Deleting old/unused files

2014-12-03 Thread Steven Duckworth
Hi, I am currently using a Fujitsu Siemens Intel Celeron M laptop with 40GB onboard memory (my PC motherboard recently burnt out), and was wondering as to the safest way to delete old or unwanted files in Synaptic Package Manager. My hard-drive space is very limited so to be able to keep it

Re: Deleting old/unused files

2014-12-03 Thread Leszek Lesner
Am Mittwoch, 3. Dezember 2014, 12:49:07 schrieb Steven Duckworth: Hi, I am currently using a Fujitsu Siemens Intel Celeron M laptop with 40GB onboard memory (my PC motherboard recently burnt out), and was wondering as to the safest way to delete old or unwanted files in Synaptic Package

Re: Deleting old/unused files

2014-12-03 Thread Rafael Laguna
Or you could use the BleachBit tool (available in the repos) for an extensive cleaning. Nice sticker / button, btw ;) On Wed Dec 03 2014 at 11:51:34 Leszek Lesner leszek.les...@web.de wrote: Am Mittwoch, 3. Dezember 2014, 12:49:07 schrieb Steven Duckworth: Hi, I am currently using a

Re: Lubuntu-users Digest, Vol 36, Issue 4

2014-12-03 Thread Steven Duckworth
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running speedtest-cli automatically?

2014-12-03 Thread Mark MacKenzie
Good morning. I live in an area (northern New Mexico) where the internet service is decent during the day but falls off miserably during the evening when of course everyone around me is using it. However, the local provider (Windstream) insists on testing the download speeds only during the

Re: Lubuntu-users Digest, Vol 36, Issue 4 - cleaning unused files

2014-12-03 Thread Jerry
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stop dbus, new user account

2014-12-03 Thread Fritz Hudnut
On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 3:46 AM, lubuntu-users-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com wrote: Hi Fritz, It might be worth trying to add a new user. Check if the new user has the same issues. If the new user does not have any issue, you can of course simply migrate your configurations to that account. And

Re: Lubuntu-users Digest, Vol 36, Issue 4

2014-12-03 Thread Florian Coste
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Re: Lubuntu : One month later

2014-12-03 Thread Florian Coste
Hi, I have also answered in your reply ! 2014-12-01 23:34 GMT+00:00 Israel israeld...@gmail.com: Hi again, (inline replies) On 12/01/2014 04:10 PM, Florian Coste wrote: Thank you for the Microsoft fonts. I have install lubuntu-restricted-extras but after trying to print again this pdf,

Re: Deleting old/unused files

2014-12-03 Thread Aere Greenway
Steven: If you've been using your system for months/years, and updating during that time, you accumulate a lot of old kernels that are no longer needed and take up significant space. Try (in Synaptic Package Manager) searching for linux-image, and within those displayed that are indicated

Re: Lubuntu : One month later

2014-12-03 Thread SilverLion
Hey Florian, you are talking to the PR guy now.. What's the issue with the website? Regards, Silver Am 03.12.2014 19:08 schrieb Florian Coste: Hi, I have also answered in your reply ! 2014-12-01 23:34 GMT+00:00 Israel israeld...@gmail.com: Hi again, (inline replies) On

Re: Lubuntu : One month later

2014-12-03 Thread Florian Coste
Hi SilverLion, In fact, it's just a suggestion. I know that many people recommend the LTS version for beginners. In the french unbutu website, after some discuss, we had put foward the LTS version Ubuntu 14.04 for beginners. (If you're not a beginner, I presume that you know which version is

Re: Lubuntu : One month later

2014-12-03 Thread Aere Greenway
On 12/03/2014 01:30 PM, Florian Coste wrote: In fact, it's just a suggestion. I know that many people recommend the LTS version for beginners. In the french unbutu website, after some discuss, we had put foward the LTS version Ubuntu 14.04 for beginners. (If you're not a beginner, I presume

Re: stop dbus, new user account

2014-12-03 Thread Israel
On 12/03/2014 11:16 AM, Fritz Hudnut wrote: On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 3:46 AM, lubuntu-users-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com mailto:lubuntu-users-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com wrote: Hi Fritz, It might be worth trying to add a new user. Check if the new user has the same issues. If the

Re: Lubuntu-users Digest, Vol 36, Issue 4

2014-12-03 Thread Israel
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LTS to LTS upgrade . . . .

2014-12-03 Thread Fritz Hudnut
On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 1:52 PM, lubuntu-users-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com wrote: I can't yet answer that from my own experience. I know the upgrade process from one release to the next release has been very reliable, but I haven't yet tried upgrading from one LTS release to the next LTS

Re: Lubuntu : One month later

2014-12-03 Thread Israel
On 12/03/2014 03:41 PM, Aere Greenway wrote: On 12/03/2014 01:30 PM, Florian Coste wrote: In fact, it's just a suggestion. I know that many people recommend the LTS version for beginners. In the french unbutu website, after some discuss, we had put foward the LTS version Ubuntu 14.04 for

Re: running speedtest-cli automatically?

2014-12-03 Thread Israel
On 12/03/2014 08:04 AM, Mark MacKenzie wrote: Good morning. I live in an area (northern New Mexico) where the internet service is decent during the day but falls off miserably during the evening when of course everyone around me is using it. However, the local provider (Windstream) insists

Re: Lubuntu : One month later

2014-12-03 Thread Basil Fernie
Good question about upgrade process! After years on Lubuntu 12.04 as updated from time to time, I was more than hankering for a decent kernel upgrade and leapt at 14-04 LTS as soon as it was released. There were several major inconveniences which I had to learn workarounds for which were

Re: Lubuntu : One month later

2014-12-03 Thread Aere Greenway
On 12/03/2014 03:21 PM, Israel wrote: I always keep the family computer on LTS. And from 12.04 to 14.04 was easy. But of course it is intel everything, so it is very good hardware for Linux:) But I do not know how I upgraded... I usually use an ISO. It would be worth testing this further!