If you have time, would Jerry and the development team consider having a weekly or biweekly (fortnightly in the Queen's English) podcast or You Tube Discussion to discuss past and future of Linux Lite, etc.?

http://askubuntu.com/questions/577286/ho...duckduckgo

Hi Everyone,

LL2.2 is installed on a USB stick which is my primary OS. The stick is formatted as ext4 with a swap file. Very quick to boot and shut down and a pleasure to use.

I want to create a live USB stick to demonstrate this great OS to others.

My usual way is to use USB-creator-gtk which I install using synaptic, delete the casper-rw file and shrink the partition to a minimum. Then create a new partition as ext4 (default) naming it casper-rw. If the stick is new, I then have the OS in a fat32 partition of about 755Mb and the stick remainder as ext4. Persistence is then available over the whole stick.

This works fine but is somewhat slower (obviously), than being physically installed on the stick. Still pretty good, though!

Two things:-
What does everyone think about this type of formatting. Should I reformat the stick as a different file system,- ext2 or 3 or 4 etc beforehand, or just leave it as is, i.e. fat32 and ext4.

Also, I've noticed that when using gparted in LL to resize the partitions in the new stick, gparted exits without performing the tasks. I need to use another linux OS to do this part of the stick creation.  Any comments on this.

Thanks for any advice.  Cheers!

Hi everyone,

We're in the middle of changing web hosts. Bandwidth has become a major issue and we have been in correspondence with a host who assured our growth needs will be met.

During this transition there may be some disruptions to web services, this includes:

- Main website
- Forums
- Repository
- LL Email accounts

We appreciate your patience during this period and will work with the new host to ensure as little downtime as possible.

Thank you,

Jerry

Hello, All!

How do I get dark Notification Area icon backgrounds in the panel of the MediterraneanLight Theme?

Here's a screenshot, to help explain:

[img height=449 width=800]http://i.imgur.com/6WA7tU9.png[/img]

At least My-Weather-Indicator lets you choose between light and dark icons.

I could load the other affected icons into GIMP and edit the backgrounds to be transparent, but that's a hassle. No doubt I'd have to do that for most of the new notification icons other programs add.

Since I tend towards finding the most difficult way to do just about EVERYTHING, I figured I'd ask to see if there's an easier solution out there than mine..

73 DE N4RPS
Rob

Edit: Marked as solved, see reply #7 for the best answer.

Greetings to all!

Just installed LL2.4b on my 10yo multi-boot test system -- awesome distro ... Much improved over LL2.2 imho.

Fwiw: I just noticed on the new whisker menu (All category) that there are TWO entries labeled "Network Connections" which display the SAME popup info; that's duplicate info. The normal XFCE-menu does not have this (redundant?) menu entry. Will continue testing ...

Release Announcement

Linux Lite 2.4 Beta is now available for testing. With the release of Linux Lite 2.4 Beta, we continue to evolve into a fully featured, light weight free operating system. There are enhancements to Lite Software, Install Updates, Lite Tweaks and Network Share Settings. Bountysource has been a major factor in our ability to enhance our software. By paying developers to help improve our software, we improve the quality and usability of our applications. There is added support for exFAT, Android MTPFS, VPN connections and NTP to name a few. You get the latest Whisker Menu, there's a new default Terminal theme, we've fixed syslog and auth.log not logging and the Windows (Super) key now opens the Menu.

Bountysource - https://www.bountysource.com/teams/linuxlite

The core team of Linux Lite deserves recognition for this effort. Thank you to Misko for his dedication to improving our code. Thanks also to gold_finger for continuing to grow the Help Manual with so many useful tutorials. Thank you to the Forum Mods for keeping the Forums tidy and well managed and of course thank you to everyone who helps on the Forums - you are our community, we can't do this without you. Thank you to everyone who uses Linux Lite, you are changing the way the world sees computers, one person at a time, you're showing people that there are alternatives. You're each a part of something very special. As usual you still get the latest Firefox, Thunderbird, LibreOffice, Wine (via Lite Software) and Gimp.

Changelog:

New Lite Software: Menu, System, Lite Software.
New Lite Tweaks (formerly Lite Cleaner).
New Install Updates GUI. New Network Share Settings: Menu, System, Network Share Settings.
New Wallpapers.
Added support for: VPN connections, Thunar thumbnail previews, Mugshot, exFAT, NTP, Android MTPFS.
Fixed Backups popping up randomly.
Fixed syslog, auth.log not logging.
Latest WhiskerMenu.
Changed Terminal theme.
Windows key (Super key) opens the Menu (not in the Live version).
Disabled Screen Off and Screensaver.
Removed obsolete PPA's.

Lite Software - Formerly Install Additional Software and Remove Additional Software, Lite Software combines all of these features into one tool.
Install Updates - Now with an easy to follow GUI interface.
Network Share Settings - Formerly Network Share Settings with 2 sub menus, this is now combined into one Menu link with a new GUI interface.

We're hoping to have an upgrade path starting with Linux Lite 2.4. That means that if you have from Linux Lite 2.0 upwards, with one command you'll be able to update to 2.4 It's not ready yet, but we are hoping to release it around 2.4 This will be a rush to the finish line as Linux Lite 2.4 will be released on 1st April, 2015. Stay tuned for updates to this. The Welcome window has some information regarding 'Upgrading Linux Lite'. This is a placeholder for now, this procedure is not available yet.

Wallpaper credits:

http://charlie-henson.deviantart.com/gal...Wallpapers
https://www.linuxliteos.com/forums/membe...d-artwork/
https://www.linuxliteos.com/forums/wallp.../#msg10665

Downloads:
HTTP:
Download 32bit from here - Linux Lite 2.4 Beta 32bit
md5sum: ed58ee9a5a5832b8744968eb61e9751e
Size: 753mb (DVD, USB)

Download 64bit from here - Linux Lite 2.4 Beta 64bit
md5sum: 8fa30f30b4cc045e94aa49abc4558855
Size: 753mb (DVD, USB)

TORRENTS:
32bit Torrent from here - linux-lite-2.4-beta-32bit.iso.torrent
Hash: 3ead6e5f39d69e296adefa2f7927f6a6830377e5
Size: 753mb (DVD, USB)

64bit Torrent from here - linux-lite-2.4-beta-64bit.iso.torrent
Hash: 05cadd6dad9f23af8fe2806305da6e47d9e25013
Size: 753mb (DVD, USB)

Live USB/DVD/VirtualBox/Vmware:

Login is automatic, no credentials required. The image can be written to a 2gb or larger USB stick, or a writable DVD. Alternatively, you can use the dd command: sudo dd if=linux-lite-2.4-beta-xxbit.iso of=/dev/sdx bs=4M where 'x' is the letter of your usb stick. In linux to find out the letter of your usb stick, open a terminal and type: df -h It is usually listed as 'media' or similar. Please see the built in Help Manual if you require a more detailed explanation of this procedure.

All Ubuntu 32bit kernels these days ship with PAE.

Minimum Recommended Specs:
700MHz processor
512mb ram
VGA screen capable of 1024x768 resolution
DVD drive or USB port for the ISO image

Preferred Specs:
1.5GHz processor+
1024mb ram+
VGA, DVI or HDMI screen capable of 1366x768 resolution+
DVD drive or USB port for the ISO image

Login to the live desktop is automatic.

The first thing you MUST do after a fresh install of Linux Lite is run Menu, Favorites, Install Updates.

As this is a beta release, there are bound to be bugs etc. Please help make the final stable for other people by participating in this Beta. Please report any bugs in this thread.

Screenshots:

[img height=600 width=800]http://i.imgur.com/UuAqmK4.png[/img]

[img height=600 width=800]http://i.imgur.com/PFhWRin.png[/img]

[img height=600 width=800]http://i.imgur.com/NLnzdka.png[/img]

[img height=593 width=800]http://i.imgur.com/fRfQxBm.png[/img]

[img height=600 width=800]http://i.imgur.com/fBrZCXQ.png[/img]

[img height=600 width=800]http://i.imgur.com/Cy1Dp0e.png[/img]

[img height=593 width=800]http://i.imgur.com/QaqlnkY.png[/img]

Thank you. Jerry

Hello everybody, I'm new around here but I'm not new to LL. I have used LL a lot, I have installed on several computers(I put it on my Mom's desktop along with Windows 7 and she never looked back ), overall I think is a great Linux distro(imo). Enough with the introduction, I'm here because I'm having problem with my ASUS notebook (It came with windows 8.1). I can boot and have successfully being able to install Ubuntu, xubuntu,lubuntu, Mint on it(not all of them at the same time) but for reason I can't even manage to boot LL. from a USB. I really like this OS.(as I mentioned above) and it is driving me nuts the fact that I can't even boot it from a live USB. I have a 5 years old HP-Pavilion dv7 and it just works, it's insane that I can't accomplish the same thing with my less than a year old notebook. Any help would be appreciated!  

Hello Linux Lite Devs

I'm pointing out an issue that would be nice if it where fixed int the current LL 2.2 as well as in the next one.

Since in the current and next one light-locker seems to be installed. I found and am experiencing this bug : Invisible cursor after resume from suspend https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sourc...ug/1297144

My assumption is that this should be also reported to the XFCE devs maybe?

This needs to be addressed for sure. Hope someone has time for it.

Hi,


This did go quietly by...
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Given Tokyo-High-Power heritage & quality I can only assume BaoFeng bought it for the expertise & IP
Looks like the there could be some interesting(cheap) products in the pipeline.
It will be interesting to see how Kenwood, Yaesu and ICOM will react.?


73 - Dave - G8LIY