It's great to see all these new kernels coming down through Install Updates. Makes me feel like my system is stronger for it.

Was at the Dentist yesterday for a six month check.

While I was in the chair the dentist booted up his computer to get my dental records.

It was running Windows XP .

How many organisations are still running obsolete operating systems........With your personal data on them.  :o :o :o

Jocklad.

Just having a browse on Apple laptops.

http://www.apple.com/uk/shop/buy-mac/mac...LH12B/A-UK

Nearly 2000.00 pounds for a laptop.

Do people actually buy these.....?.

Jocklad  > > >  :o

Can some please fur ther explain this yellow box to me.  I'm fairly new to this and don't understand what I'm looking at since there is no direct command and example.  I don't understand the copy area in the yellow box and how I'm supposed to modify it.  I coped this from the help manual:

Terminal Command:
                 
sudo leafpad /etc/rc.local

Above the line exit 0 in that file, add the TRIM command fstrim -v for every EXT4 partition from your fstab file.
Copy the text below and edit it to match your set up. We include the creation of a log for you so you can check if trim is performed during boot up. The log is in /var/log/trim.log
#!/bin/sh -e
#
# rc.local
#
# This script is executed at the end of each multiuser runlevel.
# Make sure that the script will "exit 0" on success or any other
# value on error.
#
# In order to enable or disable this script just change the execution
# bits.
#
# By default this script does nothing.

LOG=/var/log/trim.log
echo “*** $(date -R) ***” >> $LOG
fstrim -v /boot >> $LOG
fstrim -v / >> $LOG
fstrim -v /home >> $LOG
echo " " >> $LOG

exit 0

A HUGE thank you to Ralphy for contributing some excellent code recently in both of these applications.

New Features:

Lite Software

- Internet connection check for Lite Software and Install Updates
- Clearer descriptions

Lite Tweaks

- Package System Repair improved
- Check for Administrator for system tasks

For the geeks - https://github.com/linuxlite/litesoftwar...its/master and https://github.com/linuxlite/litetweaks/commits/master

Source - http://news.softpedia.com/news/google-ch...0702.shtml

Your move Firefox http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/09/adobe...lash-linux

Been reading up on cpu/heatsink cleaning.

There is a bewildering amount of advice on how thermal paste should be applied.

How do you apply thermal paste.  : : :

Jocklad

For months now, we have been losing the adblock battle on our website. Our ad revenue has been cut by nearly 1/2 due to adblockers.
This is severely impacting our progress, and delaying our ability to grow the project by months.

I respect peoples freedom to block Ads around the internet, especially the larger sites who make millions in ad revenue and who aren't severely impacted the way the little guys like us are. I make no apologies for introducing tougher measures to combat this issue, and take it personally as an assault on a small projects ability to grow.

In the future, where the project has enough ad revenue to provide fair incomes for developers, ad block measures will be relaxed in direct relation to where we are at in terms of being self-supported.

There should be an option for users to browse the website with extra ads for supporting Linux Lite more strongly. I suggest we switch to Revcontent ads, as they allow us to choose what ads to see.

A reply would be appreciated.

Hello, my name is Jimmy and I am considering to install Linux Lite and I would like more information before making any decisions.

I have a newer computer:

• Housing = Lenovo ThinkPad T530 (laptop).
  
• CPU = Intel Core i7-3520M CPU @ 2.90GHz. Cores = 2. Enabled cores = 2. Threads = 4.
  
• Graphics = NVIDIA GF108M [NVS 5400M], 33 MHz.
  
• BIOS = Lenovo G4ETA6WW (2.66, UEFI), which is NVIDIA Optimus enabled (can do integrated, discrete or hybrid graphics).
  
• SSD:  System = 250 GB.  Data = 500 GB.
  

1. I want this computer to last me at least the next decade, as has my old computer (WinXP on Compaq Presario laptop, bought in 2005).
   
2. Professional audio, video and lighting control softwares for professional event & studio technology equipment, such as digital audio mixers, video mixers, lighting mixers, etc.
   
3. Multi-track digital audio recording, editing, mixing and playback (DAW/digital audio workstation).
   
4. Spreadsheet & Google Apps Script programming for large calculations that use iterative mathematical functions to find answers.  (The computer sits there spinning for a minute before finally coming up with an answer.)
   
5. Android app creation.
   
6. Video conferencing.
   
7. Run WinXP or Win7 in a virtual machine.
   
   

1. Does Linux Lite support NVIDIA Optimus out of the box?
   
2. Does LL support low-latency kernels for professional audio software environments, such as JACK?
   
3. Is it possible to reliably use JACK audio software (for realtime patching with low-latency) on LL?
   
4. Once the OS is set up, what risks are there regarding compatibility with future audio softwares and drivers?  (Can I just continue to use the OS for 10 years straight, like I did with XP, even after support ended?)
   
5. Can I reliably install professional audio, video and lighting control softwares which are not listed in the LL repository?  ...without the process being too complicated?
   
   

• Ubuntu Studio (LTS, based upon Xubuntu >> Ubuntu).  https://ubuntustudio.org/  My first choice, but unfortunately, this distro has several system bugs that really bother me (wifi fails when system errors occur, mouse disappears, software center crashes upon open rendering it unusable, etc.).
  
• Xubuntu (LTS, based upon Ubuntu).  Concerned about more of the same here, as Ubuntu Studio is based upon this.
  
• Manjaro (rolling releases, based upon Arch).  https://manjaro.org/  Very appealing, but concerned about 5+ years down the road...  Will this OS become too advanced for my computer?
  
• Linux Lite (LTS, based upon Ubuntu).  Can this actually do everything I want it to do?