upgrade from Lubuntu 12 LTS to Lubuntu 14 LTS on the extremely old desktop?

[Herminio Hernandez, Jr.]

We all got bills, just run the build command leave the computer, do what
you gotta do, come back and you should be done :)

On Sun, Aug 9, 2015 at 8:14 PM, Fritz Hudnut <este.el.paz at gmail.com> wrote:

> @AG:
>
> Thanks for the emotional support, yes, sniff, it's a lonely world in linux
> PPC . . . nobody calls, nobody "likes" my posts . . . the devs don't
> respond to bug reports . . . .  : - (((((
>
> But, sure, 450 MHz is "OK" for many local tasks, it just gets totally
> overwhelmed in places like FB . . . .
>
> @HH:
>
> Appreciate the reply as well, however, "get down to the terminal" . . .
> right, but for what?  I do use the terminal for routine upgrades, but,
> having spent time in fink and mintppc, where upgrades/installs took 8
> hours, during which something would invariably break, I've moved on to the
> more stable systems like the 'buntu flavors, that don't take so much time
> and attention to just get them to run.  Like, if there was a wiki on how to
> update xfce to 4.10 or 4.12 while in 12.04, and the CL instructions were
> detailed . . . I could maybe find the time.  But, compiling a kernel??  Too
> many things to do that I'm already ignoring . . . I've got "bills" . . .
> "bills" . . . "bills" . . . .  : - )
>
> F
>
> On Sun, Aug 9, 2015 at 4:37 PM, Herminio Hernandez, Jr. <
> herminio.hernandezjr at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Fritz,
>>
>> I would strongly encourage you getting down to the command line. It will
>> help you so much with Linux on PPC. I think once you get started you will
>> see that tasks like applying patches, building .deb files, even compiling a
>> kernel are not as daunting as they may sound. You will definitely feel that
>> you are more in control of your computing freedom.
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 9, 2015 at 6:10 PM, Aere Greenway <Aere at dvorak-keyboards.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On 08/09/2015 04:37 PM, Fritz Hudnut wrote:
>>>
>>>> But, this JWM for PPC has been mentioned before, perhaps by the time
>>>> you have the time to do that, might be around when all support for 12.04 is
>>>> dropped . . . .  It's "hard" to work with a 450 MHz processor these days.
>>>>
>>> Fritz:
>>>
>>> I know (thanks to your reporting) that PPC support (or lack of such) is
>>> its own 'bag of worms', unfortunately.  I am impressed with your dogged
>>> determination in trying to solve the many problems strewn in your path.
>>>
>>> But at least in the Intel world, I have a 450 megahertz HP Vectra test
>>> machine, and it works with Lubuntu 14.04, 14.10, and now (more recently)
>>> with Lubuntu 15.04 (15.04 tested-out better than 14.10).
>>>
>>> It runs my MIDI music tests, including running Qsynth, Qjactctl,
>>> Rosegarden, and Java.  It played a demanding MIDI sequence without a single
>>> under-run error in qjackctl being reported.
>>>
>>> That being said, it is a slow machine, that I would not recommend to
>>> anyone.  Its best use is probably for me as a minimum-system test machine.
>>> But someone could use it, if they were motivated to.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Sincerely,
>>> Aere
>>>
>>>
>>
>
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