To celebrate the release of Linux Lite 3.0, I'm running a competition to see who can guess the closest to the actual figure, the number lines of code the Linux Lite devs have produced since the beginning of the project.

The winner will be announced here and on Social Media - 1st July, 2016.

Entry is very simple. Simply register on the Forums and put your guess into your post.
Linux Lite Devs cannot enter (for obvious reasons)

I'm going to run a poll too just for fun, to see if people can guess the range.

The winner will get the following sent to them anywhere in the world:

- 1 each of Linux Lite 3.0 DVD's in 32bit and 64bit, hand signed by me.
- 1 each of Linux Lite 3.0 USB's in 32bit and 64bit.
- 2 of each of all the stickers in our range.













You can view these prizes here - https://www.linuxliteos.com/shop.html

Good luck and I hope you have fun with this!

Jerry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ed3UOyBc1Bs

This might be of concern. Just thought I would post it.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/teamviewe...4758.shtml

I have had a number of emails to me explaining that some folks are being asked for login credentials when booting the live image of Linux Lite 3.0

I am going to spend the day exploring this issue and will edit and update this post with my findings.

In the meantime, I have updated the Linux Lite 3.0 Release Announcement with the appropriate image writing software recommendations. These will also appear on the main Linux Lite 3.0 website. The Help Manual already has these suggestions listed.

Hi,

Just instaled LL 3.0, looking sharp but stuill 1 or 2 things i dislike.

Okay, In the first menu during installation i changed the language to my native language, namely Dutch (Nederlands). So everything went in Dutch and everything went smoothly. After installation the whole LL was in English which i still find really strange cause LL is the only distro which doesn't select and install the language chosen in the first step of the installation. All other *buntu-based distro's select AND install the language chosen in the first step of installation. No problem, this was fixed as well. After a reboot a menu pops up asking me if i want to keep the old (English) names for my home folders or do i want to keep the new (Dutch) names for the folders  in my home folder. Ofcourse i chose the last option.

Surprisingly i noticed that, beside the folder Bureaublad (Dutch for desktop) also a folder called Desktop is still present while all the other folders were correctly renamed to Dutch.

How do i get rid of that Desktop folder? That's the question here.
The person who provides the correct answer which solves my problem wins a 2-week cruise in the Caribbean. Tickets made available by Jerry.....











.....(just kidding  ;D ;D ;D )
Any help will be very much appreciated ofcourse!

This article shouldn't affect the average user here who manually starts Teamviewer to share their desktop to give or receive remote support.  It's more something that is affecting some organizations using Teamviewer in an always-on fashion to remotely log in to a pool of systems they own and manage.  But I post it here anyway as a reminder of the importance of having good password habits, and as a way to "beat to the punch" anyone who may discover this news and have out of scope concerns about Linux Lite having Teamviewer available for install via Lite Software. 

http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/06/...-know-how/

New install LL3.0 works well but very slow to start
@mydesktop:~$  systemd-analyze blame
        33.065s nmbd.service                      jerrys took 5 secs the rest of his was in ms
        31.854s samba-ad-dc.service
        11.720s ModemManager.service
          9.766s NetworkManager.service
          9.686s apparmor.service
          9.299s NetworkManager-wait-online.service
          9.208s dev-sda1.device
          8.998s accounts-daemon.service
          7.676s lightdm.service   
          5.835s polkitd.service
          4.831s thermald.service
          3.613s ufw.service
          3.500s networking.service
          2.990s gpu-manager.service
          2.816s lvm2-monitor.service
          2.101s systemd-tmpfiles-setup-dev.service
          2.049s grub-common.service
          1.726s avahi-daemon.service
          1.711s upower.service
          1.674s systemd-modules-load.service
As I do not use windows and this is a stand alone desktop only using LL can I dispense with samba or any others

Once up and running no problems encoutered

Cheers mike

Hello,

Normally one would expect a user to hang around awhile before making suggestions.... but in this case, the suggestion has to do with the process of becoming a new Forum user, so I am posting now before I forget.

Meanwhile, I want to thank you for making Linux Lite - and this Forum - available for free.

There are two reasons that the Forum Password Requirements are way too strict:

1 - This is not a bank.  No one is going to go to the trouble of cracking Forum passwords - just to post to Linux Lite Forum as me.  So, even passwords like "1234" and "password" are good enough here.

2 - It turns out that requiring upper and lower case, numerals and symbols does not increase security.  In actuality, it is allowing upper and lower case, numerals and symbols that increases the number of guesses that password cracking software must use.  That is all that is needed.  There are lengthy explanations on the web, but this is succinct:

I woke up today with a clearer head than yesterday.  8)

And realized with an MBR BIOS booting system, the BIOS sees each disk as a whole.

So, if I wanted to leave my Windows installation entirely intact (for safety, because the PC is used by other people), then I would need to have the GRUB bootloader on another disk.

But I want to use my SSD - which currently has a Windows Vista OS partition and an unused empty Windows partition (saved for a second OS) - for LL 3.0 .

Then the idea came to me - can I specify my other internal (slow) hard drive (used for data) as the location for the new GRUB boot loader in "Something Else" ?

Then I could use the unused SSD space for the actual LL 3.0 OS files (root).

After backing up my data from the Windows part of the SSD, I gave it a try and it worked fine.

I specified the slower hard drive "sdb" in the location for the boot loader, and then had Something Else format my empty additional D: partition for ext4 and mount "/" there and then I had it carve out 2gb for "/swap" as well and format that as well.

After the installation, when I rebooted, it went into Windows as normal - no problems.

Then in rebooting, I hit F12 and had it boot into the slower hard drive and then, sure enough, GRUB appeared and after the requisite 10 seconds, launched LL 3.0 .

So, not only is "Something Else" a great Miles Davis tune, it also will partition and format easily and simply, and will put GRUB bootloader whereever you want.

I have installed linux lite 2.8 on over a dozen boxes now, many times along side windows7 and 10, on machines as old as ten years, up to brand new. I repair windows machines and networks for personal and small business users. Every personal user customer I have gotten to try linux lite has converted wholly, some within a few days. The functionality of the GUI configuration tools is excellent. My everyday main system is Debian Jessie on its own disk, and Kali linux on a second disk to which I have added a partition for linux lite 2.8. For years I have installed Kubuntu on my customers windows systems as an alternative, but I have become disenchanted with KDE of late, even though I began there around 2000 with a boxed Suse linux CD set. I have had very few issues with linux lite installations that required the terminal. It is amazing how far we have come. It is an excellent piece of software for windows converts. I use the new lxle posh on my laptop, 2.4G cpu, but in all honesty I suspect that linux lite would be easier on the cpu because of some kernel configurations. I'm looking into why. I will continue to test linux lite on every new machine I get the opportunity to load it to. I am available for questions.
Trinidad