Recommended applications

[Stephen Smally]

On 03/09/2012 01:52 PM, Cyber Penguin wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 12:21 PM, Yorvyk <yorvik.ubunto at googlemail.com 
> <mailto:yorvik.ubunto at googlemail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Fri, 9 Mar 2012 07:15:13 -0400
>     Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset <jpxsat at gmail.com
>     <mailto:jpxsat at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     > >
>     > > My suggestion when selecting apps for this list is that they
>     run on a
>     > > 300Mhz CPU with 128 MiB RAM
>     >
>     > Maybe a more suitable machine would be 500MHZ & 256MB Ram. Since all
>     > modifications and restrictions to the kernel this two years, I'm
>     in doubt
>     > that it's possible to install lubuntu (or any ubuntu flavour) on
>     a machine
>     > with the specs you're pointing! (no more i586, PAE, drop of
>     certain old
>     > graphic cards...) /  In the past I've installed Lubuntu 10.04 on
>     very old
>     > machines with very poor Ram, but now that somethings are dropped
>     the system
>     > simply does nothing :(
>     >
>     400Mhz CPU 192 MiB RAM?
>
>     > The questions are:
>     > - a Pentium 1 or 2 can run Lubuntu 12.04 ?
>     > - It's easy for a beginner to do that install or something more
>     than the
>     > usual has to be done?
>     >
>     > Correct me if I'm talking nonsense here, please!
>     >
>     Sort of :)
>     All Pentium class CPUs are i686 compatible (with a very small
>     number of exceptions).  I have installed on a 128 MiB machine with
>     a 200 Mhz PII using the alternate installer and run one app at a
>     time.  It was no more unpleasant than running Widows Vista on a
>     1.6Ghz Celeron and 1 GiB RAM (This not a joke!).  The idea of
>     setting the spec that low was to remind people what lightweight
>     really means as some people think that anything less then a
>     multi-core CPU is low spec.  The app should ideally run OK using
>     the basic VESA or fbdev video driver.
>
>
>     > Though, I'm kinda loving you're idea Yorvyk!! Those apps could
>     be included
>     > in LSC under "Lubuntu proposed" :)
>     >
>     Forgot to mention that bit.  After a bit of testing and a vote, it
>     would be nice to have a 'Lubuntu Recommended' section or stamp in
>     the LSC.
>
>
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>     Yorvyk
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> Good idea, with the name changed. 'Lubuntu proposed' is too close to 
> 'precise-proposed' (in Software Sources).
>
>
>

No problem for this, we don't need a software source entry, we can just 
use a file download by lsc.
example of lubuntu-proposed.list:
mplayer
audacious
abiword

and so on.
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