[lubuntu-devel] Lubuntu-devel Digest, Vol 7, Issue 29

Thu Apr 28 15:05:28 UTC 2016

Hi Jim,

there are a selection of wiki links at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/Testing/PPC. You can post to the forum or
ask on here if you cannot see the question resolved using those resources.

Regards,

Phill.

On 28 April 2016 at 14:13, jim northrop <james.b.northrop at googlemail.com>
wrote:

> Could anyone pls advise on appropriate place to post sound card issues for
> Lbuntu 16.4 on apple iMac PPC kit ?
> thx.
>
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>> Today's Topics:
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>>    1. Re:  OBI (Nio Wiklund)
>>
>>
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> Message: 1
>> Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2016 23:32:28 +0200
>> From: Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund at gmail.com>
>> To: "Phill. Whiteside" <phillwuk at gmail.com>
>> Cc: lubuntu-devel <lubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com>, lubuntu user list
>>         <Lubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
>> Subject: Re: [lubuntu-devel] OBI
>> Message-ID: <57212FEC.7070704 at gmail.com>
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>>
>> Hi Phill,
>>
>> *Xenial 32-bit tarball*
>>
>> I made a minimal portable text screen system from the Ubuntu Xenial
>> 32-bit mini.iso. This system is very small, and it is not affected too
>> much by the current bugs. I hope to make a corresponding system from the
>> 64-bit mini.iso in the near future, (before I make Lubuntu specific
>> tarballs).
>>
>> The tarball
>>
>> Xenial-32-txt.tar.xz   # user: guru, password: changeme
>>
>> is uploaded to your website
>>
>> http://phillw.net/isos/linux-tools/OBI/trusty/tarballs/
>>
>> and it can be installed easily with the current One Button Installer,
>>
>> dd_blank-obi_7.8GB_32_LubuntuTrusty.img.xz
>>
>> There are menu options in the installed minimal text screen system to
>> make it is easy to build one of the desktop flavours: Lubuntu Core,
>> standard Lubuntu and also the other main Ubuntu flavours plus a really
>> light-weight system with Fluxbox. See the following links
>>
>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/OBI
>>
>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/OBI/Xenial-32-txt
>>
>> When used months later, new (and debugged) program packages will be
>> installed. I hope and think that this tarball will be useful for a long
>> time.
>>
>> Best regards
>> Nio
>>
>> Den 2016-04-23 kl. 01:35, skrev Nio Wiklund:
>> > Hi Phill,
>> > [inlines]
>> > Best regards
>> > Nio
>> >
>> > Den 2016-04-22 kl. 20:12, skrev Phill. Whiteside:
>> >> I've taken the liberty of pasting the 1st part of your answer about
>> >> mkusb and time scale for OBI to the lubuntu-facebook page.
>> >
>> > That's fine :-)
>> >
>> >> Thanks,
>> >>
>> >> Phill.
>> >>
>> >> On 22 April 2016 at 19:05, Phill. Whiteside <phillwuk at gmail.com
>> >> <mailto:phillwuk at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>     32 bit, 64 bit, ppc - alternate and desktop :) That's 6
>> >
>> > I see. But I would say that it reduces to two versions: 32-bit and
>> > 64-bit PC.
>> >
>> > The installed systems of the desktop and alternate ISOs should be rather
>> > similar, and I have no access to any PPC. So I think there will be two
>> > Lubuntu tarballs for the OBI, maybe one mini version too.
>> >
>> > -o-
>> >
>> > I have not tried, but it is possible that mkusb works in PPC. It needs
>> > bash and some tools (for example pv and zenity), and they should be
>> > available in older versions of Lubuntu for PPC. But I don't think it
>> > works in MacOS, even if there is bash. It is probably too different.
>> >
>> >>     Regards,
>> >>
>> >>     Phill.
>> >>
>> >>     On 22 April 2016 at 17:47, Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund at gmail.com
>> >>     <mailto:nio.wiklund at gmail.com>>
>> >> wrote:
>> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2321035&p=13474909#post13474909
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>         Den 2016-04-22 kl. 18:27, skrev Phill. Whiteside:
>> >>
>> >>             Hiyas,
>> >>
>> >>             some people having issues with USB sticks.... You can
>> follow
>> >>             on Fb
>> >>             ubuntu-official [1]... At present, with others failing I
>> can
>> >>             only
>> >>             suggest disk-destroyer - which is scary with a sudo for
>> >>             people not
>> >>             overly familiar with CLI and finding devices.
>> >>
>> >>             So, OBI for all 6 versions, please :D :D
>> >>
>> >>             Many thanks,
>> >>
>> >>             Phill.
>> >>             1. https://www.facebook.com/groups/lubuntu.official/
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>         Hi Phill,
>> >>
>> >>         The first option would be to suggest mkusb, which works
>> >>         seamlessly across the versions, and mkusb-nox for text mode. It
>> >>         works now.
>> >>
>> >>         https://help.ubuntu.com/community/mkusb
>> >>
>> >>         I intend to make Xenial tarballs for the OBI, but had planned
>> to
>> >>         wait for at least a couple of weeks, maybe one month, to get
>> rid
>> >>         of the worst remaining bugs - and create a nice installed
>> system
>> >>         up to date via update/dist-upgrade.
>> >>
>> >>         Please explain what do you mean by all 6 versions: different
>> >>         Lubuntu iso files or Kubuntu, Lubuntu, ... Xubuntu), or
>> >>         time-wise versions Precise ... Xenial?
>> >>
>> >>         Best regards
>> >>         Nio
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>>
>>
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