There is an interesting selection of programs and accessories, with over 50 entries on the Settings menu, including over a dozen custom Linux Lite tools. The desktop is Xfce, with a custom theme called Materia, and the powerline custom shell prompt. Neither Snap nor Flatpak are preinstalled. It has Google Chrome in place of Firefox, which is probably more helpful to more people. KDE 5.26 gets a second point release (yes, already).RIP: Kathleen Booth, the inventor of assembly language.
Google kills forthcoming JPEG XL image format in Chromium.Linux world gains ability to repair exFAT drives.If you work through the buttons, under the Upgrading heading, there's a big blue button labelled Upgrade to 6.2 – even on a newly installed 6.2 system.įor a distro that bills itself as "Your first simple, fast and free stop in the world of Linux," we feel that this kind of thing is confusing and unhelpful. Then, when installed, it still has the INSTALL NOW button front and center, which, again, won't work. So it offers to install updates on a live system, which won't work. The welcome screen at startup is a good thing, but it really should detect and reflect whether it's running from the live installation medium or an installed system – but it doesn't. Linux Lite 6.2's Welcome screen offers to install the OS, even if it's already installed It would fit into 12GB – a full installation takes 9.5GB, including 1.7GB of swap file – but the installer balks at anything less than 16GB. As we said when looking at version 6.0, it won't even try to install on the same spec of VM that we used when testing the official Ubuntu remixes in August. Despite the name, this is not a lightweight distro. Somehow, here at The Reg FOSS desk, we feel that this reflects the slightly confused (or confusing) identity of this distro. This release improves upon 6.0 with numerous UI enhancements, updates to many Linux Lite applications, the newest stable LibreOffice, Lite Upgrade has a new end dialogue, there's a new Video Editor in Lite Software and much more.Īlthough a link to the announcement is right on the distro's homepage, the announcement itself is somewhat buried, eight posts down in a forum post in a thread asking for help on an installation error… and in testing, we immediately got the same error. This release is mostly comprised of UI adjustments, up to date software and bug fixes.