC's with Linux Lite Installed. The students are very "anxious" and modify the appearance of the desktop constantly. They modify panels, icons, backgrounds, shortcuts , etc.

I would like to know if is possible to reset this changes in every login to the original "modified by me"  configuration (our background, shortcuts on desktop, items on panels, etc) . I don't want that they lost her files (even if they are on the desktop). Can someone help me?

I'm looking for a large external hard drive for storage of my videos & TV programmes. It needs to have USB 3.0 connectivity and be around 8 to 10 TB (though can be more) and powered from a laptop (setup[1] in signature below). Do any of you have any personal recommendations?

Given its size, will it need its own independent power supply?  I know Seagate's recent 5TB external hard drive doesn't need one, as it's powered from the laptop through the USB 3.0 connection.

Also, I know many of the very large drives don't come with a single disk, but have more than one disk in a RAID configuration. Do such RAID drives have plug & play capability with LL or is there a bit of work to do to configure LL to use them?  Ideally I want an external USB drive that has just a single large disk - I would imagine with a single disk it's simpler and probably less likely that something will go wrong.

Many thanks in advance for any knowledge that you can share in this area.
Your help and advice is much appreciated as always  8)

Mike

PS. the laptop also has thunderbolt connectivity, but i have no idea if this will work readily with LL - any ideas?

Hello,
Just downloaded linux-lite-64bit for my Acer Aspire and I have been using Linux Mint 17.3 just fine. I was looking at the release notes for linux-lite 3.8 and I believe it says that you now provide your own version of my favorite choice of browser. Private browsing is why I use Mozilla Firefox, I have respect for those developers and I believe they have respect for me. Did I understand this correctly: Linux Lite chooses to monitor my searches on my favorite private browser?

I think that I have understood this correctly? A recent Twitter message made reference that LL versions from 2.0 onwards were available to download for new users.

Surely LL2.0 is no longer supported??  Using an old version of LL would put the machine at risk wouldn't it?

Or have I got the wrong end of the stick, yet again

I have had a problem with Teamviewer for a couple of months since the upgrade to version 13.  I have been able to see the remote computer but have had no control over it.  This morning I decided to revert back to Teamviewer 12 and it worked immediately.  I have subsequently upgraded to LinuxLite 3.8 on both devices but Teamviewer has reverted to version 13 and has now stopped working.  I can see the remote desktop but neither mouse nor keyboard controls work.  If I revert back to Teamviewer 12 can I prevent it upgrading to version 13 when I update my system files?  I've looked for a specific solution to my issue but haven't been able to find one.

I am using Linux Lite 3.8

I am performing update , but getting Hash Sum Mismatch Error?? How to resolve this error ??

Please Help
Gauri Shankar Gound
Mumbai India Thane
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Former MS power user, linux noob, and total LL fan here.  I don't know any languages really, but how can I tell which scripting languages I have available on my system?  Like a list.  I mean this primarily for shell scripts, but also potentially for compilers.  Have been thinking about learning something like python or ruby... I am also aware that I can probably install a package to support an additional language (scripted or compiled) if I want to.

 
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.


TC

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