Linux Lite 6.2 RC1 Released

[Şerban S.]

My "review" of LL 6.2 RC1 is posted here. Kind of a non-technical look at my own experience of it so far.

I read it! Nice touch!
The Panel problem appears heretically, though. I had it many times, even in my Linux Mint time (that is: since July 2012) then got away then got back, etc...
For the last 12 months or so, I got a quiet time though. Hope it will last longer. But... Since nothing is "nailed", anything is possible.
As Jerry said, the XFCE team seems to put it under the rug... Nothing to do, but wait for a real fix.

Thanks for your work and
Best regards!

[Valtam]

Sent a reminder message to Sean Davis from XFCE. See what happens. It's happened in Mint and other OS's. I'm not going to upgrade the entire XFCE system just to fix one thing. I take the responsibility of providing a stable system very seriously.

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[Şerban S.]

Hello, everybody!

I spent some time to test Linux Lite RC 1.
I did it in a virtual machie and I made a video.
I hope you will enjoy it!
Bottom line:
Everything went OK: UEFI, GPT partitioning, using Network (LAN) during install and after, Update (21 items), Lite Software, Chrome, etc. It's all in the video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQUlMk47_6U

Best regards!

[Valtam]

Well done

[Şerban S.]

Well done

Thanks!
I just noticed I forgot to start System Monitoring Center, to show some machine data while running the OS and Apps...
Maybe I'll add a short video to show this too.

Best regards!

[Valtam]

Most of the data is accurate. The Memory is not. That will get sorted out in the future.

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[Şerban S.]

Most of the data is accurate. The Memory is not. That will get sorted out in the future.

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I've done my best to get to the closest setup in VBox, to be able to emulate some old computer. I figured out that a 1 CPU 1 thread and 8 GB of RAM, would be close to a Dual Core / Core2Duo, 2 core 2 threads or even 4 threads and 4 GB RAM DDR 3. In a previous test with 4 GB RAM, it also worked, but was visibly slower.
Watching again the performance video, I noticed that the RAM consumption went from 900 - 950 up to 1500 MB, using Chrome, OpenShot (2.6.1 AppImage), SimpleScreenRecorder, System Monitoring Center, DoubleCommander and having VLC opened, but idle. I also used a HDD instead of SSD emulation (.vdi).
The lowest level, was at about 780 - 800 MB, on idle (almost, except for System Monitoring Center). Nothing on Startup though, except for Keyboard layout applet.
What was "on the brink" was CPU load: 100% for each active application, whatever was that.
This leads me to the conclusion that LL 6.x works fine on any machine around 2010, maybe even older, but having a 64 bit CPU and 4 GB RAM.
I can test on an ASUS M200A (Celeron N2830, 2 GB onboard RAM) but it will take some time to do all required tasks.
It's kind of a netbook (12" display). I think it is a 2014 - 2015 machine. I had some LL 3.6 ... LL 4.x  versions on it. The latest I had on it, I guess was LL 5.6. All worked well enough, except Chrome, that eats tons of RAM and slows down everything. Still, I never got any RAM warnings. I remember setting some 6 or 8 GB of swap so maybe this was helpful.
Now, depending on how much spare time I can put into this idea, we'll see how this works on a low resources, old machine.

Thanks for the answers!
Best regards!

[Şerban S.]

Linux Lite 6.2 RC 1 running on real low resources hardware!

I finally managed to install the LL 6.2 RC 1 on ASUS X200 MA.
I also posted the Lite Info report on the hardware database.

You can see the all the specs here:

https://www.freecinema2022.gq/hardware_res...ch_results

It is the first entry on the 4th of October 2022, at 19:45' (server time, I guess) .

I hope this is enough proof that LL 6.x can run on old machines, like from 2014, and with as low as 2 GB (1,8 actually!) of RAM DDR 3.

The only downside, is internet browsing with Chrome, which is very slow, but still usable.
Maybe using Brave, works better. Still have to test it.

Best regards!

[vint]

@Serban,
This is all very good info for us old machines, Chrome is a no go for me and if I were to step up to LL 6.0 I would uninstall and use Mozilla.  My Compaq Presario has 2ghz and 4 GB of ram and I don't have much trouble with LL 5.8 doing anything that I use a computer for so I appreciate your work keeping all of old machines updated.  By the way I updated to Mozilla 105.0.2 this morning without any problems, thanks.

Best regards,

[Şerban S.]

@Serban,
[...]  My Compaq Presario has 2ghz and 4 GB of ram.[...]

Thanks for the reply!

The idea of installing it, was to see if it still works, given the low amount of RAM: 1,8 GB with some MBs shared for the video chipset (128 MB I guess, dynamically allocated). Which represents THE problem...
However, for other tasks, office like, it is still good enough!
I can watch YouTube videos, but this requires closing all other running Apps, and having a single document in Chrome, two, at most...

[...]  By the way I updated to Mozilla 105.0.2 this morning without any problems, thanks.

Oh, that is great news! So, we made some steps forward, using (the) new(est) software on old hardware!

Best regards!
Șerban