[ubuntu-us-ma] Oneiric Release

[James Gray]

Has any checked out latest lubuntu?  I found it to be the best low
memory ubuntu flavor back in 10.04 with lower memory requirements then
xubuntu.  Now that it is officially supported I am looking forward to
seeing the progress they've made.

On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 11:36 AM, Algot Runeman
<algot.runeman at verizon.net> wrote:
> On 10/14/2011 10:35 AM, Seth Woodworth wrote:
>>
>> Hi all.
>> ...
>>
>> I'm planning on rebuilding a computer lab of ~1.8ghz&  512mb computers
>> with Ubuntu in the next couple of weeks.  But with the Unity push,
>> does Ubuntu still support that old of machine?
>>
>>
> I'm very happy, so far, with the upgrade to Kubuntu 11.10. I'd already been
> up to the KDE 4.7.1, so the primary changes I have noticed so far have been
> the shift from Kpackagekit to Muon as the package manager, and the Kernel
> 3.0 in place.
>
> I was able to put Xubuntu 11.04 onto some very old Dell 4000 laptops, making
> them responsive with only 256Mb of RAM. Still working out some WiFi
> problems. Any suggestions would be welcome. The goal of the teacher who has
> them is to connect to Google Docs using Firefox which does work OK with the
> 256Mb. (By the way, the install worked better using the Xubuntu alternate
> CD. The Live CD gave me problems. You can look at my work notes here:
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/17_LF7yyWGGnhlOTbE8uMq6ZlTdroAafX-Snj6E-rGF4/edit?hl=en_US
>
> Anybody know of a cheap source of 256Mb PC 100 laptop memory chips? A
> donation would be even better. The New Bedford system doesn't seem ready to
> put money into these old computers which have been in a closet for about
> five years.
>
> Happy birthday KDE, 15 today!
>
> --Algot
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