How old is your computer - the sequel.

Hi All, Thank you for all of your replies. I am very impressed by all of the wonderful veteran machines that are still being used, and I thought that I was doing well with a 9 year old machine! You may recall from my original post that the question was prompted by a conversation at a local

Re: How old is your computer - the sequel.

Not recommended... I recomend you to use two different root partitions, one to each installation. The full installation is garanteed, you don't want to get unusual problems with those just introduced users... You can separate about 12gb for each and create a dualboot. You can use the very same

Re: How old is your computer - the sequel.

Hi Barry, While I have had some problems trying to run Ubuntu even with LXDE on some laptops over the past year or two, I have had a lot od success recently with Lubuntu14.10, LXLE14.10 (for 64-bit) or LXLE14.04.1 for 32-bit, or, when all else fails, CrunchBang. HTH (and remember,

Re: How old is your computer - the sequel.

Den 2014-12-09 14:57, Barry Titterton skrev: Hi All, Thank you for all of your replies. I am very impressed by all of the wonderful veteran machines that are still being used, and I thought that I was doing well with a 9 year old machine! You may recall from my original post that the

Re: How old is your computer - the sequel.

You may also want to look at ToriOS[1] which is a respin of ubuntu. Regards, Phill. 1. http://torios.org/ On 9 December 2014 at 16:27, Nio Wiklund nio.wikl...@gmail.com wrote: Den 2014-12-09 14:57, Barry Titterton skrev: Hi All, Thank you for all of your replies. I am very impressed by

Re: How old is your computer - the sequel.

+1 :) On 12/09/2014 10:34 AM, Phill Whiteside wrote: You may also want to look at ToriOS[1] which is a respin of ubuntu. Regards, Phill. 1. http://torios.org/ On 9 December 2014 at 16:27, Nio Wiklund nio.wikl...@gmail.com mailto:nio.wikl...@gmail.com wrote: Den 2014-12-09 14:57,

Re: How old is your computer - the sequel.

Den 2014-12-09 17:34, Phill Whiteside skrev: You may also want to look at ToriOS[1] which is a respin of ubuntu. Regards, Phill. 1. http://torios.org/ +1 :-) -- Lubuntu-users mailing list Lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at:

Using Shockwave with Lubuntu

Good afternoon, Many of our teachers use websites that require either Flash or Shockwave to interact with the site. For example: http://www.explorelearning.com/ is a site that requires Shockwave. I did some research and found that I can install Pipelight on Lubuntu which would allow me to add

Bug report filed--Cannot open my session graphically in Lu 14.04 PPC

Fellow Lu users: In the interest of trying to help get Lu 14.04 to be a better place for PPC users . . . I have filed a bug report about the problem I posted here about losing login to GUI after a normal update/upgrade procedure. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lightdm/+bug/1400967

Bug 1242452 - XFCE4 Power Manager is not running, do you want to launch it now

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lubuntu-default-settings/+bug/1242452 This bug was posted when the /etc/xdg/autostart bug was causing everything in that folder to fail to autostart. The autostart bug has been fixed and the other shortcuts in the folder all autostart now as far as I

hardware - audio aux in vs mic

Can the mic port be safely used for audio in or must I stay with the machine with aux in? I will probably be digitizing some analog audio cassette tapes early next year. I have an old ghettoblaster with a 3.5mm jack that can play the tapes and a choice of two computers. One has what appears to

Re: hardware - audio aux in vs mic

On 12/09/2014 11:42 PM, Lars Noodén wrote: Can the mic port be safely used for audio in or must I stay with the machine with aux in? I will probably be digitizing some analog audio cassette tapes early next year. I have an old ghettoblaster with a 3.5mm jack that can play the tapes and a