[Lubuntu-wiki-docs] End Of Life..

[David Gumberg]

For those of you who are wondering, the reason older machines can't run
12.10 or 12.04, it's because the kernel uses PAE (it's a method to have
more than 4 gigs of ram on a 32-bit operating system I think), and for
those of you who have hardware that doesn't support PAE, the two good
alternatives are LXLE and Fedora (LXDE spin). If you want something more
upstream, go with the Fedora, but if for some reason you ABSOLUTELY HAVE TO
have that Debian/buntu experience I'd go with LXLE (Lubuntu Extra-Life
Edition), it's Lubuntu 12.04 with a couple of tweaks, and it uses a non-PAE
kernel. I've tried and used both of them, and and Fedora is a bit more
vanilla LXDE so I prefer it, but both alternatives are awesome!


On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 1:30 PM, Ali Linx (amjjawad) <amjjawad at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've been discussing this issue and Lubuntu 12.04 being 100% LTS or not
> [1] and all the confusion about "will Lubuntu still support my very old
> machine or not?" for the last two weeks or maybe more.
>
> Long story short, I will jump in and find out myself some if not all the
> answers that our users are seeking and looking for.
>
> http://phillw.net/isos/lubuntu/lucid/
> I'm downloading Lubuntu 10.04 right now from the above link.
>
> I will install it once done on my test machine.
> I need to see myself what is going on and the EOL for the 10.04 Desktop
> version is coming soon, less than a month. That will be really interesting
> :)
> As you know/may know, each release has different Kernel [2]. Some machines
> can't use 12.04 or 12.10 because the support had been dropped/stopped. So,
> if you guys have Qs about that, you do now know who is doing the test and
> experiments.
>
> Thank you!
>
> [1] - http://i46.tinypic.com/i24igz.jpg
>
> [2] -
> http://amjjawad.blogspot.com/2013/04/lubuntu-and-very-old-machines.html<http://amjjawad.blogspot.ae/2013/04/lubuntu-and-very-old-machines.html>
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 4:49 PM, Phill Whiteside <PhillW at ubuntu.com>wrote:
>
>> I have an update for 10.04
>>
>> *Ending Ubuntu Desktop support just means that we no longer release
>> desktop-
>> related updates, the repository won't (can't) go away and be archived,
>> since
>> server, as you note, still depends on it.  In that sense, lucid in general
>> is "supported" for another three years.  Nothing changes for people, they
>> just won't get non-server SRUs and security updates from Canonical, nor is
>> there a community commitment to make them.
>>
>> So, your users don't need to do anything.  Kernels will keep getting
>> updated,
>> and life goes on.*
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Phill.
>>
>>
>>  On 29 March 2013 21:21, Phill Whiteside <PhillW at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Folks,
>>>
>>> just so everyone knows. The up coming EOL dates were a little bit
>>> staggered on the exact dates. To bring everything together, the Release
>>> Team have decided upon the following.
>>>
>>> The following releases will all reach End Of Life on May 9th 2013.
>>>
>>> Hardy 8.04 (Server)
>>> Ubuntu 10.04 (Desk Top)
>>> Ubuntu 11.10
>>>
>>> As 10.04 is supported on server until 2015 thus giving such people at
>>> least a chance of still receiving kernel updates, I have asked if there is
>>> a way for the 10.04 lubuntu desktop to continue to receive the kernel
>>> updates for lubuntu 10.04 desktop for those of whom the dropping of the old
>>> chip sets is the only option they have.
>>>
>>> The area at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases has been updated by the
>>> team to reflect the revised dates.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Phill.
>>> --
>>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/phillw
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/phillw
>>
>> --
>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-wiki-docs
>> Post to     : lubuntu-wiki-docs at lists.launchpad.net
>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-wiki-docs
>> More help   : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> *Best Regards,
> amjjawad*
> *https://wiki.ubuntu.com/amjjawad/*
> Lubuntu One Stop Thread <http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1844755>|
> My Launchpad <https://launchpad.net/%7Eamjjawad> | My Ubuntu Forum Profile<http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=941822>
> **
>
> --
> Lubuntu-users mailing list
> Lubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Modify settings or unsubscribe at:
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-quality/attachments/20130409/a7908b58/attachment.html>