Hi
Switched to Linux Lite to put my money where my mouth is. My feeling is that my last distro was run by folks who's hobby is wring new operating systems and not fixing bugs. For me there have been a few bells and whistles added but basically the OS on my Macintosh Performa had it cracked 20 years ago. Fed up with ridiculous filing systems, going round the houses to create a favorites file and don't want my CPU clogging up with daft things like transparent windows.
So here I am.

I have a handmedown laptop currently running Windows 7 that I would like to install Linux Lite alongside on (this would be my third Linux Lite computer). I'm reading the Help manual but I'm a bit confused.

This computer has about 350 (wut) GB storage. It is partitioned into two parts, C and a larger partition D (I'm assuming previous owner hasn't jammed another hard drive into the laptop but rather C and D are the same drive). I have cleaned out D so it's currently empty. Apparently there's a few other partitions as well, it says "primary partition" on all of them. So, what exactly do I need to do here? I would like to merge C and D (and the other partitions as well if possible), should I just "Delete this partition", will that automatically make C "absorb" the deleted partition?

EDIT: I went ahead and checked out the Linux Lite install menu. So, eventually I reach a screen that says partitions 8 and 9 of SCSI1 are gonna be formatted... what are those? If I set aside space for Lite I wanna make sure that's where Lite ends up. I don't want to click continue before I know for sure.

I'm renewing my broadband package with my telecom provider and the issue of connection speeds came up - of course the faster the connection speed the more you pay.

I then had a look at my own connection speeds with LL: 
- the information for an active network connection shows 300Mb/s (iwlwifi driver) = 37.50MB/s

This is important as our broadband provider provides a cheaper package with speeds of up to 17MB/s, and a more expensive one with speeds up to 38MB/s. 

Then I had a look at the my actual download speeds e.g. downloading TV programmes, podcasts...
- the information shows actual download speeds to be only between 165kB/s and 450kB/s = 0.17MB/s to 0.45MB/s.

This means the actual speeds in MB/s are between 80 and 220 times slower than the active network connection information indicates.
This is confusing - can someone clarify this disparity ...

Many thanks
Mike
 

I've been running a Windows OS virtual machine for a while on an LL host.

When I set up the VM, the only runtimes that seems to have installed appears to be 'Silverlight' and ~net 4.6.1 (or an earlier version). 

Therefore, do I need to download & install other 'runtimes' for the VM (e.g.  Java 8, ~.net 4.6.2, Air & Shockwave) or does the VM's software take over and replace these?

I have searched the internet but haven't found an answer to this - does anyone know?

Many thanks for any help...

Today I upgraded our repository server that serves all our Lite Software and ISO releases.
I'm pleased to report the upgrade went very smoothly. This will now serve us through to April 2019.

On Jan 1st 2017, Ubuntu are strengthening APT repositories by ditching SHA-1. I've already corrected our repo in anticipation for this change, that's not to say there may be an issue or two come Jan 1st with updates. This is just a heads-up in-case Install Updates fail on that day. I'll be monitoring everything extremely closely and be poised to pounce if anything needs adjusting.

More info on that here - http://news.softpedia.com/news/ubuntu-to...0462.shtml

Hello guys i was wondering is there any software/apps that enable symmetry drawing in Linux. before this i work on windows & i use Krita but now i use Linux Lite but Krita not support 32bit and i looking to alternative to Krita. i try gimp but i can't find how to do symmetry. i use Gimp 2.8.18.

Ever since I removed Google Chrome and MySQL a few weeks ago, the software updater has been telling me that there are "No Updates Available".

In order to fully purge that pesky MySQL I found some esoteric commands on the Ubuntu site (no, I don't remember) and I think I may have affected the update sources or done something else nasty.

Is there any way to return the update function to its "default" settings without having to reinstall LL altogether?

llupdates.log shows no record when I attempt updates now.

Linux Lite 3.2 - Change Software Repositories to a different mirror

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFpX2DmdZYQ

The video shows how to change Software Repositories to a different mirror in Linux lite 3.2 citrine.
I don't know how to embed youtube videos in my posts (not even sure if it is allowed).

So..I got an infected file--I scanned it via clamscan. Is there a way to know what is the infected file? And what should I do to remove it?

This error is safe to ignore, but if you want to get rid of the message: