lighten Lite?

[trinidad]

Consumer home and personal small business computing is at an event horizon know it or not. I'd be surprised if Intel moves much beyond i7 on PCs in the next few years, while exponentially increasing server cpu speeds. I also expect Windows 10 on consumer boxes to be through with consumer owned software within five years. Computing will be done on servers in the cloud from licensed consumer devices. MSs main competition is Google, and the Android system is going to come to PCs with a vengeance in the consumer PC market soon after the release of Android O. Google chrome book was just a dabble. Ubuntu will follow the model and keep Linux alive.

TC   

[newtusmaximus]

My concern re "Androidification" of PCs becoming the norm is the security aspect.  Already Andoid phones are become vulnerable to exploitation through "infected" apps. 
Secondly I have no desire to go via the cloud when writing  etc.  want to keep security "at home"

[smhardesty]

Computing will be done on servers in the cloud from licensed consumer devices. MSs main competition is Google, and the Android system is going to come to PCs with a vengeance in the consumer PC market soon after the release of Android O. Google chrome book was just a dabble. Ubuntu will follow the model and keep Linux alive.
TC 

Let me be the first to say that if, and/or when, computing is done in the cloud and not on personally owned hardware, I'll be done with computing. Period. I will NEVER store data on a cloud server and will certainly not own a piece of hardware that will only allow me to use software on a server in the cloud. It will be a sad day, but I absolutely will never do it.  >

[Valtam]

Also keep in mind that we are Linux Lite. The 'light' is a core part of our name and brand. Making something lighter that is already light, will have it's consequences for the original brand. Please give that some thought. There are other considerations like the fact that we bundle an office suite and MS doesn't. We beat MS in many, many areas.

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[newtusmaximus]

Note your  basic ethos for LL  Jerry - Agree fully. However technically Addons via Lite Software would in fact be "bundled" albeit just one click away.  Everything in LS would have been optimised for LL, as have the other existing offerings. i.e plain sailing installation  i.e the worry/ hurdle of having to use synaptic has been removed??  Not more difficult  really than the new user having to download  updates ?

[Coastie]

... you guys can always spin up a custom distro under Systemback.

I watched a couple of You Tube videos and read http://linuxliteos.com/manual/tutorials.html#systemback  on Systemback. Having to worry about what to exclude and manual partitioning in order to install on other computers turned me off. When I was originally shopping for a distro, manual partitioning ruled out some distros. I know it should be simple but I am not interested in learning how. If there is not going to be a lighter version soon, I will just use the regular version and uninstall what is not needed and restrict what the guest can use.

[Artim]

There are plenty of lightweight distros.  Lots of awesome ones!  AntiX and MX14 come to mind instantly.  Then there's a bunch of Ubuntu-based ones, and of course you can get an iso of Ubuntu-core (or Xubuntu-Core, etc) and mix your own ultralight just-right-for-you mixture.

Linux Lite aims to be lite, but also to be good for newbies and novices to Linux.  That's a fine line to walk, and I honestly don't think anyone has done it better than Linux Lite.  Lightweight is easy.  Newbie-friendly is easy.  But combining the two in such wonderful balance is a phenomenal balancing act.  A lighter version of LL would lose much of the wonderful simplicity and easy learning curve that makes LL ideal for newcomers.

[bfb]

I particularly like Lite, and use only this distro on all my machines, because of the nice balance between Lite and well-selected ready-to-go software ...

[elelme]

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Computing will be done on servers in the cloud from licensed consumer devices. MSs main competition is Google, and the Android system is going to come to PCs with a vengeance in the consumer PC market soon after the release of Android O. Google chrome book was just a dabble. Ubuntu will follow the model and keep Linux alive.
TC 

Let me be the first to say that if, and/or when, computing is done in the cloud and not on personally owned hardware, I'll be done with computing. Period. I will NEVER store data on a cloud server and will certainly not own a piece of hardware that will only allow me to use software on a server in the cloud. It will be a sad day, but I absolutely will never do it.  >
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Steve, you and me both, buddy.

[rijnsma]

I'm not fanatic in this, but I feel something like it.  : Not 'safe' if that says anything nowadays.