Linux Lite loaded without errors. Installing updates was successful.

Message requested a reboot. Now it is stuck at the yellow feather screen for 10 hours.
I have 500MB internal drive. Should I wait for the update to process? Any Suggestions?

Christmas Eve: I went to turn on laptop (1) - see signature - then selected LL from the grubscreen.

Everything booted as usual, and left the laptop downloading TV programmes using get_iplayer. When I returned to the laptop later to check on things, I got the shock of my life ...

- the LL manual icon on the display was changed into a red triangle, with "danger" written on it
- my other Desktop icons were white-ed out, and had a red cross in the middle of all of them.
- icons on the bottom right panel (WiFi, clock, volume control, etc) were missing and when I moved the mouse around
  a few more disappeared
- touchpad or mouse clicks produced no response to either the menu button or any other Desktop icons

Therefore, I had to resort to the power-off button to shutdown. Then the following happened the next day ...

Christmas Day: returned to laptop (1), power on, and all I got was a black screen with a blinking short white line, near the top left hand corner of the display. >

The only thing that has changed with our home network, over the last few days, is that my elder son & girlfriend are staying with us over the Christmas period and have brought their laptops with them, and of course they are running off our router for the internet connection. They don't have Linux - they both have Windows 10.  Is it possible that they have inadvertently introduced something malicious to our home network, particularly if they haven't taken the security measure of having dual account set-ups on Windows 10, i.e. an admin a/c and a daily user a/c? I'm suspicious ...

From TLP website:

TLP brings you the benefits of advanced power management for Linux without the need to understand every technical detail. TLP comes with a default configuration already optimized for battery life, so you may just install and forget it. Nevertheless TLP is highly customizable to fulfil your specific requirements.

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Hello everybody!
I am willing to attempt an upgrade BIOS from 32 to 64 bits on my laptop, question is, is it worth it?
Recently I've noticed some instability in linux lite (is starting to crash often) using youtube, vlc etc.
My laptop is ancient, however the CPU is 64bits capable (so I was told) but is running on 32 bits.
I want to change it to 64 bits an make a clean install of the latest linuxlite 64 bits version using USB boot.
Also want to upgrade from 1gb ram to 4 gb ram.
This laptop is used for watching movies on vlc, surf the web, and play games using Lakka.

Is it worth doing this?
I like this laptop because it's built like a brick so I can carry it to work and so.
Here are the main specs of my system:

Model: Toshiba Satellite L40-15G

Reference: PSL48E-01T00GPT

Technology/Processor: Mobile Technology Intel® Pentium® Dual-Core 2310, (1.46 GHz), 533 Mhz Front Side Bus, 1 MB level 2 cache, Intel® GL960 chipset

Monitor: 15.4" WXGA panoramic TFT

Internal Video Mode: 16.7 million colours, resolution 1280x800

Hard Disk: S.M.A.R.T. 80 GB, SATA (5400rpm), Enhanced IDE

Memory: 512+512 MB DDR2 (667Mhz) RAM, expandable to 3072 MB/4096 MB

Graphics: Adapter Intel® GMA X3100 (up to 256MB shared)

Thanks for any opinions/help on this.

HY,
I'm a new user of Linux Lite and, after the installation, I've tried to make the updates.
Something goes wrong and the I've read this message:
"===========================
Install Updates Error log
===========================
Install Updates could not successfully download and install available updates.
Go to https://www.linuxliteos.com/forums/ and paste the log below into a new or existing thread for assistance."

So I'me her to ask to someone a little help to resolv this problem.
This is my Log:

============ Log ===========

Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
Calculating upgrade...
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  efibootmgr libefivar0 libllvm4.0
Use 'apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  gir1.2-networkmanager-1.0 gir1.2-nma-1.0 libdrm-common libllvm5.0
  linux-headers-4.4.0-105 linux-headers-4.4.0-105-generic
  linux-image-4.4.0-105-generic linux-image-extra-4.4.0-105-generic
The following packages will be upgraded:
  apparmor apt apt-transport-https apt-utils bind9-host binutils bluetooth
  bluez bluez-cups bluez-obexd bsdutils ca-certificates ca-certificates-java
  compiz compiz-core compiz-gnome compiz-plugins-default console-setup
  console-setup-linux cpp-5 cracklib-runtime cryptsetup cryptsetup-bin curl
  distro-info-data dkms dnsmasq-base dnsutils dpkg dpkg-dev evince
  evince-common firefox flashplugin-installer g++-5 gcc-5 gcc-5-base
  gir1.2-gdkpixbuf-2.0 gir1.2-javascriptcoregtk-4.0 gir1.2-webkit2-4.0
  grub-common grub-pc grub-pc-bin grub2-common indicator-sound-gtk2
  initramfs-tools initramfs-tools-bin initramfs-tools-core iproute iproute2
  keyboard-configuration klibc-utils libapparmor-perl libapparmor1
  libapt-inst2.0 libapt-pkg5.0 libasan2 libatomic1 libaudit-common libaudit1
  libbind9-140 libblkid1 libbluetooth3 libcc1-0 libcilkrts5 libcompizconfig0
  libcrack2 libcryptsetup4 libcurl3-gnutls libdb5.3 libdecoration0
  libdns-export162 libdns162 libdpkg-perl libdrm-amdgpu1 libdrm-intel1
  libdrm-nouveau2 libdrm-radeon1 libdrm2 libegl1-mesa libevdocument3-4
  libevview3-3 libfdisk1 libgbm1 libgcc-5-dev libgd3 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0
  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-common libgfortran3 libgl1-mesa-dri libgl1-mesa-glx
  libglapi-mesa libgles2-mesa libgomp1 libicu55 libidn11 libisc-export160
  libisc160 libisccc140 libisccfg140 libitm1 libjavascriptcoregtk-4.0-18
  libklibc liblouis-data liblouis9 liblwres141 libmirclient9 libmircommon7
  libmircore1 libmirprotobuf3 libmount1 libmpx0 libmysqlclient20
  libnm-glib-vpn1 libnm-glib4 libnm-gtk-common libnm-gtk0 libnm-util2 libnm0
  libnma-common libnma0 libnss3 libnss3-1d libnss3-nssdb libnuma1
  libpam-systemd libperl5.22 libplist3 libplymouth4 libpoppler-glib8
  libpoppler58 libpulse-mainloop-glib0 libpulse0 libpulsedsp libpython-stdlib
  libpython2.7 libpython2.7-minimal libpython2.7-stdlib libpython3.5
  libpython3.5-minimal libpython3.5-stdlib libquadmath0 libraw15 libseccomp2
  libsmartcols1 libsmbclient libssl1.0.0 libstdc++-5-dev libstdc++6
  libsystemd0 libubsan0 libudev1 libunity-control-center1 libuuid1 libva-drm1
  libva-x11-1 libva1 libwayland-client0 libwayland-cursor0
  libwayland-egl1-mesa libwayland-server0 libwbclient0 libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37
  libwebkit2gtk-4.0-37-gtk2 libxatracker2 libxcursor1 libxfont1 libxml2
  linux-firmware linux-generic linux-headers-generic linux-image-generic
  linux-libc-dev lite-software lite-sources lite-updatesnotify
  lite-upgrade-series3 lshw mesa-vdpau-drivers mount mysql-common
  network-manager network-manager-gnome ntp ntpdate nvidia-common
  openjdk-8-jdk openjdk-8-jdk-headless openjdk-8-jre openjdk-8-jre-headless
  openssl perl perl-base perl-modules-5.22 plymouth plymouth-label
  plymouth-theme-ubuntu-text plymouth-themes plymouth-x11 poppler-utils
  pulseaudio pulseaudio-module-bluetooth pulseaudio-module-x11
  pulseaudio-utils python python-gdbm python-libxml2 python-minimal
  python-samba python2.7 python2.7-minimal python3-distupgrade
  python3-update-manager python3.5 python3.5-minimal resolvconf rsync samba
  samba-common samba-common-bin samba-dsdb-modules samba-libs
  samba-vfs-modules smbclient squashfs-tools systemd systemd-sysv tcpdump
  thunderbird tzdata ubiquity ubiquity-frontend-debconf ubiquity-frontend-gtk
  ubiquity-ubuntu-artwork ubuntu-drivers-common ubuntu-minimal ubuntu-mono
  ubuntu-release-upgrader-core udev update-manager-core util-linux
  uuid-runtime va-driver-all virtualbox-guest-dkms virtualbox-guest-utils
  virtualbox-guest-x11 wget wpasupplicant x11proto-core-dev xserver-common
  xserver-xorg-core xul-ext-ubufox yad
253 upgraded, 8 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 98.2 MB/411 MB of archives.
After this operation, 380 MB of additional disk space will be used.
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Fetched 98.1 MB in 6min 15s (261 kB/s)
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E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?

I've no much experience and do'nt speak som well english.
Could someone help me please? 

My old Dell laptop with LL 3.6 will play some DVDs but not others.  Not sure what's happening.
Usually when I put a DVD in the CD-Rom drive the VLC media player will pop right up.
When I put other DVDs in the CD-Rom it will spin and spin.  Then I get a message that there is "no medium in drive".
Can anyone advise?

8)

Before I started this thread I looked to see if anyone mentioned the web browser Waterfox.  I found this:  https://www.linuxliteos.com/forums/on-to.../#msg37268  What is discussed has nothing to do with why I'm requesting this.  Bryan Lunduke has been covering the issues with Mozilla.  So far it appears that the best alternative to Firefox is Waterfox.  I've been using it more than Firefox and all the plugins I need to work, works great!  Least I can say about the current Firefox.  Can we please have Waterfox added to the Repositories?

Link to the Bryan Lunduke Video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMALm1VthGY

Here is how I currently install Waterfox:

To install waterfox: Add repository and gpg key from: https://github.com/hawkeye116477/waterfox-deb
then do:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install waterfox

PS:  I'm really sorry about how long Bryan talks....  I wish he would get to the point quicker.  But He does at least get to the point.  I'll give him that much.

Wishing all Members a very Merry Christmas and a happy 2018.   

I can't help it but i honestly believe that the likes of Microsoft Windows and Google Hangout + other software are nothing but spyware! I recently downloaded and installed Skype but decided to uninstall the software when i was requested to type in my mobile telephone number which i refused. In my opinion Microsoft only wanted my mobile telephone number so that they could track every phone call and even my Internet activity. So i have been looking for other voip software and came across https://appear.in and https://talky.io. Could i ask forum members if they have used appear.in and talky and what they thought of them please. Thanks all