Got this amazing email today:

Dear Linux Lite Team:

I thought you might be interested to know that we are using Linux Lite to rehab donated systems that will be provided free of charge to students (both college and high school) in our area who can't afford to buy their own equipment. We selected Linux Lite for a number of reasons, but the main factors were:

1.  Linux Lite runs well on older systems.
2.  Linux Lite provides great user documentation available right from the desktop - critical for new Linux users.
3.  Linux Lite is built for long-term support.
4.  Linux Lite is easy to use, even for new users.
5.  Linux Lite provides access to the Ubuntu repos - with a wealth of free/open source software available.

Most of the donated systems are at least 5 years old, with a few even older.  We have successfully installed on 3 P4 machines with 1G of RAM (one with 512MB!) and the systems all run well.  

I'm linking to four photos of some of our students working on a group of 8 desktops.  We finished all 8 during this session, 8 others in a previous session, and have also installed on 3 laptops.  We have a few more donated systems upon which we will install Linux Lite in the next few days.

All 19 completed systems are now in use by the students we selected.

Thanks for providing such a robust, easy to use, easy to install system.

Here are links to the photos.  Please share these with your developers and the Linux Lite community.

Before I converted I was on Windows 7 and the lappy WiFi would pick-up at least 6 of my neighbours signals in addition to mine.
Since changing over to LL I can only pick up my own WiFi, but I have to be very close to it as the signal is very weak.
For example, it is currently showing 2 bars & a signal strength of 51% and the computer is only 2 feet away. If I move away, I lose connectivity after only about 20 feet.


System Brief:

Huawei E5331 Mobile Broadband WiFi



Realtek RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter



Wireless Properties

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Network Name:    3Mobile

Bit Rate:    72Mb/s

Transmission Power: Unknown

Mode:        Managed

Status:        0

Link Quality:    51

Signal/Noise:    -61/151945464



Security:    WPA & WPA2 Personal



iwconfig

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wlan0    IEEE 802.11bgn  ESSID:"3MobileWiFi-b1e1" 

          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.462 GHz  Access Point: 0C:37C:B3:B1:E1 

          Bit Rate=72.2 Mb/s  Tx-Power=20 dBm 

          Retry  long limit:7  RTS thr=2347 B  Fragment thr:off

          Power Management:off

          Link Quality=47/70  Signal level=-63 dBm 

          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0

          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:2436  Missed beacon:0

lo        no wireless extensions.
eth0      no wireless extensions.

System Info Attached
Thanks

Mel..

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Source code available from: https://github.com/linuxlite If you would like to help with these projects, please see here first - https://www.868212.xyz/code.html

• lite-usermanager
  
• lite-manual
  
• lite-welcome
  
• lite-software
  
• lite-cleaner (known as Lite Tweaks)
  
• lite-fonts
  
• lite-upgrade
  
• whiskermenu
  

• nothing
  

• lite-time
  
• lite-bootscreen
  
• lite-login
  

Maybe the wrong place to post but will 1.08 LTS be supported till 2017 (just like Ubuntu 12.04 LTS) or not ?

I've recently installed Linux Lite on an HP Pavilion PC as a dual boot alongside Windows XP.  I'm not techy, but I've managed to sort out most of the initial issues.  Yesterday I'd been trying to install SyncDrive when LL started to open multiple copies of the package installer, without concious instruction from me, then froze.  I eventually switched it off using the physical switch on the PC.

Now the system won't boot normally.  I've tried various options in the recovery mode boot, but they all end up at the command line and I don't have the expertise to try to repair it from there.  The dpkg (repair broken packages) option reported and attempted to fix various problems, and was still reporting problems when I ran it again.  The "sudo shutdown" command eventually stops at "checking battery state    [OK]" - I don't know whether this is normal.

Incidentally, Windows still boots normally.

Can anybody help, please?

Bob

Just a little survey I made to test out the capabilities with Google Drive.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1md54k3Y...Y/viewform

OK....I have a LG GSA-H55N DVD writer in my computer and have been trying to get it to recognize burning to a dual layer DVD. Specs on the drive say it should support the  DVD+Rdl disks.....yet whenever I insert a disc, it never shows the disc as ready to burn. Have tried 3 different programs.....K3b, XFBurn, and Brasero....and a few disks.

Is there something I am missing that does not allow dual layer burning? I am trying to make backup copies of a couple disks that are over the normal single layer size.....so could use some help. Thanks.

Ken

Update....just tried loading one of the DL discs into another Windows 7 machine with an LG GSA-H55L drive and it picked right up with full capacity. So, it does not appear to be an issue with the discs or the drives.....

What is the Best operating system for 32 bit old pc, i tried some linux free one's online but i'm always having a problem with linux going into a stupid command prompt at startup forcing me to always reinstall the os. What other free operating systems are similar to windows where you just reboot and it goes into login similar to windows 7, the linux ones i've tried after i installed are always giving me a "command prompt" after installing the operating system and restarting...... linux's always won't let me get back into my desktop after restarting my system i researched all the problems i have but they never work, None of the linux Operating systems are letting me get back into the desktop no matter what i try and do? Any advise? Im new to linux and it's just annoying and i need your help.

I can't get google chrome to launch installed it twice? any solutions?

I have installed linux lite 4 times due to this issue. Everytime I shut down, I log in successfully and then I have a prompt screen. It never goes to desk top. In the terminal it will read helen@helen-DA192A-ABA-734N:~$. I cannot get past this point. Any help for this?