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<DIV>i’d try the lastest version xubuntu 12.04 </DIV>
<DIV>rather than an old 2010 version,</DIV>
<DIV>see if it works off a live CD before installing it.</DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=davidwalland@googlemail.com
href="mailto:davidwalland@googlemail.com">David Walland</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, 08 September, 2013 21:50</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com
href="mailto:xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">Xubuntu Support and User
Discussions</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [xubuntu-users] Is there a list for *ABSOLUTE*
beginners withXubuntu?</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr>I actually have an SSD (32GB) in this machine, so the swapping is
really quite quick. Also one 256 MB and one 128 MB stick of memory, not
just 256 MB. I've now discovered a Samsung 256 MB stick which *might* run
on this machine - it appears to need *Samsung* memory in the first socket.
I'll be trying to fit it at some stage when the other jobs give me time.
You will have gathered that I like playing with and rebuilding computers but
getting to the memory in this machine can lead to damaged keys if I'm not
*really* careful - the keyboard has to be prised up with a screwdriver to access
the memory slots. That would give me half a gig if it works!
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<DIV>I did check on which Ubuntu version was appropriate for this calibre of
computer and Xubuntu 10.04 was the recommendation from the Internet.<BR>
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<DIV>On my Windows PCs, Office Libre is significantly different to Open Office
and I prefer it for various reasons which are not terribly relevant here except
that *that* was why I was trying to load it in the first place.</DIV>
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<DIV>At some stage I'll have to load printer drivers for our Epson 1290 printer
and would appreciate advice as to how to do so (and where to get them
from). The driver discs (we have a collection) are only for Windows and
Mac as far as I can see but I imagine someone will have decided they couldn't
live without one of these (*we* can't, this is our 6th or 7th Epson Stylus Photo
1290 - "mission control" likes them and we have flow cell etc, but they're
getting thinner on the ground these days) attached to a Linux machine.</DIV>
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<DIV>Eventually, I'm trying to get to the point where we have my wife's MacBook
running Mac OS and Ubuntu/Linux on all the other laptops. So this machine is a
first part of the learning curve. I have ideas of eventually revamping it
to be a dedicated controller of one of my wife's kilns, which is designed to
allow computer control but that's a long way away yet - I have to learn C
first. So it's currently a genuine spare right now. It'll be fun to
do that.</DIV></DIV>
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<DIV>Regards,</DIV>
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<DIV>David Walland</DIV></DIV>
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<DIV class=gmail_quote>On 8 September 2013 16:24, George DiceGeorge <SPAN
dir=ltr><<A href="mailto:dicegeorge@hotmail.com"
target=_blank>dicegeorge@hotmail.com</A>></SPAN> wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=gmail_quote
style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">with
only 256 mb ram there will be lots of swapping data from RAM to hard disk
which takes ages - I keep an eye on the little green light which shows
processor usage, and only click when the light has stopped flashing - or else
everything freezes up.<BR>[george]<BR><BR><BR>-----Original Message----- From:
Pasi Lallinaho<BR>Sent: Sunday, 08 September, 2013 16:05
<DIV class="im HOEnZb"><BR>To: Xubuntu Support and User Discussions<BR></DIV>
<DIV class="im HOEnZb">Subject: Re: [xubuntu-users] Is there a list for
*ABSOLUTE* beginners with Xubuntu?<BR><BR></DIV>
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<DIV class=h5>On 08/09/13 16:44, Peter Flynn wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=gmail_quote
style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">On
09/08/2013 10:42 AM, David Walland wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=gmail_quote
style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Dear
All,<BR><BR>I've been watching and reading all your input and am beginning
to<BR>suspect that some of you think that there is a problem with
the<BR>Xubuntu on my old laptop. I have to say that I doubt
that. I can<BR>*use* parts of it.<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>It sounds as if
the operating system itself is working fine.<BR><BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=gmail_quote
style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">I
can write letters etc in Open Office, even if I can't work out why<BR>I
can't replace it with Office Libre.<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>What happens if you
use Synaptic to delete OpenOffice entirely,<BR>and then install Libre Office
entirely?<BR><BR>Oh wait...Libre Office probably isn't in the 10.04
repositories. Can you<BR>download it from their web site at <A
href="http://www.libreoffice.org/download"
target=_blank>http://www.libreoffice.org/<U></U>download</A><BR>into /tmp
(at least the main one, which is 154Mb of .tar.gz file).<BR>Unwrap it with
tar zxvf filename.tar.gz and then install it with<BR>gdebi *.deb (if gdebi
isn't installed in 10.04, install that first).<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>LibreOffice
is basically OpenOffice. If you are running an older system<BR>with only
OpenOffice in the repositories, I'd suggest keeping with that<BR>and not
trying to install LibreOffice.<BR><BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=gmail_quote
style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">
<BLOCKQUOTE class=gmail_quote
style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">The
things I can't do are almost certainly there for the doing, if<BR>only I
knew enough to ask the right question or look in the
right<BR>place.<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>I think you're asking the right
questions in the right place, but I<BR>suspect that the machine is having
problems with memory. It simply<BR>doesn't have enough.<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>I
would imagine Xubuntu would be slow with 256MB memory, but then again<BR>you
are running an older version and ultimately, slow is subjective.<BR>It's
possible that certain applications won't be able to run with that<BR>amount of
memory though, so take that into consideration.<BR><BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=gmail_quote
style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">*snip*<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>And
for what comes to the original question in the mail title: this *is*<BR>the
list you are looking for. Welcome!<BR><BR>Yt,<BR>Pasi<BR><BR>-- <BR>Pasi
Lallinaho
(knome)
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