Linux Lite 2.2 Beta Released

[altman]

Point understood , we ll have to wait on that . Well , I don t feel like doing a reinstall on my side , with all the stuff I either installed/removed .

Right, that's my concern too. Even on LL's web site it says it only needs to be installed once every 5 years. However, that's possibly misleading considering the user may be missing out on important LL specific patches to fix bugs with their own software. Again, hopefully I'm missing something.

Yep , I think there might be some way around these issues , maybe with LL Uddater or Upgrader , or LL installer , maybe someone will gives us a hand on that .

[Mike]

Point understood , we ll have to wait on that . Well , I don t feel like doing a reinstall on my side , with all the stuff I either installed/removed .

Right, that's my concern too. Even on LL's web site it says it only needs to be installed once every 5 years. However, that's possibly misleading considering the user may be missing out on important LL specific patches to fix bugs with their own software. Again, hopefully I'm missing something.

[altman]

Point understood , we ll have to wait on that . Well , I don t feel like doing a reinstall on my side , with all the stuff I either installed/removed .

[Mike]

Per LL's web site: Linux Lite is based on the Ubuntu LTS series of releases. However, it doesn't feel very LTS considering the need to do fresh installs. This is why I was hoping to get clarification.

[altman]

Oops , sorry mate , it s Ubuntu that s LTS . my bad , I guess I ll stick with LL 2.2 Beta , not much issues up to now , I need to remember not to Drag & Drop .

[Mike]

LL s a Rolling Release mate , you don t need to reinstall , just do the updates . Unless you want a clean install every times . More work .

Not based on what Jerry's original post says:

"There is no upgrade process from one Linux Lite version to the next because of all the in-between modifications"

[altman]

LL s a Rolling Release mate , you don t need to reinstall , just do the updates . Unless you want a clean install every times . More work .

[Mike]

Sorry if this has been mentioned elsewhere, but will the final point releases be available the update tool or do we need to do fresh installs?

Edit: Nevermind, I missed it in the OP.

So I guess my next question is, depending on the frequency of the releases, are users expected to do fresh installs multiple times per year to get the latest and greatest? It seems like a lot of work to customize the OS to your liking just to have to reinstall a couple of months later. Hopefully I'm misunderstanding this.

[gold_finger]

How it all going folks? For those that are testing, have you found any quirks, anomalies, bugs?

Have been running LL 2.2 Beta on old system (shown below) for about a week.  Runs impressively well on this P4 with only 512MB of RAM....

However, today I tried to run the "Install Updates" and it seems to stall out and not get past a certain point --  it gets stuck at "100% [waiting for headers]" line....
 
Anyone else experiencing this?  Or have any idea why it's happening?

P.s.  Just tried out on main computer running LL 2.0 and same thing happens.  Have a feeling that it's just a temporary problem with the download servers.

Turned out to just be server problem.  Everything back to normal and working now.

[altman]

It crashes ( relog or unlog ) on Drag & Drops operations  , aside from that , it s just right .

I add/removed some apps , & it s my tastes . Keep it on Team .

[Jerry]

It's a server issue, was lagging here all day yesterday.

[Scott]

Hi Bill,

Install Updates just ran fine for me. I'd bet that it's a server issue. The only thing I can think of is the update server selection.

[gold_finger]

How it all going folks? For those that are testing, have you found any quirks, anomalies, bugs?

Have been running LL 2.2 Beta on old system (shown below) for about a week.  Runs impressively well on this P4 with only 512MB of RAM.  Firefox definitely hogs memory and occationally causes some lagging, but that's to be expected in this case.  Installed Midori browser and that is noticeably less resource hungry.  (My first experience with Midori.  Not bad, but I still prefer Firefox.)

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System:    Host: Micron Kernel: 3.13.0-24-generic i686 (32 bit, gcc: 4.8.2)
           Desktop: Xfce 4.11.6 (Gtk 2.24.23) Distro: Ubuntu 14.04 trusty
Machine:   System: micronpc.com product: N/A
           Mobo: ASUSTeK model: P4PE version: REV 1.xx Bios: Award version: ASUS P4PE-MPC 1001 date: 11/06/2002
CPU:       Single core Intel Pentium 4 CPU (-UP-) cache: 512 KB flags: (pae sse sse2) bmips: 5078.66 clocked at 2539.333 MHz
Graphics:  Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] RV360 [Radeon 9600/X1050 Series] bus-ID: 01:00.0
           X.Org: 1.15.1 drivers: ati,radeon (unloaded: fbdev,vesa) Resolution: [email protected]
           GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on ATI RV350 GLX Version: 2.1 Mesa 10.1.3 Direct Rendering: Yes
Audio:     Card: Intel 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller
           driver: snd_intel8x0 ports: 8800 8400 bus-ID: 00:1f.5
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture ver: k3.13.0-24-generic
Network:   Card: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5702X Gigabit Ethernet driver: tg3 ver: 3.134 bus-ID: 02:05.0
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 30.8GB (14.2% used) 1: id: /dev/sda model: Maxtor_6E030L0 size: 30.8GB
Partition: ID: / size: 28G used: 4.1G (16%) fs: ext4 ID: swap-1 size: 0.54GB used: 0.07GB (14%) fs: swap
RAID:      No RAID devices detected - /proc/mdstat and md_mod kernel raid module present
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 34.0C mobo: 33.8C
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info:      Processes: 139 Uptime: 2:54 Memory: 336.3/495.3MB Runlevel: 2 Gcc sys: 4.8.2
           Client: Shell (bash 4.3.11) inxi: 1.9.17
However, today I tried to run the "Install Updates" and it seems to stall out and not get past a certain point --  it gets stuck at "100% [waiting for headers]" line shown at bottom of below code output.

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**********************
Linux Lite 2.0 Updates
**********************

Linux Lite will now search for updates for your computer.
Once installed, your computer will be up to date.
Simply follow the onscreen instructions.

Please enter your password to continue...


[sudo] password for bill:
Ign http://ubuntu.securedservers.com trusty InRelease
Hit http://repo.steampowered.com precise InRelease                             
Ign http://dl.google.com stable InRelease                                     
Get:1 http://repo.linuxliteos.com beryl InRelease [2,114 B]                   
Ign http://ubuntu.securedservers.com trusty-updates InRelease                 
Ign http://dl.google.com stable InRelease                                     
Ign http://ubuntu.securedservers.com trusty-backports InRelease               
Hit http://dl.google.com stable Release.gpg                                   
Ign http://ubuntu.securedservers.com trusty-security InRelease                 
Hit http://repo.steampowered.com precise/steam Sources                         
Ign http://archive.canonical.com trusty InRelease                             
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net trusty InRelease                                 
Hit http://dl.google.com stable Release.gpg                                   
Get:2 http://repo.linuxliteos.com beryl/main i386 Packages [4,943 B]           
Hit http://ubuntu.securedservers.com trusty Release.gpg                       
Get:3 http://ubuntu.securedservers.com trusty-updates Release.gpg [933 B]     
Hit http://repo.steampowered.com precise/steam amd64 Packages                 
Hit http://dl.google.com stable Release                                       
Hit http://ubuntu.securedservers.com trusty-backports Release.gpg             
Hit http://dl.google.com stable Release                                       
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net trusty InRelease                                 
Hit http://archive.canonical.com trusty Release.gpg                           
Hit http://repo.steampowered.com precise/steam i386 Packages                   
Hit http://dl.google.com stable/main i386 Packages                             
Get:4 http://ubuntu.securedservers.com trusty-security Release.gpg [933 B]     
Hit http://ubuntu.securedservers.com trusty Release                           
Hit http://archive.canonical.com trusty Release                               
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net trusty InRelease                                 
Get:5 http://ubuntu.securedservers.com trusty-updates Release [62.0 kB]       
Hit http://dl.google.com stable/main i386 Packages                             
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net trusty InRelease                                 
Hit http://ubuntu.securedservers.com trusty-backports Release                 
Hit http://archive.canonical.com trusty/partner i386 Packages                 
Get:6 http://ubuntu.securedservers.com trusty-security Release [62.0 kB]       
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net trusty InRelease                                 
Ign http://repo.linuxliteos.com beryl/main Translation-en_US                   
Ign http://repo.linuxliteos.com beryl/main Translation-en                     
Hit http://archive.canonical.com trusty/partner Translation-en                 
Hit http://ubuntu.securedservers.com trusty/main Sources                       
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net trusty InRelease                                 
Hit http://ubuntu.securedservers.com trusty/restricted Sources                 
Hit http://ubuntu.securedservers.com trusty/universe Sources                   
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net trusty Release.gpg                               
Hit http://ubuntu.securedservers.com trusty/multiverse Sources                 
Hit http://ubuntu.securedservers.com trusty/main i386 Packages                 
Hit http://ubuntu.securedservers.com trusty/restricted i386 Packages           
Get:7 http://ppa.launchpad.net trusty Release.gpg [316 B]                     
Hit http://ubuntu.securedservers.com trusty/universe i386 Packages             
Hit http://ubuntu.securedservers.com trusty/multiverse i386 Packages           
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net trusty Release.gpg                               
Hit http://ubuntu.securedservers.com trusty/main Translation-en               
Ign http://dl.google.com stable/main Translation-en_US                         
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net trusty Release.gpg                               
Ign http://dl.google.com stable/main Translation-en                           
Hit http://ubuntu.securedservers.com trusty/multiverse Translation-en         
Ign http://dl.google.com stable/main Translation-en_US                         
Ign http://dl.google.com stable/main Translation-en                           
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net trusty Release.gpg                               
Hit http://ubuntu.securedservers.com trusty/restricted Translation-en         
Hit http://ubuntu.securedservers.com trusty/universe Translation-en           
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net trusty Release.gpg                               
Get:8 http://ubuntu.securedservers.com trusty-updates/main Sources [142 kB]   
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net trusty Release                                   
Get:9 http://ubuntu.securedservers.com trusty-updates/restricted Sources [1,408 B]
Get:10 http://ppa.launchpad.net trusty Release [15.1 kB]                       
Get:11 http://ubuntu.securedservers.com trusty-updates/universe Sources [91.8 kB]
Get:12 http://ubuntu.securedservers.com trusty-updates/multiverse Sources [3,536 B]
Get:13 http://ubuntu.securedservers.com trusty-updates/main i386 Packages [360 kB]
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net trusty Release                                   
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net trusty Release                                   
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net trusty Release                                   
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net trusty Release                                   
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net trusty/main i386 Packages                         
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net trusty/main Translation-en                       
Get:14 http://ppa.launchpad.net trusty/main i386 Packages [28.1 kB]           
Get:15 http://ppa.launchpad.net trusty/main Translation-en [10.4 kB]           
Get:16 http://ubuntu.securedservers.com trusty-updates/restricted i386 Packages [5,820 B]
Get:17 http://ubuntu.securedservers.com trusty-updates/universe i386 Packages [221 kB]
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net trusty/main i386 Packages                         
Get:18 http://ubuntu.securedservers.com trusty-updates/multiverse i386 Packages [9,532 B]
Get:19 http://ubuntu.securedservers.com trusty-updates/main Translation-en [168 kB]
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net trusty/main i386 Packages                         
Hit http://ubuntu.securedservers.com trusty-updates/multiverse Translation-en 
Hit http://ubuntu.securedservers.com trusty-updates/restricted Translation-en 
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net trusty/main Translation-en                       
Get:20 http://ubuntu.securedservers.com trusty-updates/universe Translation-en [111 kB]
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net trusty/main i386 Packages                         
Hit http://ubuntu.securedservers.com trusty-backports/main Sources             
Hit http://ubuntu.securedservers.com trusty-backports/restricted Sources       
Hit http://ubuntu.securedservers.com trusty-backports/universe Sources         
Hit http://ubuntu.securedservers.com trusty-backports/multiverse Sources       
Hit http://ubuntu.securedservers.com trusty-backports/main i386 Packages       
Hit http://ubuntu.securedservers.com trusty-backports/restricted i386 Packages
Hit http://ubuntu.securedservers.com trusty-backports/universe i386 Packages   
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net trusty/main i386 Packages                         
Hit http://ubuntu.securedservers.com trusty-backports/multiverse i386 Packages
Hit http://ubuntu.securedservers.com trusty-backports/main Translation-en     
Hit http://ppa.launchpad.net trusty/main Translation-en                       
Hit http://ubuntu.securedservers.com trusty-backports/multiverse Translation-en
Hit http://ubuntu.securedservers.com trusty-backports/restricted Translation-en
Hit http://ubuntu.securedservers.com trusty-backports/universe Translation-en 
Get:21 http://ubuntu.securedservers.com trusty-security/main Sources [51.5 kB]
Get:22 http://ubuntu.securedservers.com trusty-security/restricted Sources [14 B]
Get:23 http://ubuntu.securedservers.com trusty-security/universe Sources [17.4 kB]
Get:24 http://ubuntu.securedservers.com trusty-security/multiverse Sources [702 B]
Get:25 http://ubuntu.securedservers.com trusty-security/main i386 Packages [154 kB]
Get:26 http://ubuntu.securedservers.com trusty-security/restricted i386 Packages [14 B]
Get:27 http://ubuntu.securedservers.com trusty-security/universe i386 Packages [72.6 kB]
Get:28 http://ubuntu.securedservers.com trusty-security/multiverse i386 Packages [1,401 B]
Get:29 http://ubuntu.securedservers.com trusty-security/main Translation-en [79.3 kB]
Hit http://ubuntu.securedservers.com trusty-security/multiverse Translation-en
Hit http://ubuntu.securedservers.com trusty-security/restricted Translation-en
Get:30 http://ubuntu.securedservers.com trusty-security/universe Translation-en [39.6 kB]
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net trusty/main Translation-en_US                     
Ign http://ubuntu.securedservers.com trusty/main Translation-en_US             
Ign http://ubuntu.securedservers.com trusty/multiverse Translation-en_US       
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net trusty/main Translation-en                       
Ign http://ubuntu.securedservers.com trusty/restricted Translation-en_US       
Ign http://ubuntu.securedservers.com trusty/universe Translation-en_US         
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net trusty/main Translation-en_US                     
Ign http://ppa.launchpad.net trusty/main Translation-en                       
100% [Waiting for headers] 

Anyone else experiencing this?  Or have any idea why it's happening?

P.s.  Just tried out on main computer running LL 2.0 and same thing happens.  Have a feeling that it's just a temporary problem with the download servers.

[mdavies5]

Hi Misko,
This doesn't work for me I followed your instructions to the letter and I am experienced in writing desktop files but no joy. I can put a launcher in any menu category to use it as a stand-alone function but cannot get it into the Settings Manager.

[iwar]

so when is release date? /ivar