I get emails every week from people from all over the world. Just thought I would share with you one of them of the type that I regularly get.

Quote:Hello Jerry,

Thank you for the information and for taking the time to reply to my email. I will try older versions of Linux Lite in this machine hoping to find one that will work.

I want to take the opportunity to thank you, your staff and the Linux Lite community for creating and maintaining this great piece of software.

As a hobby I help friends, family and people I know with their computers. Very often I have to work with machines that were built a long time ago with hardware that over the years have become obsolete and is no longer possible to upgrade the software inside these machines to their latest versions but that other than that are still in very good working condition. At this pace programmed obsolescence would inevitably force the owners of these computers to have to buy new ones. Fortunately thanks to your good work it is possible to breath new life into these machines by installing your OS on them.

For most of the people I know, switching to a “different” OS is a very daunting thing to do. The simplicity and ease of use of your software helps in the transition. I am no computer expert but I have managed to install your software successfully in many aged computers for the joy of their owners. Sometimes I assemble machines from pieces of old hardware that I get in second hand markets for little money and I install Linux Lite on them. When I have to provide maintenance to a computer, I leave one of these computers with Linux Lite as a replacement while I do the work, in the hope that by experiencing the new software will lead to new converts willing to adopt Linux Lite and then move on to use it in their own machines.

I also buy old laptops (netbooks) and install  Linux Lite on them and then give them as presents to people who cannot afford a computer or take them with me when I go on holidays to countries where computers are still expensive and leave them there, in the hands of people who would otherwise not have a chance to have access to computer technology. This is my small contribution to try to close the gap left behind by progress as we run to introduce new technology while the old is still usable.

Once again, thank you for doing what you do which in turn allows me do what I do to help spread the use of computer technology.

Cheers,

Marco Vargas

Hey guys I got an friend wondering if it possible to install this program gnome recipes? She been using for an while but switch to lite due to her netbook.

God not dead. He roaring like an lion.

Hi, all,

Is there a way to specifically either block a single update item (or set of items), or to revert as such?

For example, in the past (on Windows) I've had the odd occasion in which an update of LibreOffice has stopped a key macro running properly in a workbook I use constantly.  This seems to happen from time to time.  I had got around that by installing a portableapps version in a veracrypt container; so whenever the update presented this problem, I could quickly swap back to the previous version.

In LL, an obvious solution is to update my old test unit, and then *not* update LibreOffice on the main unit if the problem should recur.  But at present, I only know how to update all or nothing - rather than omit specific updates if the test shows there's an issue.

I hope that's clear.

Many thanks.

Every now and then the appearance of LibreOffice and/or other icons changes on my Desktop screen. The new appearance may last a while, sometimes only a short time, but the icons always seem to revert back to their normal appearance. This link shows what happens sometimes on one of my laptops: https://imgur.com/a/u8uly

If you look at these two screenshots, the first shows the normal appearance of 3 x LibreOffice icons and 1 x *.jpg file.
The second picture shows the appearance they sometimes acquire on rebooting.

Has anyone else observed this?  Is it anything to worry about?

We can use apt-get changelog 'package name' and see the pertinent CVEs, but given that CVEs involving Meltdown and Spectre involve an evolving and growing list of applications it would be preferable to just list the CVEs with a date limitation like ^2018-01-01. Any ideas out there? Maybe have to create a python based app and script? Could prove to be a sensible project for the future. Would save reading for affected packages from the CVE first.

TC

Since kernel changes, mitigations, and so forth are probably going to be nagging at us for quite a while a simple functional shortcut to the spectre-meltdown-checker in nice to have. Aliasing the commnd and saving to .bashrc is probably the most efficient way to make the application more convenient.

Open a terminal and enter:    sudo nano ~/.bashrc
Scroll down to where you see alias listed.
Below the last alias line listed add the following:
alias smck='cd spectre-meltdown-checker/;chmod +x spectre-meltdown-checker.sh;sudo ./spectre-meltdown-checker.sh'
Hit Control X, then Y, then Enter to save.
Exit the terminal.
Re-open the terminal and at the prompt type:  smck
Enter your sudo password and spectre-meltdown-checker will run.
Since the alias is added to .bashrc the command smck (for which I found no other unique instances in bash) will run the spectre-meltdown-checker for you.

Simple and clean and sensible since it is a terminal app to begin with.

TC

You may also alias the Ubuntu commands and Rok's memory leak checker in the same way.


i use alias ubusmck and roksmck.

hey guys i been thinking and was wondering why we dont have an telegram Group?? im on an lot of Groups on telegram. like Solus and JB. i think it would help branch out the community!

The password reset screen does not appear. I do not press the shift key. What should I do?
 

Hi
when I click Home folder icon in the tray its window opens in top left of the screen.
How can it be made to open in the centre of the screen, or prefer, wherever on the screen I opened it the prior time ?

Hi
after install all seems to be well, very beautiful operating system 8)

Checked drivers per install window.
Additional Drivers
unknown:unknown
this device is not working
Not coloured blue it says Using Processor microcode firmware for Intel CPUs from intel-microcode (open source)
Coloured blue it says Do not use the device

Do I need to make any changes or it is ok?