Release Announcement

Linux Lite 6.2 RC1 is now available for testing.

This release is mostly comprised of UI adjustments and bug fixes. I really like this release, we have managed to improve upon 6.0 to really give it some polish. There are some details below, but all of the changes will be in the Release Announcement.

See below for details.

Linux Lite 6.2 Final will be released on 1st November, 2022.



Changes:

Lite Upgrade

Many re-writes to this application, just in time for the 6.2 release. A new end dialogue is included and we've integrated the newest, stable LibreOffice into the up-grader.









Updated Icons

The latest Papirus icon set has been included.



Shotcut replaces Openshot in Lite Software

We researched a replacement for Openshot since it has been broken in Jammy for a long time now, we didn't want people to be left without a feature rich, simple to use video editor.










Other Changes:

- Fixed dialogue lengths of many Linux Lite applications
- Fixed hostname bug in Lite Tweaks
- The Hardware Database now has over 75,000 submissions. 100k here we come! https://dfgkh547-jsdfv8.iyhkj.tk/hardware.php
- Fixed bug in Lite Sources not populating the codename
- Purging even more logs in Lite Tweaks, freeing up space
- Latest stable versions of Chrome, LibreOffice, Lite applications etc
- New wallpapers
- Task Manager (System Monitoring Center) right click now works everywhere, updated icon
- Microsoft Teams removed from Lite Software, no longer maintained by Microsoft, instead, they will offer a PWA version only for Linux. Ref. https://www.omglinux.com/the-official-mi...g-retired/
- Fixed Kernel Removal in Lite Tweaks
- Fixed application to handle directories, Catfish opening instead of Thunar in some instances
- Fixed ‘apt-key’ Deprecation warning on Ubuntu
- Minor additions to Lite Patch to deal with potential Update errors

Plus many other tweaks and changes.

Window Theme: Materia
Icon Theme: Papirus
Font: Roboto Regular

Thunderbird:

There seems to be a bit of interest in the new Thunderbird versions 100.x and higher. As such, I'm going to leave a quick how to if you no longer want to wait for the official version from the Ubuntu repositories. Disclaimer: You run this at your own risk, it has not been released through Ubuntu yet and therefore is not supported. If it fubars your system, Google is your friend. Impatience, can backfire.

A photo card has been detected

There are photos on the card.  Would you like to add these photos to your album?

Ignore (button)    Import Photos  (button)

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The above message has been popping up about every 10 minutes if I close it.  Currently I have it minimized and thus out of the way ...  hrug
By the way I do have photos already archived on an external drive that it seems to me referencing. However I do not want to add them into my Lite photo album.

Loid

Hoping for an early October RC1 release...

Hello. I try to install new Wine 7 using this tutorial https://wiki.winehq.org/Ubuntu evrything was okay but when update i get problem with key

GPG error: https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/ubuntu jammy InRelease: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 76F1A20FF987672F

That is strange because i installed development version on Linux Lite before, and worked ok.

Just for fun:


Why the Confederate Space Force Uses Linux

Is there a method of making the Canon TS5150 work with simple scan, or Skanlite? I can get it to scan using the Canon ScangearMP2-3.50, but its quite restrictive. I'm running LinuxLite3.6.

Thanks Ian

I'm trialing a new Forum theme. Can you please select the theme 'South' in your Profiles and see what you think. The colors are not final, so please, suggest some that would be good, night and day. Seems to be a lot faster? Thank you.

Good morning.


I was hoping someone may know an answer to this.  I have ran LL on a Thinkpad now for around 5 years. I had issues with the previous laptop from water damage, and then purchased the exact same model used, and swapped RAM and the SSD.  All the other programs are running as it should, and if it is updates or software on the SSD it works fine.


When connecting a USB or SD card to the system I cannot mount them.  It states I am not authorized.  I am not a Linux Savvy person, but I am Google Savvy, and so far my Google Fu has not found me the correct answers.  Before nuking the entire image and starting over I thought I would reach out to the forums. 


Thanks for looking, and any advice is appreciated. 

Hello!

One thing I find extremely useful to add to the forum interface: a button to embed videos, usually YouTube.
I make video tutorials from time to time, and it will be very useful to have the possibility to embed such videos in posts.
Further more, some tutorials are more useful if they are made as videos.
One example:
Embedding images in a post, is by far more easier to understand in a video. Actually, I made one for my own use.
It takes too much to write and explain in words what otherwise is more suitable in a video format.
The changes required to the forum code, are explained in this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxce5nKIe5k

I guess the changes are quite similar to write the code for SMF (the above video is for phpBB Forums).
On the SMF Forum, I found this:

https://custom.simplemachines.org/index.php?mod=3982

However, I also found a video related to editing post options, but it is unclear if there is a tag/code for video embedding, to activate from there and the video is outdated (2010).
Here is the video, anyway. Might help:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i69kI4yk4Ds

I liked the snippet with VideoID instead of qualified URL, mostly for the security reasons, but also for simplicity...

There is no sound in my system speakers.
I tried "inxi -SMA" in my terminal and it showed like this.
It shows two sound devices in the audio in the section, one is Intel and another is Nvidia.