News Linux Lite Gets Upd to Version 5.8

[Admin]

Lightweight OS Linux Lite gets upd to Version 5.8 which adds several new tidbits including new wallpapers, a new icon pack, and new widgets.

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[Grobe]

This is a very nice distro. If you love Linux Mint, you probably love this one too.

 

[TJ Hooker]

Isn't running a 2+ year old kernel version (5.4) a bit iffy? Or do they have security fixed backported (like Debian does IIRC)? Although even then, only bug fixed that get assigned a CVE are back port candidates from what I understand, which won't capture every bug with security implications.

Edit: Derp, as pointed out below, LTS kernel versions are a thing.

 

[artk2219]

Isn't running a 2+ year old kernel version (5.4) a bit iffy? Or do they have security fixed backported (like Debian does IIRC)? Although even then, only bug fixed that get assigned a CVE are back port candidates from what I understand, which won't capture every bug with security implications.

The LTS versions are provided support for 5 years, meaning it'll be supported until 2025, similar to how windows 10 was released in 2015 but will receive support until 2025. They'll probably replace the core this year with whatever LTS comes out, 22.04 maybe? They release LTS versions every two years.

 

[Heat_Fan89]

This is a very nice distro. If you love Linux Mint, you probably love this one too.

Yes to the above. Linux Mint is still the best distro from a Windows to Linux users perspective. Linux Mint 20.3 (Una) was recently released. Mint feels and runs like a commercial operating system.

I’ve been a huge fan of Mint since 2009 but now I prefer Manjaro because it’s not as resource heavy as Mint.

 

[Grobe]

I’ve been a huge fan of Mint since 2009 but now I prefer Manjaro because it’s not as resource heavy as Mint.

Well, I just dug up one of the old laptop from 2002 and it was running Mint 18.03 32 bit xfce and the memory usage on idle was less than 400 MB. But as the most recent versions lies about 700-800 MB at idle.

 

[Heat_Fan89]

Well, I just dug up one of the old laptop from 2002 and it was running Mint 18.03 32 bit xfce and the memory usage on idle was less than 400 MB. But as the most recent versions lies about 700-800 MB at idle.

Memory isn't the problem however CPU load is. The CPU cores idle between 4-9%. If I run Chrome, Firefox, MS Edge my cores will average 35% on several cores (Quad CPU). If i'm watching Pluto TV in any of the web browsers, they start to push 50% on average. That's Mint.

Manjaro my CPU cores idle at 0-1% on all 4 cores. If i'm running Chrome with Pluto TV, the cores will hit between 4-8%. I have found that Mint has always been resource heavy. On several laptops, they would run very warm and sometimes the fan would kick to high if I did anything besides the basics

 

[martinch]

Looks like an interesting distro.

Memory isn't the problem however CPU load is ... That's Mint

All I can say is that Mint 19.3 gave a very acceptable user experience on my relatives' dual-core i3-4330 - it was always pretty snappy, and you never heard the CPU fan (I can't say I ever had cause to monitor the CPU usage in any detail).