I'm not sure this is the correct sub-forum but here is the issue. I have a limited internet data plan and i would like to see exactly what is downloading and how much data it will use in real time, i would also like the option to pick and choose updates. Sometimes when i start my laptop and open my browser, a download of a size of 300mb starts to download, i cant see what this is. Ideally is like to be able to monitor every mb that linux lite downloads for updates/packages etc. I have moved from windows 7 and i am finding using this environment really refreshing however. Thanks.

I am running linux lite 4.6 inside virtualbox. The machine has two network interfaces. I face the issue where the machine isn't able to connect to the internet. After investigation I found the issue to be with my routing table. No idea why this routing table got persisted in the first place.

Based on suggestions in another thread I downloaded and am currently testing LL3.8 64 bit on a USB stick. Amazingly, LL was able to find my WIFI device and connect right away. This was the first major hurdle I expected because most of the other distros I tried couldn't connect; I am really pleased, and am actually posting this from the old machine.

Firefox though is a bit too slow, at least with video playback; the audio is fine but there's a lag with video, even with 360p. (I don't need high-res videos; I just want them to be watchable.) I'm not sure whether this is the browser, the way LL is running (on USB, which would be 2.0 on this machine), or the WIFI connection (a Verizon Jetpack, which is a cellular device). I've never seen a lag like this before. If anyone has any ideas about what's going on here and what I can try to speed things up I would love to hear them.

Thank you everyone.

Hello, everyone!
So, after shutting my laptop down today, I went off for a few hours and came back. When I tried booting, the laptop failed to load the GUI.

After conversing with a friend about this, I came here for help. The error message below is what showed up, and after this is basically just a black screen.


If anyone could help me resolve this, it would be greatly appreciated 

I am trying to revive an old Dell laptop that was running Windows XP and is really too slow for anything newer (it currently has Windows 7, which is how I know that  :-\ ). I started looking at Linux and actually tried several different distros on USB stick but most wouldn't connect to my internet, and the few that could were too slow. I just found a video about this distro and the system requirements were okay for my machine, but the video is 5 years old and Linux Lite is several versions past that. The current one has a requirement of 1gHz; my laptop is ~800mHz so I think the latest version won't work on it. I see that there are older versions available for download but I don't know their requirements. Are those available somewhere? I'd like to download the latest version that will run on this laptop.

The laptop is a Dell Latitude D631 that looks to have a Legacy BIOS (it's from 2008), with 4g RAM and a 120g HDD that is currently partitioned; I was going to put Linux in the empty partition but I couldn't get it any bigger than 16g, and anyway, I want to see what it does on USB first (assuming I can get a connection, which is another issue). This machine would be used only for Facebook, email (webmail), browsing, and audio/video stuff (YouTube, maybe some podcasts). The intended user (my brother, who is retired) doesn't have the skills to do anything else. If someone wants to recommend a particular version that's fine; I don't mind researching it, I just don't know where to look.

Thanks everyone.

Hello  to all  Linux Lite users !

My internet did function welll... but no more since i did use a shared connexion with a smartphone....

My internet connexion is OK i checked  under another pc
The network doesn't get an Ip from my router... and connection stop, restarts and so on

Is it possible to resolve it by supressing the netork driver an to reinstall it

Perhaps do you have some  better ideas ?

Thank you very much for your help and your suggestions

Jean-Marc

good morning people,
my problem is that when connecting the pc by cable in linux lite I don't receive internet, when I connect it loads but ends up telling me that there is no connection.
I tried manually entering my ip, mask, getaway but it didn't work either.
For wifi nothing appears to me either.

Cheers

I was trying to add a new user to the system using the Linux Lite User Manager. But after entering my Administrator password, I got this error:



I've tried several times with different usernames and passwords, but I just keep getting this same error; I can't add any user.
Any help?
(I'm on Linux Lite 4.8 btw and everything is up to date).

Hi everyone, i cant get updates because it keeps asking for an authentication password.  Ive tried password, jerry, linuxlite etc - no luck.  Can anyone help me pls?

Thanks
Paul

I'm using Linux for the first time just as something to play around with on a secondary laptop I own.  Today, I plugged in a flash drive, and I figured out how to use the disk manager to view the contents and reformat it with a partition using the Linux internal disk file format (Ext4).  However...I can't access the damned thing!  I saw that the drive displayed on my desktop, so tried to mount it, but I'm being told that I do not have permission to do that.  How can I give myself permission to mount removable USB drives like this and write files to it??  (Disclaimer: I know what Terminal is but I do not know any commands. I'll happily type one if you give it to me, though).