[lubuntu-devel] Switch from Lubuntu-Software-Center to Gnome-Software after Yakkety Alpha2 - Test needed

[Jan Holtman]

I have already installed Gnome software (like Xubuntu uses on my Lubuntu
16.04.1 installation.
The laptop is really slow and old, uses a Z520 processor. I haven't noticed
any negative impact on boot-up, Software as it is called after installing
is slow, but not that much slower than on Xubuntu which runs on a faster
computer

>From what i experienced I can recommend it for Lubuntu, even on a very slow
machine.

Met vriendelijke groet / Best regards,

Jan Holtman

oulik.jan at gmail.com <1%3Aoulik.jan at gmail.com>

<2%3Ajan.holtman at live.com>

On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 2:38 PM, Julien Lavergne <gilir at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> After the release of Yakkety Alpha2, I'll made a change for our
> software-center (LSC) to switch to the Gnome one (GC), also used on
> Ubuntu. The goal is to do some testing during the Yakkety release
> cycle, to see if it's working correctly on Lubuntu.
>
> There are many reasons for this switch :
> - LSC is not maintained anymore since years
> - LSC uses an old technology (aptdaemon), also not maintained since years
> - GC doesn't have too much Gnome specific depends.
> - GC is written in C (we can expect some memory optimization)
> - GC uses some modern technology : appstream, snap support ... and we
> can count on Ubuntu folks to add more stuff in the future
>
> However, it needs to work on low spec hardware, the ones we target for
> Lubuntu. That's the goal of the testing. If it's not fast enough, we
> will switch back to LSC.
>
> Any comments / suggestions are welcome, we are still in the middle of
> the release cycle for 16.10, so we have a bit of time. Even if we ship
> GC in 16.10, but we have negative feedbacks, we can also switch back
> for 17.04 (there are not LTS releases).
>
> Regards,
> Julien Lavergne
>
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