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Linux Lite has been banned from sale on the popular NZ website http://www.trademe.co.nz (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_Me)

Full correspondence to date:

TradeMe - October 10 2015 6:49 PM (Arthur is an alias)

Dear Arthur, I'm getting in touch with you today about your recent listing(s) on Trade Me:

Linux Lite 2.6 Operating System Live DVD (#960706310)
Linux Lite 2.6 Operating System Live USB (#960121297)

You may not be aware, but we have some pretty specific rules around the sale of digital media. This covers digital media such as photos, software programs, audio files including music, or digital videos.

We don't allow any digital storage device (like hard drives, flash drives, CDs or DVDs) containing digital media if the digital media on the device would not otherwise be allowed to be listed on Trade Me.

Some examples that we wouldn't allow are a gaming console with saved games or an MP3 player with saved songs.

Given this I've had to remove your listing(s) from the site, don't worry I've refunded the fees.

If you were selling a device with saved software or music content, please feel free to delete the content and relist the device on the site.

Please review our banned and restricted list for more information about what can and cannot be sold on Trade Me:

http://www.trademe.co.nz/help/331/banned...cted-items

Please don't list items of this nature on Trade Me again. We appreciate your cooperation with this request.

Please reply if you'd like to discuss this further. Alternatively, you can call Trade Me on 0900 TRADE (0900 87233). Please be aware, calls cost $1.99 + GST per minute.

Regards,

Michael

Trade Me Support
http://www.trademe.co.nz

My reply - October 10 2015 10:46 PM

Could you please tell me what specifically has been banned on the media? I fail to see how a free Linux distribution violates your terms.

Yours sincerely,

Jerry Bezencon

Creator - Linux Lite
https://www.linuxliteos.com

TradeMe - October 11 2015 9:48 AM

Hi Jerry,

Thanks for getting back to us.

The issue is not to do with the media itself, but the way that it is being sold. We don't allow people to list USBs and discs with copied software on them.

This is due to the laws in NZ around digital media, so we can't bend the rules in any case.

I'm sorry that we weren't able to help you sell these.

Please let me know if you need a hand with anything else and I'll get back to you as soon as possible. If you’d like to chat we are available 24/7 on 0900 TRADE (0900 872 33). Please note calls cost $1.99 + GST per minute, but you’re welcome to flick me an email at any time.

All the best.

Regards,

Alison

Trade Me Support
http://www.trademe.co.nz

My reply - October 10 2015 10:46 PM

What software is specifically copied? Do you understand the concept of free software?

Are all these listings to be banned as well? They are all linux based operating systems with free software.

http://www.trademe.co.nz/computers/softw...321320.htm

http://www.trademe.co.nz/computers/softw...128079.htm

http://www.trademe.co.nz/computers/softw...128077.htm

http://www.trademe.co.nz/computers/softw...253343.htm

http://www.trademe.co.nz/computers/softw...045428.htm

http://www.trademe.co.nz/computers/softw...868161.htm

On their page - http://www.trademe.co.nz/help/331/banned...cted-items they state:

Digital content

You may not list any of the following unless one of the exceptions below applies:

Digital content (such as photos, software, audio files including music, and digital video files).

Exceptions: Provided the item or content is classified in accordance with the FVPC Act or does not require classification, you may list:
Digital content (like games and other software) on original discs.

I've yet to hear back from them. Suffice to say this looks fairly clear cut that I'm within my rights under their terms to sell software on original discs.

I'll keep you all updated on developments.

Jerry

What's wrong with all those Windows users saying GNU/Linux is only good for web browsing?

Every time I enter some operating system article's discussion, and someone says something good about GNU/Linux, Windows users downvote him to hell, and say garbage like "Linux is good only for web browsing, and it has many security holes, look at Google's Android which is Linux too! So many security holes! Windows blah blah blah".

Seriously... Comparing Android to systems like Ubuntu, Fedora, Mageia, Arch, Linux Lite? So much ignorance.

English / worldwide websites are better towards GNU/Linux. But people in my Europe country are like Windows brainwashed. If 1 individual say something good about it, he will instantly get downvoted rapidly.

I'm using GNU/Linux since February only, but I feel free, I can do anything to my system, and on it. If I want to use some Win software, I can use Wine. And it's not the GNU/Linux's problem that devs are not releasing as many games for Linux as for Windows.

What's your experience?

Does anyone know if and how I can change the feather logo that appears when booting LL2.6. My users dislike it and would prefer something a bit less depressing.

Hi
    After a few problems with 2.6 that i have been unable to resolve... I have decided to reinstall and start again...

I would be grateful if someone could give me some advise in the easiest way to reinstall Linux Lite 2.6..

I have done a search on this forum on this subject but i found nothing......

Much Appreciated 

Not seen some of the regulars misko_2083 or gold_finger or altman or N4RPS around for a while...???

I didn't install them manually or anything. I didn't upgrade them through PPA and then removed the ppa.. I didn't do anything with these packages. The only thing I did was installing and then removing libtiff4



I was installing some CANON printer drivers.

Hi guys,


I've had a fairly serious problem here for a couple of weeks. I use the Slimjet browser, which is built on Chromium. SJ usually runs a bit behind the latest Chromium release so that the author can make sure there are no conflicts with his additions to the core. This was exacerbated due to the "OK google" mess, in which google added the ability to listen to the user without telling him. That caused SJ to hold off on updating the core for several weeks until recently.


So I was fine on SJ 4.15 for a long time. But when v 5 just came out, it totally took down my LL 2.6 x64 system. I could move the mouse pointer, but nothing worked.  It would hang the GPU, especially when I tried to access certain menu functions, such as Settings or More Tools. Eventually the system would go into text mode and then crash (see pic).


I tried three different v 5 releases, and all did the same thing, though uptime went from 30 seconds to maybe 5 minutes. Uninstalling the older SJ version did not help.


I began to think my SJ profile was corrupted, so created a new one. Didn't help.


Finally I installed Chromium from the Synaptics PM. I thought the problem was solved until half an hour ago. When I went to access a text size drop-down menu in a composition box, it manifested in total black - the sign that the GPU was locking up. Surprisingly the system was able to recover from that, possibly because the menu was small. But this told me that the problem is not simply Slimjet, it is with Chromium as well.


Does anyone have any clue what is going on and what might be done about it? There are a lot of useful features in SJ that I would not like to lose. And now I'm walking on eggshells even with Chromium.


Thanks!

Hi,


Probably one for the dev's..??
A friends ask me to look at putting together a "Mini i7 PC" bare bones with LL on it.
((It's new, only 4 review's, 3 are running Linux on it.))


It's got 2 X mSATA slots, and he asked if it's possible to do a "RAID 0" set-up on them,
for improved throughput, but at the loss of redundancy. So put the OS across 2 X 120GB SSD's

i used linux lite 2.4 but due to some bugs my system was corrupt,
now its coming good cuz i had upgraded it...

just wondering why i cant change my download server?

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I would like to view the active Wifi carriers with in range of my laptop . I have a Dell D620, with Broadcom 1430 card installed. I have 2 extra PCMCIA adapter cards , that I used before I solved my Broadcom problems. One is  Belkin, the other TrendNet. I used to use the Belkin supplied soft ware to do this in Win XP . Is there a Linux way to do this. Thanks Darrell.