I told my teenager that by the end of this year, Linux Lite will be replacing another of our Windows computers. This one being the computer she uses the most. (an HP AIO).

Because of the large tower and the odd location of the usb ports, so far, she's given only necessary attention to the computer LL is currently on.

Other than the fact that she'll use LO and FF (research) for school projects etc., the most important selling point for her to use LL as a permanent OS is how well Clementine and or gtk pod  will work with her 5th Gen ipod Touch and her itunes library.

We've downloaded both today -so once she gets to it, we'll hear the verdict.

I found this info http://askubuntu.com/questions/98628/can...th-an-ipod.

Does anyone here have any pointers or suggestions how to best get her ipod to work with LL?

Perhaps to my parental shame ,  I should tell her regardless of her verdict, LL is going on that computer.

I downloaded the second life file  and the firestorm second life file, unzipped both now im stuck . When i click both files and go to the read me text under installation it says this,The Second Life Linux client can entirely run from the directory you have
unpacked it into - no installation step is required.  If you wish to
perform a separate installation step anyway, you may run './install.sh'

Run ./secondlife from the installation directory to start Second Life.

So i dont know how to get it to run i got confused when it said no installation is required because i see no start or launch in folder :-\



Ok Problem resolved!! This OS rocks so much the more i learn stuff

Hi everyone im new to Linux , I just removed  windows vista and just in time 
So far i am loving me some linux lite 

For reasons I won't go into, I decided to install Linux Mint 17.3 alongside LL 2.8. Everything proceeded smoothly, but when the GRUB menu displayed and when I tried to run LL, I received an error message: file name expected.

I've never had issues with dual-booting previously and am somewhat concerned presently. I've checked on the forum and have found this issue mentioned before - it appears to be a bug in GRUB however I'm not sure if previous problems are similar to mine. One suggestion was to post the results of sudo update-grub - here they are:

paul@paul-desktop ~ $ sudo update-grub
[sudo] password for paul:
Generating grub configuration file ...
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.19.0-32-generic
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.19.0-32-generic
Found memtest86+ image: /boot/memtest86+.elf
Found memtest86+ image: /boot/memtest86+.bin
  No volume groups found
Found Linux Lite 2.8 (14.04) on /dev/sda1
done
paul@paul-desktop ~ $

I'm not the brightest spark going around and would appreciate step by step instructions.

Thanks
Paul

Hi,


I'm not able to set the system clock to synchronize. I go into the LL Control Center and select Date and Time. On the first tab is "[] Synchronize date and time over network". I check that, the NTP service starts, but I get an error that it couldn't complete:





I added the government server just to be sure that's not the problem.


I added the NTP rule to the UFW firewall. I even dropped the firewall for testing, but I still get the same error.


The odd thing is that the clock has the correct time, so it must be syncing, but this dialog is erroring out.


Any insight would be appreciated.

I have a fairly large number of virtual machines set up in Oracle Virtualbox 5.0.16.
However, I would like to copy and use them on another PC.

Once  I've copied the machine folders to the new PC, I'm a bit unsure how to get them
operational again.  As usual any help is much appreciated...

Regards
Mike

I have a windows XP computer that is used for youtube which now has LL and youtube runs sluggish (before and after LL) so a youtube client should do the trick. I was unable to find a youtube client. Anybody know about one?

Apparently, according to the youtube video link below, when one signs up to Win 10, you're agreeing to a massive invasion of privacy and security.  If the following is true then this is extremely worrying.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEBzc1GHUQE

About half-way through the youtube video, the phone-call finishes and an English guy gives you step-by-step advice on his PC on how to inactivate win10's 'spy-ware'. Worth watching if you want to use win10.

Thankfully, I decided to stop at win8.1 and anyway my main OS for everyday use has been and will continue to be LL - a lot simpler & safer!

Cheers
Mike

My post didn't go through,,,, WHY

Having set up a home network of 3 pc's all went well till I changed the 'distro' on one.It could see the others but not share
following the tutorial (Linux Lite.. very good) didn't seem to help on the other  machine . Having read loads of posts I came across a mention of 'Nitroshare' which I investigated .
Download a copy to each pc and run .. Instant network and share very easy and no in depth knowledge required.
Hope this will help others from tearing their hair out.