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Title: Linux Lite 3.4 Final Released
Post by: Jerry on March 31, 2017, 07:34:00 AM
Release Announcement

Linux Lite 3.4 Final is now available for download. Linux Lite continues its focus on Security by providing our latest application, Lite Updates Notify. This application is a desktop notification that informs the user of all available updates. You can set Update reminders anywhere from once every hour to once every 3 weeks. Continuing our focus on Security, Lite Welcome has a fresh new look, reminding you after a fresh install of Linux Lite to - Install Updates, Install Drivers and Set a Restore Point. This release also brings 4 new features to Lite Tweaks, Hibernate & Suspend, Login & Logout Options, Manage Save Sessions and zRam. With Hibernate & Suspend, you can select whether or not to show these options on the Logout screen. The Login & Logout Options feature allows the administrator to enable or disable Login & Logout window options. These 2 new features are particularly useful for multi user set ups. zRam is a compressed RAM block device for faster I/O and is perfect for older computers. Also in this release we've included lots of updates to our Lite packages, as well as the usual fixes from the 3.4 Beta.

Presenting Linux Lite 3.4 Final

(http://i.imgur.com/DD123Fc.png)

Lite Updates Notify - A new application for Linux Lite. Lite Updates Notify is a desktop notification that informs the user of all available updates. Menu, Favorites, Install Updates should be run before executing Lite Updates Notify for the first time. A HUGE thank you to Ralphy for his collaboration on this challenging application.

1. Menu, Settings, Lite Updates Notify.

(http://i.imgur.com/Sm0yo9e.png)

2. Select a notification frequency.

(http://i.imgur.com/KyWx61o.png)

3. When you receive your desktop notification, you will get either of two messages:

(http://i.imgur.com/TCJ4EtU.png)

(http://i.imgur.com/tXSgHZr.png)

This is a notification only. Go to Menu, Favorites, Install Updates if the notification says you have updates to install. This is an optional application, you do not have to use it if you don't want to and it is disabled by default. Please be aware that if there are no Updates, you will only get the 'Your system is up to date' message once, until such a time where Updates become available again.

To set the above Notification theme, go to Menu, Settings, Notifications. Select the theme 'Default'.

16.04.2 Base - Linux Lite 3.4 is based off 16.04.2, however, we do not include the 4.8 kernel Hardware Enablement Stack. The HWE stacks were never meant to be supported for the entire life of the LTS release. In the past, support has been limited between HWE releases. I prefer to offer people the option to switch to one of our custom kernels should you require newer hardware support, not forcefully impose a newer kernel where it is not necessary or where it may drop support for older hardware.

Lite Welcome - Has been improved by recommending people follow a basic 3 step post-install process. Install Updates > Install Drivers > Setting a Restore Point.

(http://i.imgur.com/efeovZP.png)

(http://i.imgur.com/4sWPrdD.png)

Window snapping by default - Dragging windows to the corners and snapping windows which is a feature familiar to Windows users, is now available in Linux Lite 3.4 Thank you to torreydale and others for this suggestion.

(http://i.imgur.com/LudC5Zm.gif)

Lite Tweaks - Added zRam feature - zRam is a compressed RAM block device for faster I/O. Perfect for older computers. Added Login & Logout Tweaks feature - enable or disable Login window options. Useful for multi user set ups. There will be updates to this feature following the release of 3.4 so look out for that. A huge thank you to Ralphy for these additions.

Hibernate, Suspend

Hide or show these buttons on the Logout screen.

Before:

(http://i.imgur.com/XRKwZXl.png)

After:

(http://i.imgur.com/LPEbM99.png)

Login & Logout Options

(http://i.imgur.com/LjScYW8.png)

(http://i.imgur.com/1w1Dmab.png)

Login Screen Power Options, before:

(http://i.imgur.com/mpYKKef.png)

Login Screen Power Options, after:

(http://i.imgur.com/EDrWE9K.png)

Log Out Screen Options, before:

(http://i.imgur.com/GlgizBh.png)

Log Out Screen Options, after:

(http://i.imgur.com/TfqGYMc.png)

Manage Save Session

Show or hide the 'Save session for future logins' feature on the Logout dialogue.

zRam

(http://i.imgur.com/O4G18aE.png)

(http://i.imgur.com/oy0iTo5.png)

(http://i.imgur.com/sfHhKSn.png)

(http://i.imgur.com/BtBJHte.png)

Joystick support - New in Linux Lite, better support for joysticks.

Netflix - Now natively supported in Firefox. Just go to www.netflix.com (http://www.netflix.com) (we have already enabled DRM for you).

Changelog:

Kernel 4.4.0-70 (custom kernels are also available via our Repository for versions 3.13 - 4.10)
Firefox 52.0.1
Thunderbird 45.7.0
LibreOffice 5.1.6.2
VLC - 2.2.2
Gimp 2.8.20
Netflix - native support now in Firefox
Lite Help Manual - added how to switch repositories tutorial
Execute bash scripts - double click on bash scripts to run them
Desktop Notifications theme now set to Default
2 new Wallpapers, Fireworks, Waterfalls (community chosen)
Base: 16.04.2

Upgrading

> Menu, Favorites, Install Updates (you must reboot if asked to, otherwise continue to the next step)
> Menu, Settings, Lite Upgrade


Lite Upgrade - What it will do:

- Lite Desktop Widget user display improvement
- New Lite Welcome
- New Lite Tweaks
- New Lite Help Manual
- New Lite Software
- Newest Arc Theme
- New Wallpapers
- Clearer Terminal font
- Desktop Notifications theme now set to Default
- Bug fixes, enhancements
- Back up your existing config files to: /home/user/.llupgradebackup/3.2/

Lite Upgrade - What it won't do:

- Execute bash scripts - double click on bash scripts to run them. Won't be enabled for multi-user setups (only enabled for Admin)
- Windows Snapping. Won't be enabled for multi-user setups (only enabled for Admin)

There is no upgrade path to or from Beta releases.
There is no upgrade path from Series 2 ( 2.0, 2.2, 2.4, 2.6, 2.8 ) to Series 3.

Developer credits for this release - Jerry Bezencon, Ralphy

Downloads:

HTTP:
Download 32bit from here - Linux Lite 3.4 Final 32bit (http://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxlite/files/3.4/linux-lite-3.4-32bit.iso/download)
md5sum: 4cca4626a72c8fe706724c7dbe2b2ca6
Size: 998mb (DVD, USB)

Download 64bit from here - Linux Lite 3.4 Final 64bit (http://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxlite/files/3.4/linux-lite-3.4-64bit.iso/download)
md5sum: b38eb27635bbbeb8473cf43713b2593e
Size: 986mb (DVD, USB)

TORRENTS:
32bit Torrent from here - linux-lite-3.4-32bit.iso.torrent (https://www.linuxliteos.com/torrent/linux-lite-3.4-32bit.iso.torrent)
Hash: 733d2c4108f786f4a3dec66c1f0d2625f045c21d
Size: 998mb (DVD, USB)

64bit Torrent from here - linux-lite-3.4-64bit.iso.torrent (https://www.linuxliteos.com/torrent/linux-lite-3.4-64bit.iso.torrent)
Hash: a683e4157c3f6f2adab5a15b23bb1f4425c91d84
Size: 986mb (DVD, USB)

INTERNATIONAL DOWNLOAD MIRRORS: https://www.linuxliteos.com/mirrors.php (https://www.linuxliteos.com/mirrors.php)

Yumi, Multiboot and other multi-boot applications are not supported.

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-3.4-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.

Farewell Windows Vista (April 11th, 2017)

(http://i.imgur.com/DfXQ2bh.jpg)

(http://i.imgur.com/j0cfybv.jpg)

Thank you :)
Jerry and the team.
Title: Re: Linux Lite 3.4 Final Released
Post by: ralphy on March 31, 2017, 07:53:07 AM
:) Tada!

And here is a one hour video to help you create Samba shares in Linux Lite to share files and folders in your network... for multiple users & different access permissions to the shares.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXcMxo6f1kA

Please, excuse my terrible editing. I'm not youtuber kinda fellow  ;D 
Title: Re: Linux Lite 3.4 Final Released
Post by: Ottawagrant on March 31, 2017, 08:06:08 AM
Thanks for adding zRam. Excellent option for older computers. Thank you for everyone's hard work. Being able to declutter logout of options I would never use is also great. Exactly what Linux Lite is all about. Easy to see why Linux Lite is becoming more popular. Let's hope Windows Vista enjoys its retirement. Maybe it can share a room at the home with WindowsME.
Title: Re: Linux Lite 3.4 Final Released
Post by: firenice03 on March 31, 2017, 08:15:49 AM
Kudos Jerry and team!!

I know what I'm doing this evening  ;D ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Linux Lite 3.4 Final Released
Post by: Jerry on March 31, 2017, 08:45:45 AM
Cheers folks, don't forget to update your Forum profiles if you upgrade to 3.4 :)
Title: Re: Linux Lite 3.4 Final Released
Post by: bfb on March 31, 2017, 08:47:34 AM
Installed the upgrade in 3 minutes including the preceding update of 3.2. Working smoothly. Thanks for your haed work and talent.
Title: Re: Linux Lite 3.4 Final Released
Post by: TMG1961 on March 31, 2017, 10:16:54 AM
Thanks Jerry and everyone in the team that made this possible.
Title: Re: Linux Lite 3.4 Final Released
Post by: newtusmaximus on March 31, 2017, 11:37:40 AM
upgrade from 3.2 to 3.4 64bit all ran smoothly.  Great job from the team, yet again. :) !!
Title: Re: Linux Lite 3.4 Final Released
Post by: Jocklad on March 31, 2017, 12:15:52 PM
Upgrade from LL3.2x64 to 3.4 no problems at all.

Many thanks to Jerry and the Team.

Donation sent  :)

Jocklad
Title: Re: Linux Lite 3.4 Final Released
Post by: Ottawagrant on March 31, 2017, 12:53:06 PM
After installing 3.4 on one computer I just finished installing & setting it up on my netbook. I knew that the zRam would improve the netbook, but I'm getting really good results. Cannot believe the speed that web browsers open/close, & that's even with add-on's installed. Going to install this later on a friends netbook that has Windows 7 Starter on it. Definitely has the wow factor. Lots of good stuff under the hood in this version of LL.
Title: SOLVED Re: Linux Lite 3.4 Final Released
Post by: newtusmaximus on March 31, 2017, 01:16:13 PM
Question.  Presume upgrade route is established for 3.2 32 bit.  Fuji laptop running on 3.2 32 bit with updates says it is the latest version when trying to upgrade.

UPDATE

Server must have been busy : upgrade procedure ran smoothly on 5th try. 
Title: Re: Linux Lite 3.4 Final Released
Post by: torreydale on March 31, 2017, 02:36:15 PM
Hip, hip, hooray!  ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Linux Lite 3.4 Final Released
Post by: penglezos on March 31, 2017, 03:05:35 PM
Just finished the upgrade from LL 3.2 to 3.4 and I would like to thank all the people who contributed for this awesome release!! The only problem found is that on 3.2 my ram on boot was around 300-400mb with no apps opened now its 900+mb and with opera open 1gb+ .. I hope this issue would be solved!
Title: Re: Linux Lite 3.4 Final Released
Post by: TMG1961 on March 31, 2017, 03:11:27 PM
I also noticed that the ram usage on 3.4 is higher then on 3.2.
Title: Re: Linux Lite 3.4 Final Released
Post by: firenice03 on March 31, 2017, 06:26:09 PM
64-bit box (boys pc) upgraded from 3.2 to 3.4..

Ran updates in 3.2
Lite Upgrade to 3.4
From Welcome Screen
- Rechecked updates (none)
- Checked drivers (none)
- Restore Point being created as I type...

Smooth thus far...
Title: Re: Linux Lite 3.4 Final Released
Post by: tek10 on March 31, 2017, 10:54:09 PM
Replaced 2.8 with a fresh install of 3.4. With a separate /home partition, most of my settings and all my data were kept as I wanted. I'd been playing with a 3.2 virtual machine for sometime, as well as a hard install of the 3.4 beta on some older hardware, so I had notes on all the changes I wanted to make. The whole process went smoothly and took less than two hours. Everything appears to be working well.

Thanks to all for the great system!
Title: Re: Linux Lite 3.4 Final Released
Post by: bitsnpcs on April 01, 2017, 12:41:57 AM
Congrats on the latest release LL team. :)
Title: Re: Linux Lite 3.4 Final Released (swappiness)
Post by: humdinger70 on April 01, 2017, 01:07:46 PM
When you upgrade to 3.4, you may find your system starting to use more swap again. That's because it may have reset the 'vm.swappiness' value back to the default value of 60. If you got lots of RAM, suggest you change it back to a low value (like 10).

Do a 'cat /proc/sys/vm/swappiness' from a terminal to check its value.
Title: Re: Linux Lite 3.4 Final Released
Post by: Ottawagrant on April 01, 2017, 05:03:45 PM
To humdinger70: thanks for tip. Installed LL 3.4 on an extra machine that has 8gb ram. As you said, swappiness was 60 & I changed it to 10. Thanks again.
Title: Re: Linux Lite 3.4 Final Released (swappiness)
Post by: penglezos on April 02, 2017, 08:25:46 AM
When you upgrade to 3.4, you may find your system starting to use more swap again. That's because it may have reset the 'vm.swappiness' value back to the default value of 60. If you got lots of RAM, suggest you change it back to a low value (like 10).

Do a 'cat /proc/sys/vm/swappiness' from a terminal to check its value.

Thanks for the tip! But the issue still exists! Changed the swap value to 10 on my laptop and still have 900mb-1gb ram usage!  :-[
Title: Re: Linux Lite 3.4 Final Released
Post by: Jerry on April 02, 2017, 08:29:32 AM
Open Task Manager, sort by size, what are the top ram uses?

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Title: Re: Linux Lite 3.4 Final Released
Post by: penglezos on April 02, 2017, 08:37:53 AM
Open Task Manager, sort by size, what are the top ram uses?

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Thanks for your reply Jerry!!

Here are some screenshots (The first one with Opera open 1200mb usage)

(http://i.imgur.com/GSpvsbB.png)

And the second one with no app open

(http://i.imgur.com/vM3AdTO.png)

I hope that it helps!
Title: Re: Linux Lite 3.4 Final Released
Post by: Jerry on April 02, 2017, 08:44:20 AM
Close absolutely every single application that is open. Then open Lite Tweaks, Clear Memory. Then report total memory usage in Resource Usage.

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Title: Re: Linux Lite 3.4 Final Released
Post by: penglezos on April 02, 2017, 08:47:38 AM
Close absolutely every single application that is open. Then open Lite Tweaks, Clear Memory. Then report total memory usage in Resource Usage.

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(http://i.imgur.com/Ek6pdXv.png)

Done every step, there you go!
Title: Re: Linux Lite 3.4 Final Released
Post by: Jerry on April 02, 2017, 08:51:59 AM
You're running a web server? I see apache running. I see clamav running too just to name a few. No issue here, you're just running a lot of of things in the background that you've installed. Also be weary of web browsers that claim to be fast. The trade off is that they are memory hogs.

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Title: Re: Linux Lite 3.4 Final Released
Post by: penglezos on April 02, 2017, 08:55:37 AM
You're running a web server? I see apache running. I see clamav running too just to name a few. No issue here, you're just running a lot of of things in the background that you've installed. Also be weary of web browsers that claim to be fast. The trade off is that they are memory hogs.

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It's a test web server (probably forgot to switch it completely off -_-). Already had that applications on 3.2 (i upgraded) and no ram issues thats why it seemed strange to me! I'm going to uninstall some applications to see whats going on! Thanks for your tips, have a good one!
Title: Re: Linux Lite 3.4 Final Released
Post by: zygmunto on April 02, 2017, 12:32:03 PM
All works fine,as usually.Thank you LL Team.
Title: Re: Linux Lite 3.4 Final Released
Post by: tek10 on April 02, 2017, 09:52:22 PM
3.4 is working great for me but Lite Desktop Widget is totally missing. Menu, Settings, Session and Startup, Application Autostart doesn't list it. Menu search shows nothing and Synaptic doesn't list it. Can you provide any info?
As mentioned earlier, this was a new install over 2.8 and not an upgrade from 3.2.
Title: Re: Linux Lite 3.4 Final Released
Post by: ralphy on April 02, 2017, 10:33:48 PM
3.4 is working great for me but Lite Desktop Widget is totally missing. Menu, Settings, Session and Startup, Application Autostart doesn't list it. Menu search shows nothing and Synaptic doesn't list it. Can you provide any info?
As mentioned earlier, this was a new install over 2.8 and not an upgrade from 3.2.

Hmmm... you can manually add it then:

Menu, Settings, Session and Startup, Application Autostart, +Add

Name: Lite Desktop Widget
Description: Display system information on the Desktop
Command: bash -c "sleep 5; ~/.conky/start"
Title: Re: Linux Lite 3.4 Final Released
Post by: Jerry on April 03, 2017, 03:56:35 AM
Upgrade from LL3.2x64 to 3.4 no problems at all.

Many thanks to Jerry and the Team.

Donation sent  :)

Jocklad

Cheers Jocklad :)
Title: Re: Linux Lite 3.4 Final Released
Post by: paul1149 on April 04, 2017, 10:03:51 PM
I just upgraded a Lenovo S10 netbook that was struggling to breathe even on 3.2. I must say the performance is notably better. Whether that's the inherent code or the new ram drive, I don't know, but videos on Chromium play perfectly now. Great job.

One suggestion: I love the Welcome screen, both the idea and the way it's implemented, but I think the check marks on the left column items is confusing, as it gives the impression that the tasks are completed.
Title: Re: Linux Lite 3.4 Final Released
Post by: banko on April 06, 2017, 02:15:49 AM
I've upgraded last Sunday and have given 3.4 a good workout, on the things I use.
I do a lot of post processing and darktable and RawTherapee both seem to run faster, with no problems  :)
I haven't delved into the inner workings yet, when I do, 'if' I find a problem I will let you know.

So a big thanks to all involved  :) :) :)

Keith.
Title: Re: Linux Lite 3.4 Final Released
Post by: torreydale on April 06, 2017, 09:38:39 AM
@paul1149,

Two things.  If you upgrade your main computer to LL 3.4, please update your forum profile to reflect that.  Secondly, by videos in Chromium playing better, are you referring to YouTube videos or something else?
Title: Re: Linux Lite 3.4 Final Released
Post by: paul1149 on April 06, 2017, 09:41:32 AM
@torreydale , that wasn't my machine, but I have updated now.

Yes, that was youtube, which had been a problem on the netbook.
Title: Re: Linux Lite 3.4 Final Released
Post by: torreydale on April 06, 2017, 10:06:37 AM
@paul1149,
Good to know.  I can think of someone's machine I'd like to try the zRam on, too.  YouTube issues, as well, on that one.
Title: Re: Linux Lite 3.4 Final Released
Post by: Hardcoretexan on June 13, 2017, 03:55:23 PM
I have LL 3.13.0-24 can I upgrade to the newest system, can I download and do an upgrade or new install.
Title: Re: Linux Lite 3.4 Final Released
Post by: firenice03 on June 13, 2017, 10:40:54 PM
**** See new thread ****
https://www.linuxliteos.com/forums/installing-linux-lite/linux-lite-upgrade/msg32930/?topicseen#msg32930




I have LL 3.13.0-24 can I upgrade to the newest system, can I download and do an upgrade or new install.
3.13.0-24 sounds like your kernel; yes that can be updated but depending on your system newer kernels are not always better. You'll want to be cautious.


To check LL version type in terminal (Ctrl + Alt + T) pressing enter after each command
Code: [Select]
cat /etc/llver
LL 3.4 is the most recent anything less can be upgraded if in the same series (3.1 can be upgraded to 3.4 - if 2.x series will require a new install)..


To check kernel version
Code: [Select]
uname -r
Title: Re: Linux Lite 3.4 Final Released
Post by: Derickam on July 01, 2017, 11:31:31 PM
I just did an upgrade to the latest version of Firefox, now it crashes every time I load it. In fact, Thunderbird and Chrome also crash on startup.
Anyone else having this issue?

Thanks in advance.
Title: Re: Linux Lite 3.4 Final Released
Post by: penglezos on July 03, 2017, 07:04:56 PM
I just did an upgrade to the latest version of Firefox, now it crashes every time I load it. In fact, Thunderbird and Chrome also crash on startup.
Anyone else having this issue?

Thanks in advance.
Dear Derickam,

Welcome to our community. I never experience any issue upgrading Firefox, Chrome or Thunderbird. Maybe you change any configuration on PPA repositories?

Please let me know,

penglezos