Lubuntu + MATE? Compatible? or issues?

[Fritz Hudnut]

Aere:

I believe you are correct, possibly on all fronts . . . but particularly on
the "official" release of 14.10.  I might have been lulled into submission
on the belief that this MATE 14.04 PPC spin was "LTS" . . . and it might
be.  The Ubuntu part of it should be LTS . . . clearly the MATE part of it
is "STS" . . . .  Such is the life of the PPC acolyte . . . wandering from
powerpc.iso to powerpc.iso in search of something fairly up to date to run
the machine that is still running and able to get the basics covered.

Over in my MBPro I've had numerous LM versions and out of a fair number of
installs the MATE flavors have been the most stable, so I went for it on
this one . . . I'd be a little happier if it was just the MATE DE part that
imploded, but it seems to have reached over to the Ubuntu part and trying
to stack a new DE on top didn't get it passed the problems.  I'm going to
boot up the Lu 14 desktop and give it a test . . . might fiddle with a
"netboot" installer while I'm at it . . . the installs don't take too long;
it's getting all the details arranged that takes the time . . . wifi . . .
browsers . . . sound . . . .  Big sucking sound on time spent when the
system breaks . . . .

F

On Sat, Apr 11, 2015 at 2:40 PM, Aere Greenway <Aere at dvorak-keyboards.com>
wrote:

> On 04/11/2015 12:34 PM, Fritz Hudnut wrote:
>
>> right now I have been sticking with LTS, so I have 14.04.2 . . . and
>> possibly it was the upshift to the .2 that busted itself . . . due to the
>> "post ipso facto"??? nature of the conjoining of Ubuntu + MATE for PPC was
>> not "factory issue" --it was a "spin"?? . . . and possibly that was
>> adjusted for the betterwith 14.10 or 15.04? . . . not counting that PPC is
>> not supported in 15.04????  nor is it LTS.
>>
> Fritz:
>
> As I understand it, 14.10 was the first "official" release of UbuntuMATE,
> which is why I installed that version.  I was not aware I could get any
> earlier version, and if I could, it wouldn't officially be Long Term
> Support, because (I think) Ubuntu requires a new Ubuntu variant to be
> in-existence a certain amount of time before they are allowed to offer a
> LTS version.
>
> It is possible my understanding of this is incorrect.
>
> --
> Sincerely,
> Aere
>
>
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