[Lubuntu-desktop] Some suggestions

2010-07-14 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
The following text is in Spanish... Estimados: Primero los quiero felicitar por su excelente trabajo con Lubuntu, todo funciona bastante bien. Les quiero comentar que uso éste sistema operativo en un Compaq 1700 (1000mhz, 256...@100mhz) y me surgen los siguientes problemas: 1. Chromium es

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Some suggestions

2010-07-14 Thread Yorvyk
On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 11:40:19 -0400 Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset jpx...@gmail.com wrote: I want to help with Lubuntu but i have no programming skills... how can i help? If you go to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu there is some information there, such 'Help test Lubutu' and 'Getting involved'.

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Some suggestions

2010-07-14 Thread John Zoidberg
Slightly off-topic:    3. Gnome office is a light office suite but very poor, Open Office is    heavier but is a real working tool. I do 95% of my 'office' work with Abiword, Gnumerics, Osmo and xpad.  Only rarely  do I require OOo, and usually that is to import some Excel spreadsheet.were

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Some suggestions

2010-07-14 Thread Andrew Woodhead
If you tweak openoffice to use less ram, simple On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 9:57 PM, John Zoidberg zohn.joidb...@gmail.comwrote: Slightly off-topic: 3. Gnome office is a light office suite but very poor, Open Office is heavier but is a real working tool. I do 95% of my 'office' work

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Some suggestions

2010-07-14 Thread Yorvyk
On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 14:23:58 -0400 Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset jpx...@gmail.com wrote: I use OOo a lot, since it's the only that can import correctly ms files and here (Chile) everybody use windows and ms office, so for me it's the only way to do what i need. This said, gnome office don't have

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Some suggestions

2010-07-14 Thread Phillip Whiteside
Hi, If you need firefox, Open office etc., then maybe you should have a look at xubuntu? https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu that is the lower resource version of Ubuntu (gnome) that includes the most part of it. Lubuntu is a departure from open office, etc. There is nothing to stop you installing

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Some suggestions

2010-07-14 Thread Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset
Hi: First of all, i'm not complaining, i'm just saying that a program is better than another, but the reasons to use abiword and gnumeric are quite solid so i wont say anything else about that. Second, i've found WICD, an app that could replace network manager in lubuntu 10.10 to be far

Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] Some suggestions

2010-07-14 Thread Phillip Whiteside
Hi, it's usually at this point I get shouted at. WICD is interesting, but we've had far more success with http://forum.phillw.net/viewtopic.php?f=18t=92 You must however understand that such postings cannot be supported by the team. A lot of the things over there are either on the Wiki area, or