[valtam]

Toggle the log window button to see what is happening.

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[valtam]

Known Issues:

Fastfetch patch:

Code:

sudo tee -a /home/$USER/.bashrc /root/.bashrc /etc/skel/.bashrc > /dev/null <<< 'alias fastfetch="fastfetch -c all.jsonc"' -c all.jsonc"' ~/.bashrc /etc/skel/.bashrc

Mozilla Repo fix:

Code:

sudo sed -i 's/^Suites: noble/Suites: resolute/' /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mozillateam-*.sources

[stevef]

Sadly, the GUI log display information (shown when the toggle log option is used) is lost when Calamares errors out. It is replaced by the failure screen which is frustrating. I need to locate the underlying logs text.

[valtam]

Log from a Live-ISO debugging session, grab /root/.cache/Calamares/session.log before the installer reboots — it doesn't survive the reboot otherwise.

[valtam]

I tried to install it on bare metal (older test machine) with basic settings (no manual partitioning, no encryption), but didn't succeed.

* A USB stick with ISO installed via dd as well as the highly preferred Ventoy USB stick failed. I tried two Linux Lite installations for each. Both sticks aborted with the same error messages in the same order.

* error during first attempt:
"Failed to unpack image "/cdrom/casper/filesystem.squashfs
Details: rsync failed with error code 11."

* error during second attempt:
"The installer failed to create a partition table on ...
Details: Create a new partition table (type: msdos) on '/dev/sda'
Job: Create new partition table on device '/dev/sda'
Command: sfdisk -wipe=always /dev/sda"

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See updated OG post.

First impression running a live session:

The additions are impressive and am looking forward to utilising some of them:
* Lite Distro Builder

* Lite Core (I certainly miss Samba on the list to uninstall)


What caught my (critical) eye:

* Time & Date configuration still ends up with an error message - see my post I unfortunately never got a reply to despite asking a few times.

* Lite apps icons: they not only break the style of all the other items but most importantly they are far to detailed/overloaded to the point they more or less look all the same. Am forced to read the text to know what the underlying app is for which makes them useless.

* Terminal prompt Starship: In the past I already got rid of Powerline with each installation. Starship seems even worse - and not aligned with Linux Lite in terms of simple.

Lite Core - that's actually a good idea, I'll add it.

Re. critical eye:

Time & Date - thank you, I'll look into this. Please link your original post. Time & Date works here without issue, survives a reboot. Pacific/Auckland chose on map.

Icons - this kind of change is fraught with risk. You do make some good points, let's see how this pans out over time.


Terminal prompt - as above with icons and also possibly subjective.

[valtam]

Partition images:

[valtam]

New Kernel available via Lite Kernel Manager. We won't be pushing RC kernels much, but this one had a number of significant changes:



Linux Kernel 7.1 - Summary of Changes
========================================================

Status: Currently in RC1 (release candidate). Final stable release expected mid-June 2026.


NEW NTFS DRIVER (the headline change)

- Brand new in-kernel NTFS driver, fully rewritten from scratch.
- Written by the same developer who created the Linux exFAT driver.
- Replaces years of slow or under-maintained NTFS support.
- Faster and more reliable reads/writes on Windows-formatted drives (USB sticks, external drives, dual-boot partitions).
- Single-threaded writes are 3-5% faster than the previous driver.
- Multi-threaded writes are 35% to 110% faster.
- Passes 326 compliance tests, compared to 273 for the old NTFS3 driver.
- Optional for now (enabled via a Kconfig switch); old NTFS3 driver stays in-tree but its days are likely numbered.


HARDWARE SUPPORT

- AMD GPU driver improvements (large register header sync makes up about 25% of the entire patch).
- Intel i915 GPU driver improvements.
- New USB power supply driver support.
- USB dwc3 driver updates.
- New Thunderbolt and USB hardware support added.


REMOVED / DEPRECATED HARDWARE

- Gradual withdrawal of support for Intel i486 CPUs (nearly 40 years old).
- Drivers for long-obsolete input hardware removed (e.g. bus mouse support).


SECURITY

- Intel Linear Address Space Separation (LASS) support now considered to be in good shape.
- LASS more strictly segments memory address space to reduce attack surfaces against certain exploits.
- Opens the door for distributions to enable it by default.


FILESYSTEM IMPROVEMENTS

- EXT4 improvements.
- F2FS improvements.
- New NTFS driver (covered above).


OTHER IMPROVEMENTS

- Sound subsystem improvements.
- Networking improvements.
- Core kernel performance optimisations across storage, networking, memory management, and graphics.
- Documentation, tooling, and selftest updates.


SCALE OF THE RELEASE

- About 13,000 non-merge commits in the merge window.
- Roughly half of changes are driver updates.
- The rest are spread across architecture updates, filesystems, networking, and core kernel code.

[sqwuade]

Excellent!  I'll take her for a test drive.  I've tried out a few other 26.04 based distros and all seem to work well.  Looking forward to the "NEW Linux Lite High Performance Custom Kernel" too.

Cheers!

[LL-user]

Thanks for your consideration!

* Time & Date post: https://dfgkh547-jsdfv8.iyhkj.tk/forums/showthread.php?tid="9689

* Icons/terminal prompt: certainly mostly subjective


valtam:

Lite Core - that's actually a good idea, I'll add it.

Re. critical eye:

Time & Date - thank you, I'll look into this. Please link your original post. Time & Date works here without issue, survives a reboot. Pacific/Auckland chose on map.

Icons - this kind of change is fraught with risk. You do make some good points, let's see how this pans out over time.


Terminal prompt - as above with icons and also possibly subjective.

[sqwuade]

Booting from Ventoy into Live mode worked fine for me.  The system seems very fast and responsive!

I did like the old terminal color theme better than the new, rainbow colors one.  I thought the blue for normal use and red when elevated to root was an easy way to remind you of if you were elevated or not and simple colors seem more apropos to me.

The LL icons do look very similar to each other (as LL-user pointed out earlier). I prefer the older ones as well.

Cheers!

(Screenshot taken from Live mode)




Excellent!  I'll take her for a test drive.  I've tried out a few other 26.04 based distros and all seem to work well.  Looking forward to the "NEW Linux Lite High Performance Custom Kernel" too.
Cheers!