.....and, no more dual bootin on the same hard drive!!  Had two computers that were set up as dual boot machines and they are both toast  just now.  The score is now 2-0 GRUB vs Me. The only way will ever have to OSes is on two separate hard drives totally independent of each other. Just now running Mint 17 as a stand alone. Didn't quite understand why the first machines hard drive went bad until this second one went for a dump.
Had some financial difficulty which forced me into austerity and so went the ISP for about 6 months. One morning fired up the Dell to play some Freecell to kill some time and just after Post beep beep beep the CMOS battery failed. Changed it and reset the date and time, went to reboot  no joy. Just after Post F1 to continue...repeatedly. Lost everything files, docs,  all my art work, both OSes. Looks like, to me anyway, when GRUB fails it takes a hard drive with it. After this never going to dual boot again! The only way I'll have two OSes in the same computer is on two separate hard drives totally independent of each other and switch between the two.
Was given three computers that were deemed scrap by their owners. They had never been maintained. Two Dells and an HP. All three are running perfect just now. The two Dells have XP Pro  and the HP runs Mint 17,  and never shall any meet. Going to repair my other Dell and HP. Will run Lite in the Dell and maybe Win7 in the HP...it's bigger. Not really upset just shocked this can happen twice. BTW BOOT Repair is junk. If this happens to you pull the hard drive and get a new one or good used. Reinstall whatever and your good to go...and don't Google way too much misinformation...total waste of time and effort. Better safe than sorry.
On a more positive note, it's all good experience and have learned lots. Have a good day all, will try to check in more often now that we're up n' runnin'.

Hello everyone. Today (or actually yesterday), I wiped my system free of Arch Linux and installed Linux Lite 2.6 64-bit. My main reason for switching is because Arch has a rather poor community for support, particularly the behavior portrayed in the #archlinux IRC channel on freenode. Yes, the Wiki is one of the best out there, but I always felt I was "on my own" on many issues I had with it. I never joined the Arch fourms since I probably would be told to "read the Wiki", so I didn't bother . It also had awful support for my WiFi card (a Broadcom BCM4313, go figure). Besides, it came hard to maintain after some time after I realized that I no longer use my main laptop as much as I used to anymore since I acquired a smartphone. The updates were bleeding edge, sure, but there was always something I had to fix, and the package cache would quickly pile up. My fear of packages breaking was another worry of mine, but it oddly never happened, at least, not severe cases anyway. That was surprising, because I had to run Arch for 3 months without updating, and when I did, I expected all hell to break loose. It didn't. I must be the luckiest Arch user yet (or now former-Arch user).

Not all can be said bad about Arch though. I learned alot about how Linux is run at the backend, how it handles data, how it handles packages, among other things. I started from scratch, and built my KDE desktop similar to Unity. Took me a good 3 months to get the bugs worked out and basic functions to be setup. It was a fun learning experience. It's one of the best ways of learning Linux in a relatively short amount of time in the grand scheme of things. Gentoo and Linux From Scratch, you'll have to wait DAYS for the kernel to compile, let alone your desktop environment.

I am happy to be back to the simple Ubuntu-based nature of Linux Lite. After using Ubuntu from April 2011 to Dec 2013, I became very familiar with Ubuntu, when I was running that waay back when, from the early Unity days to 12.04 LTS. Yeah, the PPAs will pile up I'm sure over time, lol. I gotta dust off my Ubuntu apt-get commands from the deep neurons in my brain, lol. Coming to Linux Lite now made me realize how much RAM I actually wasted just to run KDE lol. With KDE5 (or Plasma 5 as they call it now), the RAM usage is beyond ridiculous, using nearly 2GB from a cold boot. I feel rather badly on how I kinda stressed my system to run KDE, and how I did for a long time. It's awesome to be back on something simple and straightforward, on something that I can grab and go, like a quick snack at midnight.

It's great to be back... Hope to be more active around the forums also.

Kind Regards,
Theo T.

We're really excited about a big announcement tomorrow. Be sure to check in with us to see what it is! In the meantime, here's a clue...

Hi guys can you help me pleas. I don't know what to do. So i'm not a begginer at linux(running another Ubuntu PC...) but i'm new to linux lite. I want to share files between linux lite and win7. I have configurated the conf file like in the tutorial (https://www.linuxliteos.com/manual/network.html). i also checked if everything works with commands smbclient -L name and testparm the conf file. At the end when i want to connect to my share from windows I cant. I can see the device but i cant't access it when i want to acces it i get error 0x80070035 (the network path was not fount). i tryed all sorts of stuff.(ping the computer, access it from run and cmd, i restarted the drivers for ethernet card). so you can see i'm desperate. i dont know what to do. Pleas help me.

PS i'm running  ubuntu on another PC with samba server and it works great.  :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(

my conf file:
#======================= Global Settings ====================================
[global]
workgroup = WORKGROUP
server string = Linux Lite Shares
; netbios name = ray
security = share
encrypt passwords = true
username map = /etc/samba/smbusers
map to guest = bad user
; guest account = nobody
dns proxy = no
#======================= Share Definitions ===================================
[linuxliteshare]
path = /home/%U/share
; available = yes
valid users = %U %G
write list = %U
; browsable = yes
; public = no
writable = yes
; printable = no
locking = no
strict locking = no

I am doing a little proselytizing for Linux Lite and hopefully reviving a Linux Users Group or Linux Special Interest Group in my area. 

"...  I have been looking for an active LUG or Linux SIG in Knoxville area since I left Mac OS X for Linux as my primary OS in Jan 2014. I also thought this Facebook group was dead too until I checked again today and saw some resent posts.  I am on the KLUG http://utklug.org/#page-top mailing list but have not been able to stir up any interest in meetings. I can remember when I tried Linux unsuccessfully before that KLUG, Knoxville/Oak Ridge LUG, and a Linux SIG in the East Tennessee Computer Society www.etcs.org/ were all active. Dave Hester wrote on 9/7/15, "A possible idea would be to setup a meetup.com group and just list this facebook group as the "homepage" That might attract more people. ..."
I would like to attend an active LUG or Linux SIG in the Knoxville area. I am sure if there is is interest in starting another Linux SIG within the East Tennessee Computer Society http://www.etcs.org/, it would be welcomed."http://www.facebook.com/groups/10197206670/

Hi,


I'm currently working with dev on systemback not running a new fresh LL2.6(64bit)install.
I have never had an issue with systemback not running, but this is my 1st 2.6 install
All my other installs have been 2.0/2.4, then I have upgraded them to 2.6


I wonder if somebody can check on a straight 2.6 install, not an upgrade to 2.6


The symptoms are:


If I,
select the Menu > System > Systemback then NO GUI


If in a terminal I,

Hi friends,

I have a very bad displaying using Libreoffice, so I can't use it; may be it's a known issue, but I didn't find anything on the web.

Can you help me?

Thanks

I have Linux Lite 2.6 installed on an old IBM ThinkPad A31p which doesn't have an internal wireless adapter, so I purchased a cheap USB adapter on Amazon, brand unknown.  It came with a CD with the driver, but I don't know how to install the driver from the CD.  I have tried to use the GDebi package installer, but got this error:

dpkg: error processing archive firmware-ralink_0.43_all.deb (--install):
trying to overwrite '/lib/firmware/rt3290.bin', which is also in package linux-firmware 1.127.15
Errors were encountered while processing:
firmware-ralink_0.43_all.deb

Can anyone help me?  Thanks

Okay I am boot both linux lite 32bit and 64bit version off of a single usb using yumi. What would be the easiest way to get data persistence on both versions? If possible I would like to have more than four Gigs of storage.

Hi folks,

There was a major security upgrade to the Forums today. In the interests of getting this patch applied as quickly as possible, there was a minor casualty in the process.

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If there are any other bugs from todays upgrade, please let me know in this thread.

Apologies for this