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- | My Linux journey started with the eeePC, but has included Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Linux Mint KDE edition, Kubuntu, MX 14-16, Puppy Slacko, Bodhi, Lubuntu, Elementary, Peppermint 6, Linux Lite 2.8, Ubuntu MATE, Knoppix, Linux Lite 3.2, Linux Lite 3.4, Linux Lite 3.6. | + | ===== 1 ===== |
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+ | **My Linux journey started with the eeePC, but has included Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Linux Mint KDE edition, Kubuntu, MX 14-16, Puppy Slacko, Bodhi, Lubuntu, Elementary, Peppermint 6, Linux Lite 2.8, Ubuntu MATE, Knoppix, Linux Lite 3.2, Linux Lite 3.4, Linux Lite 3.6. | ||
In fact, I have installed Linux Lite on 9 different computers, to date – I have found it to be a very rewarding distribution to use, so I’ve written this piece to say why. Technically, | In fact, I have installed Linux Lite on 9 different computers, to date – I have found it to be a very rewarding distribution to use, so I’ve written this piece to say why. Technically, | ||
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Linux Lite is based on the latest LTS of Ubuntu – so 16.04 is the basis of series 3.0 of Linux Lite, with version 3.8 available for download. Incremental improvements are achieved throughout the series but a new installation is required for the start of a new series. Ubuntu 18.04 will kick off Linux Lite series 4.0. | Linux Lite is based on the latest LTS of Ubuntu – so 16.04 is the basis of series 3.0 of Linux Lite, with version 3.8 available for download. Incremental improvements are achieved throughout the series but a new installation is required for the start of a new series. Ubuntu 18.04 will kick off Linux Lite series 4.0. | ||
- | So, in a world of so many Ubuntu derivatives, | + | So, in a world of so many Ubuntu derivatives, |
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+ | Mon chemin de Linuxien commença avec l' | ||
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+ | En fait, jusqu' | ||
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+ | Linux Lite est basé sur la dernière distribution à support à long terme (LTS) d' | ||
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+ | Bon. Dans un monde avec tant de distrib. dérivées d' | ||
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- | Personal – I don’t get a great kick out of impressive graphics, particularly if they hit my machine’s performance or usability. I like stuff to to ‘just work’. I don’t mind working away to resolve a problem, but I like a reliable core as this makes it clearer where a problem may lie. And I’m no expert, despite having had close encounters with computers for nearly 40 years, so I like an OS that tells me what it’s doing and, with a bit of effort on my part, how. | + | **Personal – I don’t get a great kick out of impressive graphics, particularly if they hit my machine’s performance or usability. I like stuff to to ‘just work’. I don’t mind working away to resolve a problem, but I like a reliable core as this makes it clearer where a problem may lie. And I’m no expert, despite having had close encounters with computers for nearly 40 years, so I like an OS that tells me what it’s doing and, with a bit of effort on my part, how. |
Hardware – I don’t throw away older PCs, I rehabilitate them for charitable uses or fund-raising. So I need an OS that can run on less memory and slower processors. But I also have a Tower desktop, and an Acer laptop, each with 8GB RAM, and I prefer to run them with Linux Lite too, so it’s not just about being mean with memory usage. | Hardware – I don’t throw away older PCs, I rehabilitate them for charitable uses or fund-raising. So I need an OS that can run on less memory and slower processors. But I also have a Tower desktop, and an Acer laptop, each with 8GB RAM, and I prefer to run them with Linux Lite too, so it’s not just about being mean with memory usage. | ||
- | Ease of use – I want an OS to be easy to configure for different needs and preferences. The desktop must be capable of changes to layout and appearance to suit different preferences, | + | Ease of use – I want an OS to be easy to configure for different needs and preferences. The desktop must be capable of changes to layout and appearance to suit different preferences, |
- | Easy to maintain – not just system updates, supplied reliably and capable of fuss-free implementation, | + | Raisons personnelles - Les graphismes impressionnants ne me passionnent pas outre mesure, surtout s'ils diminuent les performances ou l' |
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+ | Raisons matérielles - Je ne jette pas les PC vieillissants, | ||
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+ | Raisons d' | ||
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+ | **Easy to maintain – not just system updates, supplied reliably and capable of fuss-free implementation, | ||
So coping with this range of varying requirements, | So coping with this range of varying requirements, | ||
- | I first installed it when rescuing a Windows 7 laptop for a friend. This was 2.8, and I liked the look of it, so, when the advent of Ubuntu 16.04 prompted a review of my installations, | + | I first installed it when rescuing a Windows 7 laptop for a friend. This was 2.8, and I liked the look of it, so, when the advent of Ubuntu 16.04 prompted a review of my installations, |
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+ | Facile à entretenir - Pas seulement les mises à jour du système, fournies avec régularité et implémentées le plus souvent en toute simplicité, | ||
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+ | Je trouve que la réponse à cette gamme d’exigences variées est la grande force de Linux Lite. Il se peut que son nom soit modeste et même plutôt terne, mais c'est un nom qui annonce clairement sa philosophie - « Lite » pour dire qu' | ||
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+ | Je l'ai installé pour la première fois quand je portais secours au portable sous Windows 7 d'un ami. C' | ||
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- | Usability | + | **Usability |
Linux Lite uses the XFCE desktop, now at version 4.12, described in the late lamented Linux Voice Magazine (Linux Voice Issue 25) in this way: | Linux Lite uses the XFCE desktop, now at version 4.12, described in the late lamented Linux Voice Magazine (Linux Voice Issue 25) in this way: | ||
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Welcome to the new user | Welcome to the new user | ||
- | On a new install, a Welcome page pops up on boot (until you tell it you don’t want it any more), not a new idea but uniquely modified so that essential post-installation tasks are highlighted and can be run directly from the Welcome page, linking to the Help Manual as you go. | + | On a new install, a Welcome page pops up on boot (until you tell it you don’t want it any more), not a new idea but uniquely modified so that essential post-installation tasks are highlighted and can be run directly from the Welcome page, linking to the Help Manual as you go.** |
- | A Welcome Page with Actions | + | Ergonomie |
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+ | Linux Lite utilise le bureau XFCE, actuellement à la version 4.12, décrit dans feu le magazine Linux Voice, bien regretté (Linux Voice, numéro 25), comme ceci : | ||
+ | « C'est un environnement de bureau superbe et puissant, qui ne prend pas trop de cycles à votre processeur, ni de mémoire à votre RAM, tout en réussissant à garder une apparence épurée et moderne. XFCE est stable et complet, vous proposant tout ce dont vous avez besoin, de la gestion d'une session à la recherche d'une application et à son gestionnaire de fichiers, Thunar, qui se sert de peu de ressources tout en étant super puissant... Il est également stable et mature, avec peu de changements d'une version à une autre... Il fait ce pourquoi il a été conçu avec très peu d' | ||
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+ | Je ne pense pas pouvoir y ajouter autre chose, sauf à dire que Linux Lite est presque un partenaire idéal et exploite au maximum son approche flexible et « sans histoires » de l' | ||
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+ | Accueil du nouvel utilisateur | ||
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+ | Lors d'une nouvelle installation, | ||
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+ | **A Welcome Page with Actions | ||
From the Welcome Page the new user can | From the Welcome Page the new user can | ||
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In fact, the next striking aspect of Linux Lite is its Help Manual. Available online but also installed by default on the desktop, it loads up easily in a browser and presents a very accessible set of documents very clearly. | In fact, the next striking aspect of Linux Lite is its Help Manual. Available online but also installed by default on the desktop, it loads up easily in a browser and presents a very accessible set of documents very clearly. | ||
- | I don't know another help system in common use that presents its topics as clearly as this, particularly for someone new to the system. Each Contents page topic opens immediately to a sub-title menu helping you to easily identify the right information track for you. Each of the notes themselves is written clearly and simply, and the Help Manual could in fact be useful to almost any inexperienced user of a Debian or Ubuntu based system. | + | I don't know another help system in common use that presents its topics as clearly as this, particularly for someone new to the system. Each Contents page topic opens immediately to a sub-title menu helping you to easily identify the right information track for you. Each of the notes themselves is written clearly and simply, and the Help Manual could in fact be useful to almost any inexperienced user of a Debian or Ubuntu based system.** |
- | In addition, underpinning every user is an excellent Support Forum (linked to from the Welcome screen, and elsewhere) which gets constant attention from developers, including the ‘main man’, Jerry Bezencon. I have found problems get dealt with constructively and promptly, so it’s rare to have an unresolvable problem without at least a suggestion for a workaround. And solutions often find their way seamlessly into upcoming upgrades. | + | Une page d' |
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+ | À partir de la page d' | ||
+ | • mettre le système à jour ; | ||
+ | • installer, au besoin, des pilotes particuliers ; | ||
+ | • implémenter le support de langue complet partout dans le système et les applications et créer un premier point de restauration en utilisant SystemBack. | ||
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+ | Remarquez aussi les liens vers l' | ||
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+ | Aide et assistance | ||
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+ | En fait, l' | ||
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+ | Je ne connais aucun autre système d'aide utilisé couramment qui présente ses sujets aussi clairement que celui-ci, en particulier pour quelqu' | ||
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+ | **In addition, underpinning every user is an excellent Support Forum (linked to from the Welcome screen, and elsewhere) which gets constant attention from developers, including the ‘main man’, Jerry Bezencon. I have found problems get dealt with constructively and promptly, so it’s rare to have an unresolvable problem without at least a suggestion for a workaround. And solutions often find their way seamlessly into upcoming upgrades. | ||
Lite Tweaks and other Lite additions | Lite Tweaks and other Lite additions | ||
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When you get past initial setup, you find there are a host of extra utilities, some substantial, | When you get past initial setup, you find there are a host of extra utilities, some substantial, | ||
- | The one I find myself turning to most often is Lite Tweaks. It presents a wide range of configuration, | + | The one I find myself turning to most often is Lite Tweaks. It presents a wide range of configuration, |
- | Other Lite programs include: | + | De plus, un excellent forum d' |
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+ | Lite Tweaks et autres suppléments Lite. | ||
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+ | Une fois la configuration initiale faite, vous trouverez une foule d' | ||
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+ | Celui que j' | ||
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+ | **Other Lite programs include: | ||
• Lite Software – a selection of packages for simple installation – see screenshot below. | • Lite Software – a selection of packages for simple installation – see screenshot below. | ||
• Lite Sources – a way of selecting the most convenient repositories for your Lite Software. | • Lite Sources – a way of selecting the most convenient repositories for your Lite Software. | ||
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There are many details about this installation that make using and maintaining it much more agreeable than any other I have used - FOSS or proprietary - but it could be tedious to list them all. Instead I will highlight just one of its many virtues, namely, the ability to hibernate in a swift and reliable fashion. | There are many details about this installation that make using and maintaining it much more agreeable than any other I have used - FOSS or proprietary - but it could be tedious to list them all. Instead I will highlight just one of its many virtues, namely, the ability to hibernate in a swift and reliable fashion. | ||
- | Hibernation has always seemed a brilliant idea - just close down as you are and later resume with everything as it was. This was always over-promised until now, slow to close, even slower to reload, and often failing to reload properly. In fact, I gave up long ago trying to use it in Windows, and several Ubuntu-based distros still disable it by default. | + | Hibernation has always seemed a brilliant idea - just close down as you are and later resume with everything as it was. This was always over-promised until now, slow to close, even slower to reload, and often failing to reload properly. In fact, I gave up long ago trying to use it in Windows, and several Ubuntu-based distros still disable it by default.** |
- | Linux Lite enables it out-of-the-box (but see Lite Tweaks for the option to disable it). When selected, it closes down quite quickly - though my usual 30+ Firefox tabs do often prove a bit slow to digest - and it resumes only a little more slowly than a standard (typically speedy) boot. The process has improved throughout series 3 of the OS, and works brilliantly on my 11 yr old Core2Duo laptop (refurbished with 2GB memory and an SSD). | + | D' |
+ | • Les logiciels Lite, une sélection de paquets qui s' | ||
+ | • Les sources Lite, une façon de choisir les dépôts les plus commodes pour vos logiciels Lite. | ||
+ | • La notification des mises à jour Lite, pour pouvoir facilement régler la fréquence des rappels de mises à jour. | ||
+ | • Mise à niveau Lite, un utilitaire de mise à niveau pour passer à la prochaine mise à jour ponctuelle d'une série majeure, par ex., de 3.4 à 3.6. | ||
+ | • Le gestionnaire d' | ||
+ | • Les widgets Lite, un affichage système sympa pour le bureau basé sur Conky. | ||
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+ | Mise en veille, enfin fiable | ||
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+ | Beaucoup de détails dans cette installation rendent son utilisation et son entretien bien plus agréable que tout autre distrib. que j'ai utilisée, que ce soit FOSS ou propriétaire, | ||
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+ | La mise en veille a toujours paru une idée brillante, il suffit d' | ||
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+ | **Linux Lite enables it out-of-the-box (but see Lite Tweaks for the option to disable it). When selected, it closes down quite quickly - though my usual 30+ Firefox tabs do often prove a bit slow to digest - and it resumes only a little more slowly than a standard (typically speedy) boot. The process has improved throughout series 3 of the OS, and works brilliantly on my 11 yr old Core2Duo laptop (refurbished with 2GB memory and an SSD). | ||
Other Features To attract A New User? | Other Features To attract A New User? | ||
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A good range of software, of course, all accessible through a clearly laid out, configurable menu system – Synaptic is available as well as Lite Software, and new installations are always to be found in a sensible place in the XFCE Whisker menu, which can be additionally configured via a Settings menu program. | A good range of software, of course, all accessible through a clearly laid out, configurable menu system – Synaptic is available as well as Lite Software, and new installations are always to be found in a sensible place in the XFCE Whisker menu, which can be additionally configured via a Settings menu program. | ||
- | Linux Lite provides a simple default desktop that will be familiar in style to practically all users – menu button bottom left, in a panel with selected program launchers, a status bar for opened programs, a virtual desktop switcher, and an indicator bar. But XFCE 4.12 offers a number of flexible ways of configuring the desktop look and functionality to suit individual user wishes and sense of aesthetics. | + | Linux Lite provides a simple default desktop that will be familiar in style to practically all users – menu button bottom left, in a panel with selected program launchers, a status bar for opened programs, a virtual desktop switcher, and an indicator bar. But XFCE 4.12 offers a number of flexible ways of configuring the desktop look and functionality to suit individual user wishes and sense of aesthetics.** |
- | I have a 2006 Core2Duo laptop which suits this layout, but I also have an Acer Aspire V3-571 in typical widescreen format where I've found it helpful to set the panel vertically. | + | Linux Lite l' |
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+ | Une bonne gamme de logiciels, bien entendu, tous disponibles par un système de menus disposés clairement et paramétrables - Synaptic est disponible, ainsi que Lite Software et les nouvelles installations se trouvent toujours dans un endroit logique dans le menu XFCE Whisker, qui peut être configuré encore via un programme dans le menu Paramètres. | ||
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+ | Par défaut, Linux Lite fournit un bureau simple dont le style paraîtra familier à pratiquement tous les utilisateurs : bouton de menu en bas à gauche, dans un panneau avec des lanceurs de programme choisis, une barre d' | ||
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+ | **I have a 2006 Core2Duo laptop which suits this layout, but I also have an Acer Aspire V3-571 in typical widescreen format where I've found it helpful to set the panel vertically. | ||
Here I've embellished – perhaps over-embellished - the standard panel by using it in a vertical dual-row deskbar mode, inserting grouped launchers for many programs, and incorporating a window status panel, as well as notifications and indicator panels. It may be a bit fussy, but that's my fault – not the system' | Here I've embellished – perhaps over-embellished - the standard panel by using it in a vertical dual-row deskbar mode, inserting grouped launchers for many programs, and incorporating a window status panel, as well as notifications and indicator panels. It may be a bit fussy, but that's my fault – not the system' | ||
- | This to me epitomises the way attention has been paid to getting everything to work together consistently and reliably, and to the emphasis placed on usability for the ordinary user in the choices made in putting the distribution together and developing it. | + | This to me epitomises the way attention has been paid to getting everything to work together consistently and reliably, and to the emphasis placed on usability for the ordinary user in the choices made in putting the distribution together and developing it. ** |
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+ | J'ai un portable Core2Duo de 2006 qui convient à cette disposition, | ||
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+ | Dans cette machine-ci j'ai embelli - sans doute trop - le panneau standard en l' | ||
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+ | Pour moi, c'est l' | ||
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- | An OS For All Seasons | + | **An OS For All Seasons |
Although the name Linux Lite might make you assume it is geared primarily to low memory machines, in fact its consistency and flexibility make it suitable for many types of hardware, and user, and 2 of my machines now run it with 8GB RAM. I find too that the clarity of the Help Manual and the constructiveness of the Forum have enabled me to develop my knowledge and skill levels in Linux to a greater degree than with other Linux distros, which is highly satisfying. | Although the name Linux Lite might make you assume it is geared primarily to low memory machines, in fact its consistency and flexibility make it suitable for many types of hardware, and user, and 2 of my machines now run it with 8GB RAM. I find too that the clarity of the Help Manual and the constructiveness of the Forum have enabled me to develop my knowledge and skill levels in Linux to a greater degree than with other Linux distros, which is highly satisfying. | ||
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Help Manual www.linuxliteos.com/ | Help Manual www.linuxliteos.com/ | ||
Downloads linuxliteos.com/ | Downloads linuxliteos.com/ | ||
- | Linux Voice Desktop Review, Issue 26 May 2016, available under Creative Commons licence. Linux Voice is now part of Linux / Linux Pro Magazine, see www.linux-magazine.com/ | + | Linux Voice Desktop Review, Issue 26 May 2016, available under Creative Commons licence. Linux Voice is now part of Linux / Linux Pro Magazine, see www.linux-magazine.com/ |
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+ | Un système d' | ||
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+ | Bien que le nom Linux Lite puisse vous faire supposer que la distrib. soit faite principalement pour des machines sans beaucoup de mémoire, en fait sa flexibilité et sa fiabilité font en sorte qu' | ||
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+ | À mon avis, le fait que ses besoins matériels soient limités est un avantage, puisque la raison principale de son installation est sa grande utilité. Pour quiconque trouve que leur OS a tendance à les empêcher de faire de l' | ||
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+ | Références | ||
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+ | Page d' | ||
+ | Support de Linux Lite | ||
+ | Base de données de matériel | ||
+ | Manuel d' | ||
+ | Téléchargements | ||
+ | Linux Voice Desktop Review, numéro 26 de mai 2016, disponible sous licence Creative Commons. Linux Voice fait maintenant partie de Linux/Lnux Pro Magazine, à www.linux-magazine.com/ | ||
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