 One of the neat things about Linux is that it will allow you to use hardware long beyond what you'd normally be able to use it If you ran something like Windows or Mac It wasn't too long ago when Windows 11 came out that we learned that Microsoft was going to Arbitrarily limit the amount of hardware that Windows would run on so if you ran something that was just two or three years old You may not be able to upgrade to Windows 11 now Since then they've walked that back a little bit and there's been workarounds and all this stuff But the point is is that Microsoft very often limits the amount what hardware their operating system will run on That's not something that ever really happens on Linux Even if certain support for certain hardware is pulled out of the kernel There are still distributions out there running kernels that will allow you to run Whatever you want there are still plenty of distributions out there that will support 32 bit and allow you to use Hardware that is 15 maybe even 20 years old and even beyond older hardware There are a lot of distributions out there that will allow you to run Linux on Systems that just have low amount of resources One of those distributions is Linux light and that's what we're going to be taking a look at today The most recent version of Linux late is version 5.8 now if you have never heard of Linux light before I Wouldn't be surprised because it's not a distribution that a lot of people have ever heard of it's Moderately popular I would say but it's not something that is in the mainstream It's not like a boon to or arch or something like that I have done a review on it before for the last major version and what I thought I'd do today is take a look at what's new And we'll run through a small installation of it so you can actually see what it is now like I said This is based on a boon to and it has several new features that are really cool So let's go ahead and jump in with Linux light 5.8 So this is the Linux light ISO in a virtual box now Before we jump into this too far Let me just say that I'm sorry about the big gigantic honking bars around this I can't get it to go full screen I'll mess around with the resolution here in a few minutes once we get it installed But I can't seem to get virtual box to go full screen and men jar. I don't know why it just is something that's going wrong But anyways, you don't care about that. Let's just go ahead and jump in So this is Linux light and we're gonna go ahead and first before we jump into the new features Go ahead and install it. So do this now. This appears to be the ubiquity installer So we'll go ahead and install this is the same install that you'll get if you just install vanilla boon to English is fine. That's the right keyboard layout We don't need to download updates. We'll do that afterwards and it will install a third-party stuff I usually do it that way and go ahead and continue and then install now and Then continue that's a proper time zone. So we'll go ahead and enter a username and that's fine And we'll enter a very complicated password and we'll go ahead and continue and it should start installing So I will cut the video here and we'll come back when it's done Okay, so that took about four minutes or so. Let's go ahead and hit the restart button We'll see if the ISO was removed from virtual box. Sometimes it is sometimes. It's not we'll see how that goes Looks like it's gonna load up just fine, which is good Okay, now that we've rebooted out of the ISO and into the Installed and installed distro. We can go ahead enter our password and then I'm gonna attempt to Change the display resolution. We'll see if this actually works We should be able to type in display which we can and then we'll see if we can find 1920 by 1080 here a few moments later and after some fiddling As you can see, this is as big as I was able to get it 1920 by 1080 wasn't an option So I can go through and install install guest additions and get the display working properly But it probably still wouldn't work because this virtual box hates me and everything I've ever stood for So I'm just gonna go ahead and move on I've wasted enough time trying to get that fixed. So let's talk about new features Actually before we do that, let's go ahead and quickly run through the welcome screens We got up install updates install drivers set restore point install language support and select darker light themes Let's go ahead and click on that because we want the dark theme. Okay, so apparently Interestingly enough the dark theme doesn't actually apply to the welcome screen, but that's not that big of a deal So let's see. Is there a way to go back? So this is just one long screen, but there is a home button up here Okay, that's good And I will go ahead and run updates So control alt T does bring up a terminal and we get a stylized bash prompt I believe this is back. So if we run neofetch And I happen to know the neofetch is actually installed. This is the bash shell. It's 5.17 We have a kernel of 5.4. So this is going to be based on Ubuntu LTS I believe if that's the kernel and this is Xfce. So this is a very lightweight desktop environment and Xfce has always been known for very low resource usage. Their theme that they've chosen is adapta So if you're familiar with manjaro, that's about the same theme that they use in all their distros as well So you'll expect something that looks really pretty. So I'm going to go ahead and run updates here So I'm going to pseudo apt update and and pseudo apt upgrade and enter a password So there are a few updates And we'll let that go and while that's running We'll go ahead and go back to the welcome screen So we have links for online support and other things like the help manual forums and so on and so forth We have ways of contributing and then we have the install button now. Here's the thing I booted into this and saw that that big install now thing was there And the thing is this I am installed like this is the actual Installed distro the ISO is no longer attached to virtual box. So it's installed on a hard drive yet They're still an install button So that's kind of annoying and kind of confusing because if you re log into Your system and you still see install now, you'll think well, did I install it or did I just imagine that four minutes And maybe I was delusional through the whole thing, but no I'm I'm installed. I checked So I don't know why the install buttons is still there. So we're going to go and click that and it close Now I'm wondering if the install thing is still here No, let's see if there's not like an install Linux light in the menu. So I don't know why that button was still there. So the the updates are installed now, which is good I'm going to go ahead and do a reboot here And then when we come back We will check and see for memory usage and stuff like that and then we'll run through the new features Okay, so we're going to open up a terminal And I'll zoom in a little bit. So if I do Unamed dash a we're going to see that kernel again, which is 5.4 and then we do free Dash m we'll get to see this is running at 528 megs out of the box Which is Very low compared to almost every other desktop environments in distro that you'll probably find out there now I've seen some run less But 500 is still really good. It's about half of what you'd expect from both kde and genom So this is very good for low end hardware Now that we've checked that let's go ahead and run through a few of the new features So we have an updated papyrus theme. So if we go through and take a look at the Applications here, you'll see that it now uses the papyrus Adapta a theme. I believe is what this is called. I don't know what these look like before but the papyrus theme has always been really good We also have several new wallpapers. So yeah, this was one of the new wallpapers And then this is one of the new wallpapers here And This is one of the new wallpapers here And uh, it doesn't I don't know what the other nine are but probably the rest of these around here as well well So that it has some really nice wallpapers They also have some linux light themed wallpapers that have the logo in them as well So those are probably the ones that used by default. So we can close that This is also the first version of linux light that comes in neofetch install. So we've already run this but I highly appreciate them installing by default because it means I don't have to go through and install it before I can show You guys the screen. So that's nice. Now We also apparently have a brand new widget and the interesting thing is that they don't enable it by default So usually when distros have conkeys, they've gone through and they just put it on the The desktop no matter what and you have to turn it off if you don't like it So we're just going to go ahead and enable that and this is what their conky looks like I'm going to go ahead and move My face out of the way so you can actually it's wrong button. Hello Anyways, this is what their linux light widget looks like this is based on conky. So it has cpu usage Total memory used logged in as your username firewall status disabled and then update status. So it says your system was recently updated I wish I had the actual date there when it was updated. That'd be cool But anyways, that is conky now like all conkeys. You can't actually move that around Easily sometimes there's a key binding to do it. I know mx linux has a Key binding to do it, but this doesn't appear to but you could always go through and Change the conky configuration file if you want to change the location of that as well Another thing that they've included in this release is something called mint stick Although if you search for mint stick in the menu, you won't get this At the top, it'll actually be at the bottom But basically what this is is a usb image writer So if you wanted to burn an iso to a usb stick This is going to be your tool that you'll have installed biddy fault If you don't want to install something like etcher or something like that So we can close this other minor tweaks include an updated help manual Which is which we can actually see here Yes, thank you firefox go away. Here we go So this is what their help manual looks like you can go through and learn pretty much everything you want to do Right here now one of the things I've always liked about linux late is that they do a fantastic job With documentation they always have and you can really tell that they are Pointing this towards new users and allowing them to Find out stuff on their own about their outbring system by creating a basic manual for them to use So that that's pretty much it in terms of actual new features So let's just go ahead and take a small look at all the applications that they have here Most of this stuff is going to be your run of the mill xfc style stuff The same kind of stuff that comes with pretty much every xfc and abutu based distro So we got genome disks. We have probably a graphical interface for ufw Font manual help manual a high dpi setting. So if you have a high dpi monitor, which is really nice to have that here We have a gimp installed by default Install drivers keyboard. Most of this stuff is going to be for xfc settings. So this is a light desktop It'll allow you to go through and enable enable or disable the icons here along the side And a lot of this stuff is going to be in the control panel as well So they're calling this the control panel. Usually if you're using xfc You're just going to see this called the settings manager or xfc settings It it does have all the linux light tools that they've developed So for example, the things we just saw like the light desktop We have the light info which which will usually give all the information about your Computer, but this is a virtual machine. So it's not going to actually work light network shares So i'm assuming this is probably Yep, this is samba. We can go ahead and quit that. I don't need to set that up But that's nice that that's there light software. This is going to be the software store So what is this actually? Would you like to update your software sources now? So that's probably running uh app update So we're going to install software And this is their little software Store now you can go through and install things like addacity and dropbox and all this stuff There is quite a bit here, but it's not the most extensive quote unquote store that you'll ever see It doesn't seem to limit itself to just open store software because we have chrome here as well So it looks like it's trying to hit the high points. So things like plan linux steam is here Skype is here spotify things like that the the most popular applications seem to be here including Microsoft edge so for those people who like edge could also install that So this isn't obviously all of the software that you can install You could pretty much install anything you want using apt or install something like snap or flat pack But if you want a GUI application for installing software, this is what you got So go ahead and go here and we can quit that and you can also apparently use that to remove software The they have the light user manager light upgrades going to be done for Upgrading packages like tweaks. I wonder what this is for. So this is a like a multi-purpose tool That will allow you to go through and run certain tasks. So for example, it will do a boot up feature Which I'd assume probably would run Something to help fix grub. There's a clear memory preference here. There's a clearing a whole bunch of different caches Yeah, there's a an option to remove old kernels an option to install a new kernel Changing the host name finding very large files save session Num lock and stuff like that. So this tool looks like it's for More advanced users most new users are probably never going to get into this But if you want something to go through and find an advanced tool to light tweaks Application looks like it's something that you'd be interested in doing So let's go ahead and quit there and it looks like you actually before we do that Looks like you can go through and select multiple things and you could do multiple of these tasks at a time that begin Let's quit that so That's linux light very quickly. It is a very good Linux distribution based on Ubuntu That is meant for lower-end computers or older computers that aren't they don't have a lot of resources to run And I like that about it. I don't think that it's flashy. It doesn't have a ton of tools. It has a few but it doesn't have a lot It they've done a good job of making it pretty so that you can because a lot of the distributions that are really meant for older And hardware are kind of ugly out of the box Like you can obviously go through and tweak them so they look better but in my opinion a lot of the older ones tend to Emulate windows 98 a lot of the time And it's not anything that looks all that great with this it looks really nice So if we actually go back to this just real quick Like we open up we didn't actually open up go through and open up any applications like this theme Is very nice looking. There's nothing to complain about here It looks very nice. And that's not something that is often something you can say about a distribution that is meant to run on low-end hardware A lot of the times those don't look all that great add on top of this that this is a boon to And it gives you an access to it a lot of software Also, it is based on the LTS. So you're going to go through and find that this is a very Stable distribution, which is something that most people who Run a boon to our boon to a boon to base distros really want So that is linux lite 5.8. It's one of those distributions that every time it comes out. I was like, oh, yeah, that's really good I'm glad that exists. It's not necessarily for me Because I don't really need a low resource distro But for those of you who do you should definitely check it out If you have comments on linux lite, you can leave those in the comments section below You can follow me on twitter at the linux cast You can support me on patreon at patreon.com slash linux cast Before I go I'd like to take a moment to thank my current patrons Cid a dev on patrick l primus marcus maglind jack snipe tool steve a separate linux eric Mitchell art center carbon did jeremy shawn odin martin e merrick camp drash li j dog peter a crucible dirt benethix and blad a Thanks everybody for watching. 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