Hi Folks. I am a pensioner and live in new Zealand. My main OS is/was Xp. I have also dabbled in Ubuntu, Zorin, Mint and Puppy. I have a number of small hard drives and a computer tower (2.66ghz cpu and 1gb ram) with no side on it, so that i can easily change distro by physically swapping hard drives Smile.

I stumbled upon a YouTube video of Linux Light 1.0.8 by Spatry last night. He was very complimentary about it, including recommending it as a replacement for XP. So today I have downloaded it, had a wee play with it live, and was also impressed, so installed it and the updates.

Thank you all for being here.

What is a good backup program for a newby? Easy to set up and easy to restore the backup it needed. No Terminal programs please. I guess I would use a CD or DVD or USB stick.

Backintime-Gome was the highest reviewed in the Ubuntu Software Center but one of the reviews said "While I really like the backup process, I do not like the restore process. You have to install BIT manually when using a live CD/USB stick and you have to set the correct hostname. Otherwise BIT is not able to detect its own backup." Not sure what it means but sounds difficult.

Hi Linux-Lite,
I have tried different distros before and always when back to XP. But after watching "Spatry" YouTube video "Linux Lite 1.0.8 The BEST Replacement For Windows XP!" I think this is the distro for me, it has most of the program I would use right out of the box. And I am hoping it will breath new life into my (many, many) old PC I have around the house.

I know there are a lot of Micro$oft haters but IMHO they made a very intuitive interface (up until Windows 8 ). Why not take what Micro$oft does good and make it better?

I'm not sure if I've done something wrong, but I have noticed a couple of odd things recently...
Somewhere along the line, as I have been adding new items, I noticed yesterday that my Menu layout had changed from the original one - some extra things show and some have disappeared.

One extra one is "Help" and if I click it, my screen goes to the Screensaver.
The other one is "About Xfce" and if I click that, I am taken back to my Login screen.

I thought I'd been really careful to progress slowly, but obviously I've done something stupid and I have no idea where I have gone wrong. I sort of think it might have been something to do with changing to "English UK" language in Language Support and Regional Formats, but I'm not certain of that.

Anyway, if I wanted to revert to the original Program from the USB I made, how would I do this, please?
My laptop is currently dual boot between Windows XP Pro and Linux Lite, so I wondered if I could start over again and be more careful - but I don't want to have to reinstall Windows or encounter MBR problems.
If  there is a simple way of just overwriting my current Linux installation with the original from my USB, could someone help, please?

 

I'm about to install Wine from the LL 1.0.8 64 bit disco to run an old Windows 95 32bit application (that I've been running under Windows 98 and then XP OK)

Reading WineHQ FAQ at http://wiki.winehq.org/FAQ#head-0bae04b4...acb6f367ff

Quote:7.2. How do I create a 32 bit wineprefix on a 64 bit system?

At present there are some significant bugs that prevent many 32 bit applications from working in a 64 bit wineprefix. To work around this, you can create a new 32 bit wineprefix using the WINEARCH environment variable. In a terminal, type:

Just installed Linux Lite and now noticed I spelled my name wrong when defining the user!! Is there an easy way to correct this? I've been through all the Settings and User Manager options but couldn't see anywhere to do this.

Note: I'm referring to user's full name, not the log-on ID

I contacted Joey-Elijah Sneddon of OMG! Ubuntu! for a request to a write-up of Linux Lite. At 2:08 PM (14:08) U.S Central Standard Time, he emailed me back saying he'd take a look at it.

Here is a screenshot of the e-mail. E-mail is blurred out for integrity and privacy of his and my information.

How do you install unixodbc? apt-get install unixodbc doesn't seem to work.

Hi
I'm trying to install LL onto a new clean PC with EFI but with my own partitioning scheme. I first set the EFI to remove Secure Boot. Then booted with the Live CD and then ran GParted to format the HD as per:



I then ran the installation and selected Something Else. Now I'm stuck as I expected (hoped!) that I could select the appropriate partitions, in particular the root to install, the swap, and efi for the boot loader (if I understand that correctly)



Any help appreciated as I'm trying to get off XP

I escaped three years ago from my employer's forced use of XP and its MS predecessors and have been using Mac OS for the past 9 years at home. I tried Lubuntu for a few weeks in January before finding Linux Lite. I disagree with the writers of these below articles. I do not think they are aware of Linux Lite.

"Lubuntu might be the best Linux distro for Windows XP users" http://www.itworld.com/open-source/40900...s-xp-users
"Windows XP User? Here’s 4 Reasons to Switch to Lubuntu This April" http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/02/four-...this-april

Hopefully more XP users will find Linux Lite.