The 6 month number on Distrowatch for Linux Lite is #20.  Pretty cool this happened on the day that Windows 10 becomes available.

Here's to the upcoming version 2.6 putting Linux Lite into the top 15!!!!

I was not sure where to report this but it seems I have received a message intended for another member of the forum. I will leave the message in my inbox should the development team need to view it.

I've got a couple of portable executables that I don't know how to integrate into the system. For instance, Palemoon is in a folder. I want to park it in the right place and then create a launcher to it, on the desktop and the start menu, for lack of a better term.


I also have a portable windows executable that I can fire directly, but which I cannot fire via launcher. If I park it at /opt or /usr/bin I keep getting access violations, or nothing happens at all.


Thanks for any guidance.

Is there any way to get rid of the need to authenticate before accessing internal drives after each boot? I came across instructions to alter the /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.devicekit.disks.policy file, but there is none in LL. I trust the setting must be somewhere else.

Thanks,
Paul

Hey folks! I'm an 18 years old teenager from Morocco, Linux Lite is the right distro for me, I love Gaming and Programming!
It's My first time joining a Linux community, sooo Hi

I have my own OpenVPN Access Server.  To install my OpenVPN client and connect to my Access Server, I follow the instructions at https://openvpn.net/index.php/access-ser...ients.html.  When I have the server redirect internet browsing, so that the network my Access Server is connected to handles the browsing, I can ping IP addresses, but I cannot ping domain names or browse the internet.  For example, I can ping the Google public DNS server 8.8.8.8, but I cannot ping or browse to www.google.com.

I put in a ticket with the folks at OpenVPN.  They led me to my /etc/resolv.conf file, which shows my nameserver as 127.0.0.1.  When I changed the nameserver to 8.8.8.8, I could ping ip addresses and domain names and browse the internet.  Using www.ipchicken.com, my internet browsing appeared to be coming from the same public IP address as my OpenVPN Access Server.  This was the result I was looking for.  But after rebooting, the nameserver returned to 127.0.0.1. 

As a workaround for this, I added 8.8.8.8 as an Additional DNS Server in my Network Connections.  I have been able to use another Ubuntu Linux based distro without this workaround.  And the folks at OpenVPN suggested there might be something special going on with the distro I'm using (Linux Lite 2.4 64 bit) that could be causing the /etc/resolv.conf file to use the local loopback address as my nameserver.

For the record, I have LL 2.4 64bit running on my laptop and my desktop, and the behavior connecting to my OpenVPN Access Server is the same.  I have to add 8.8.8.8 to my Network Connections settings, as a workaround, in order to get the expected behavior.

I have installed LL on three units in the past few weeks. Each time it gets a little easier as I learn the ropes.

But is it possible to compile a custom installation disk with the common programs, addons and settings that I want to place on each machine? For instance, I want WINE and a couple of Windows programs, I want the expanded gnome theme collection, a video editor, the slimjet browser, etc.

I would like to personally thank all of those who have supported the project up until now. Without your generous support, we could not have made it this far.

There is still so much to do, so much to improve on and so much to offer. Your donations to date have helped maintain our web presence, hosting, repo server, domain expenses, Bounty payments etc and the recent purchase of the Linux Lite Development Workstation.

At some point in the future, we may look at supporting UEFI. Although personally I am against this technology because of how it controls users, we do ourselves no favors by excluding a large part of the Windows population of whom we are trying to convert to Linux Lite. This year, I'd like to purchase a UEFI computer of which to start testing UEFI support for the future. UEFI is unlikely to be supported in Series 2 of LL, but cannot be ruled out in the future.

It's my hope that in the future we can pay people full time to work on Linux Lite, but that is some time off yet. It takes years to build a credible distro but to date, we are on the right track thanks to some good magazine and online reviews.

We now accepts Donations in 23 currencies. If you would like to support the project in recognition of all of our work to date, and to support the upcoming 2.6 release on September 1st, and future development please visit here - https://www.linuxliteos.com/donate.html#donate



Thank you sincerely

Jerry

Just converted a Dell 1545 from Vista x32 to LL 2.4 x32. Awesome result. Everything went smoothly. I had to install the Broadcom driver, everything else was stock. Added Wine and a few other progs. The owner is absolutely thrilled with the speed and stability - neither of which Vista had any acquaintance with.


I had struggled to make Vista work, but finally gave up. Not a bad OS, but MS abandoned it a long time ago and went on to "greener" pastures, leaving the field tech to try to clean up its messes.


I also decided I won't be upgrading my own tower to Win10, since I don't want to cede control of my computer to MS' mandatory automatic updates. I'll stick with 7 for the time being, but if it comes to it, I would have no compunction against converting to LL.

Am running ll 2.4 from 1TB external hdd.

Was putting 2.4 ISO to flash through Unetbootin,somehow its loaded onto the 1 TB drive instead.

Its now booting as a live usb.

Can I take this out....?.

Jocklad