Hi

The "one gig" is the memory on the machine, the install was on an 8 gig Sandisk usb.
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I have a widescreen t.v. that I use for "morning coffee, check the mail, calendar and rss feeds".

I also use it as a "music server" in that I normally listen to SOMA fm  orrr....one of my, as with most Linux people, HUGE collection of cds.

I use the old "gyration" "airmouse" and small form factor keyboard so that I don't have to "have the mouse on a pad".

I do this so that I can stand up, while drinking some tea or coffee and going back and forth to the kitchen to make breakfast etc.

I find it rather "refreshing" to not have to "sit down at a terminal" to do stuff, I can wander over to the door and take a look out at the river by the apartment complex, etc.

I am a very BIG fan of Kubuntu, and it has been my work machine for lo these many years, but, well,

a) Kubuntu works great but I really did just want something ......."differnt" on the screen and also...

I started using the whole Kontact PIM, but, hey........it has all moved to the SMARTPHONE!! lol........ my, my how things have changed....yes, if I need to do serious business on e-mail, calendaring, etc. I go to the Kubu machine but this is well, early morning stuff! lol

b) If anyone knows my history, I've donated hundreds of machines with Linux on them and always had to get by with squeezing the most out of the least as it were.

So......as a lark, I thought I try to find

i) a good looking distro in terms of viewing on a large screen from usually ten feet away or so,
ii) a distro that was "keeping itself up to date".
iii) that had......well.......... a different "flair".
iv)....... was......going back to my roots......able to be made "small" or "small in and of itself".

My first thought was TinyMe because of the size and also the particular way that the icon set was arranged, etc. it was on a .... 6.4 gig...lol......and it worked.....but it was waay out of date, I did not know that the original developer had moved on, and it wouldn't play a .pls file..so I could not enable repos etc.

So, I started looking around and discovered a distro which I had not seen before...Linux Lite! :0

So, I downloaded the i386 and installed it on an 8gig usb drive using the "startup disk creator" app and it did fine.

a) the machine I use for the t.v. has a great video processor on it but it is old..., a Gateway that has more usb ports, and ssd ports, and you name it ports. so if I want to view images on cards that I took while scuba diving etc...

The machine started with all of the older, white text on black information and then stalled at "insert bootable dvd".

So, since I'm a hardware kinda guy.........  

i removed the usb drive and reinserted it and guess what.........Linux Lite ......"perceived" that a.....DVD had been put in a tray and away it went!

Again.......an old machine...

It took about two minutes to load.

YOU GUYS DID THE RIGHT THING........recommended that I update first thing......

ummmm wrong first thing to do on THIS particular install! lol

It "updated" ..........took about a HALF HOUR...............

restarted but......could not get on the net because of "no disk space"........lol............

So......I reinstalled it......

and instead of updating........

i removed Libre Office and GIMP and then updated.........and things are going swimmingly!

I even have the blue backgroud with the feather on it! lol

Hey ............

I ) The distro has a certain "crispness" to the appearance which I, personally, like.
II ) In terms of the old teacher in me I just LOVE......LOVE.......LOVE.........the VERBOSE DESCRIPTIONS........ of what the apps etc. do.......

I, PERSONALLY, think that this is ABSOLUTELY what is needed to introduce the new person from Windblows to Linux........

Great job devs!

woodsmoke

Hi all;
I apologize up front for the question but the Hardware database I found liists only relatively few computers.

Is there a hardware database that can be queried?

For example search for "RTL8187" to see if there are drivers anywhere for either a Realtek RTL8187B or the RTL8187SE wireless laptop adapters?

I have a Gateway M-1617 (model W650A) laptop and LL does not detect the wireless NIC. Ethernet is working perfectly and, as I expected, Gateway is more of a problem  than help.

TIA in advance
Eike
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New at lite 2.2
I have a few problems with my installation where my screen freezes after a shorter or longer time after start up
If I restart the PC hardware start up with a black screen and find it difficult to turn off or restart
I have attached the system report , there is something I need to install or configure ?

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I noticed that we had a new "users on-line" record @ 65:


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I don't know if this is a  bug or if it is a hardware issue on my end. It does not occur all the time but, sometimes when I right click on stuff like a url in the browser it will auto select the option that is under the pointer when the menu pops up. I at first thought this was a glitch with FF but this morning it happened in the file manager while I was looking at files on my backup external hard drive and deleted an entire folder. I restored the folder from the trash, but I thought it should be brought to the team's attention.

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Hi,
I've been using ubuntu and derivatives for some years but am very low on the learning curve none-the-less.
I recently found some email messages and documents opening as a series of squares and suspect the font settings. I downloaded and installed apple fonts (already have ms fonts) to try and fix this but it hasn't.

Perhaps it is something obvious. but documents I have made in the past are not displaying correctly in leafpad. If I change the font to wingdings or some others it reads in the preview but Times New Roman and other common fonts dont.

I resoved the issue in my email by unchecking the allow messages to use other fonts box in advanced display settings of thunderbird.
I've never fully understood what character encoding is but wonder if it is that. The problem is that I dont see a system wide setting for that.

Hello all,
I would like to thank the team of developers for such a nice operating system.  I have only been using Linux for a couple of years, and have tried more than a few distros.  I started with Ubuntu 12.04, but was never satisfied with Unity, so I tried Debian, Slitaz, Zorin and others and found most of them to be very unfriendly to new users, the ones that were more friendly just didn't have the feel I was looking for. I have been using LL since 2.0 and just recently upgraded to 2.2. One of the things I love about LL is that it is easy on old hardware. I am currently running it on an old Acer Aspire One AOA150 that i got in 2009 with 1GB ram. LL works great I have even been able to run Virtualbox on it with xp to run some of my old go to win programs. The team is doing a great job, keep up the good work.

As you may have already or seen on You Tube, Elementary OS wants you to donate to download their distro http://http://blog.elementaryos.org/post...0/payments.  :o

I have distro hopped looking for the distro for me. Some I downloaded and liked. Some I could not even install because of no automatic partitioning. I stopped using a rolling release after GUI updater broke. I am still using Linux Lite that I started using in January last year after trying the rolling release for about a month. I still watch and read reviews and download distros to see what they look like and to try find a backup in case my chosen distro, Linux Lite is ever discontinued.  :'(

I have donated to Linux Lite after using awhile and probably will again.   I would not "donate" just to try a distro out whether I installed it or just tried it on the live DVD/CD.

I won't buy a car without a test drive either.  ;D

Searching for Suckit rootkit...                            Warning: /sbin/init INFECTED

, on chkrootkit commands in Terminal , wonder how come & if it s a false positive .