Re: [Lubuntu-wiki-docs] [Test Report 1] Minimum RAM required to install Saucy (Lubuntu 13.10) from Desktop ISO

2013-06-17 Thread Yorvyk
On 17/06/13 01:06, Phill Whiteside wrote: @ Jluien, if Z-Ram works so well, could we drop alternate for some of the archs? NO! NO! NO! and again NO! The alternate installer is needed for those machines with unsupported video. You can install with the Alternate and then force the VESA

Re: Minimum RAM required to install Saucy (Lubuntu 13.10) from Desktop ISO

2013-06-17 Thread Yorvyk
On 17/06/13 02:13, Nio Wiklund wrote: Hi, With all respect to your skill as a tester, Ali, I have to ask: 1. Has the GUI installer of Saucy improved a lot compared to Raring? Doesn't look like it. I had my trained monkey run the following test:- Compaq Deskpro as previous with 512 MiB RAM.

zRAM Live CD

2013-06-17 Thread Yorvyk
Having carried out a few tests I think we can say zRAM does appear to make a positive make a difference to the ability to use the Live CD, although further testing may be required. What concerns me is that it remains enabled on the installed system. I thought we were just going to use it on

Minimum hardware requirements for Adobe Flash

2013-06-17 Thread Yorvyk
According to those nice people at Adobe the minimum requirements for running Flash with Linux are:- 2.33GHz or faster x86-compatible processor, or Intel Atom 1.6GHz or faster processor for netbooks Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® (RHEL) 5.6 or later (32 bit and 64 bit), openSUSE® 11.3 or later

Re: Minimum hardware requirements for Adobe Flash

2013-06-17 Thread Yorvyk
On 17/06/13 15:42, Leszek Lesner wrote: Am 17.06.2013 16:37, schrieb John Hupp: On 6/17/2013 9:30 AM, Yorvyk wrote: According to those nice people at Adobe the minimum requirements for running Flash with Linux are:- 2.33GHz or faster x86-compatible processor, or Intel Atom 1.6GHz or faster

Re: Minimum hardware requirements for Adobe Flash

2013-06-17 Thread Yorvyk
On 17/06/13 15:37, John Hupp wrote: On 6/17/2013 9:30 AM, Yorvyk wrote: According to those nice people at Adobe the minimum requirements for running Flash with Linux are:- 2.33GHz or faster x86-compatible processor, or Intel Atom 1.6GHz or faster processor for netbooks Red Hat® Enterprise

Re: Lubuntu 12.10 on AMD Athlon 1800+ XP and 1GB RAM: installation crashes

2013-06-17 Thread Yorvyk
On 17/06/13 18:22, Iberê Fernandes wrote: Next weekend I'll try Lubuntu 10.04 on that desktop. When you do, can you run 'lspci' in a terminal and post the results. It should look something like:- ~$ lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82875P/E7210 Memory Controller Hub (rev 02)

New feature or a bug?

2013-06-17 Thread Yorvyk
On 17/06/13 23:45, Ali Linx (amjjawad) wrote: Hi, http://i43.tinypic.com/2wezygm.jpg I have noticed that during the installation when you choose Something Else and want to set the mount points, file type, etc. And it appears to follow me even after the installation is done as you can see on

zRAM and Live CD

2013-06-16 Thread Yorvyk
As I'd just downloaded the latest daily so I could have a clean install for writing the Lubuntu Manual, I thought I'd have a go installing on a really on a low RAM machine to see if it made any difference. It appears to. Compaq Deskpro EP K450 from last century. Intel 440BX chip set 450 MHz

Re: RAM Usage During Installation of Lubuntu

2013-06-16 Thread Yorvyk
On 16/06/13 19:22, Nio Wiklund wrote: On 2013-06-16 20:00, Aere Greenway wrote: On 06/10/2013 02:25 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote: I think the difference is *already installed swap* and it is probably not told to the newbies clearly enough, how important it is when the RAM is low. If you start with

Re: RAM Usage During Installation of Lubuntu

2013-06-16 Thread Yorvyk
On 16/06/13 21:27, Nio Wiklund wrote: See inline and end On 2013-06-16 21:36, Jonathan Marsden wrote: On 06/16/2013 11:22 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote: I think your analysis is correct, so if you have low RAM 1. Make sure there is swap and that it is active before starting the installer 2. Do not

Re: zRAM and Live CD

2013-06-16 Thread Yorvyk
On 16/06/13 22:02, Yorvyk wrote: On 16/06/13 20:09, Yorvyk wrote: Compaq Deskpro EP K450 from last century. Intel 440BX chip set 450 MHz Pentium III 256 MiB PC100 RAM 6.4 GB HDD (from Oct 1998) MGA G200 AGP graphics Using the pre-partitioning method with the above hardware and 13.04

Re: Nova-tuner a system optimization tool

2013-06-15 Thread Yorvyk
On 15/06/13 01:23, Alexis Lopez Zubieta wrote: Hello: I would like to introduce an application that I have been developing for the Nova Light Linux distribution (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova_%28operating_system%29). It is a sort of system tuner that offers a simple interface to

Re: [Lubuntu-wiki-docs] Lubuntu Manual

2013-06-13 Thread Yorvyk
On 09/06/13 15:31, John Kim wrote: Hello, Is it possible to have more than one role? My first choice right now is programmer. :) John Kim Yes, provided you have the time I don't see why not. There's a spreadsheet at [1] for the non-technical roles if you'd like to put your name forward for

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] The Only Official Channels of Lubuntu

2013-06-07 Thread Yorvyk
On 07/06/13 12:21, Ali Linx (amjjawad) wrote: On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 2:29 PM, Yorvyk yorvik.ubu...@googlemail.com mailto:yorvik.ubu...@googlemail.com wrote: On 07/06/13 11:01, Ali Linx (amjjawad) wrote: Dear all, First of all, please reply ONLY with '+1' this Email to make sure

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] The Only Official Channels of Lubuntu

2013-06-07 Thread Yorvyk
On 07/06/13 11:01, Ali Linx (amjjawad) wrote: Dear all, First of all, please reply ONLY with '+1' this Email to make sure you have read it :) *Please, do not start any discussion and if you have something to say, reply 'me' only - don't hit reply to all, please!* Why do you need to know if

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] [LTS] I'm very confused

2013-06-06 Thread Yorvyk
On 06/06/13 12:34, Nio Wiklund wrote: On 2013-06-06 12:37, Yorvyk wrote: On 06/06/13 04:54, nio wiklund wrote: What is your advice in the particular case of Lubuntu 12.04? What should I recommend after October 2013? For starters there isn't a particular case. Why is the user using 12.04

Re: Internet Speed

2013-06-04 Thread Yorvyk
On 04/06/13 11:09, Ali Linx (amjjawad) wrote: On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 1:33 PM, Yorvyk yorvik.ubu...@googlemail.com wrote: On 04/06/13 05:49, Ali Linx (amjjawad) wrote: Hello Jackson, Are we talking about the Network Manager version? Or type of Wifi? As in G or N? Or release? What do you mean

Re: Firefox Like Chromium

2013-06-04 Thread Yorvyk
On 04/06/13 20:05, Andrew Diamond wrote: Chromium has the added benefit of either eliminating the title bar, or turning it into an actual component of the browser (I think it just turns it off). Most of my computing nowadays is actually on a netbook, where screen realestate comes at a premium.

Re: Chromium vs Firefox : Need testimonies

2013-06-03 Thread Yorvyk
On 02/06/13 00:16, Jonathan Marsden wrote: On 06/01/2013 03:30 PM, Yorvyk wrote: I've not found any down sides to zRAM with more than 512 MiB of RAM. Below that, especially with CPUs below 1GHz, there are frequent pauses as memory gets swapped about when the zRAM allocation has been used up

Re: Chromium vs Firefox : Need testimonies

2013-06-02 Thread Yorvyk
On 02/06/13 09:18, PCMan wrote: Well, I think the way ArchLinux does it is what we can learn something from. Having the kernel module installed won't get it activated automatically. zRAM can be used only when you create a virtual block device for it. Developers from the Arch community

Re: Chromium vs Firefox : Need testimonies

2013-06-02 Thread Yorvyk
On 01/06/13 23:39, Phill Whiteside wrote: I'm still somewhat confused as to why more tests are needed? The set I carried out for Chad Miller were a full set of tests. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/1096603 If he asks for further tests under what ever system he

Lubuntu Manual

2013-06-02 Thread Yorvyk
Anybody interested in contributinhg to this, there is a meeting in #ubuntu-manual on June 8th at 18:00 UTC where a Lubuntu version is going to be discussed. Depending on the outcome of that I'll arrange another meeting for us Lubuntians to discuss what next. -- Steve -- Lubuntu-users

Re: lubuntu 13.04: mouse middle button missing features

2013-06-02 Thread Yorvyk
On 02/06/13 19:26, Iberê Fernandes wrote: Steve, tks for prompting that bug! It might be useful for my Core2Duo T7300 that runs Lubuntu 12.04 on dual boot. However, the more I learn Lubuntu, the least I use Windows 7 on that laptop. In fact, Lubuntu 12.04 has been my first OS since I had

Re: Chromium vs Firefox : Need testimonies

2013-06-01 Thread Yorvyk
A look at the specs for Chromebooks gives some idea of the power and RAM Google deems necessary to run Chrome in a useful fashion. -- Steve -- Lubuntu-users mailing list Lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users

Re: Chromium vs Firefox : Need testimonies

2013-06-01 Thread Yorvyk
On 31/05/13 22:55, Yorvyk wrote: On 31/05/13 21:56, Yorvyk wrote: On 31/05/13 20:25, Nio Wiklund wrote: On 2013-05-31 19:53, Julien Lavergne wrote: So, if you have feedback on using both browsers, please bring it to us :-) But please, keep the discussion on this topic (feedback on low spec

Re: Chromium vs Firefox : Need testimonies

2013-06-01 Thread Yorvyk
On 01/06/13 23:06, Andre Rodovalho wrote: Another test: Facebook only: Firefox: 134.30 MB Chromium: 127784k Facebook + Gmail: Firefox: 278.01 MB Chromium: 139352k My Firefox has some extentions (xMarks, Flash Video Downloader, Ubuntu Mod. and Global Menu...) Chromium has no extentions!

Re: Chromium vs Firefox : Need testimonies

2013-06-01 Thread Yorvyk
On 01/06/13 22:46, Leszek Lesner wrote: Am 01.06.2013 23:21, schrieb PCMan: On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 1:53 AM, Julien Lavergnegi...@ubuntu.com wrote: Hi, In order to have more feedbacks before deciding to switch to Firefox, or to keep Chromium by default, I would like to ask you some

Re: Chromium vs Firefox : Need testimonies

2013-05-31 Thread Yorvyk
On 31/05/13 20:25, Nio Wiklund wrote: On 2013-05-31 19:53, Julien Lavergne wrote: So, if you have feedback on using both browsers, please bring it to us :-) But please, keep the discussion on this topic (feedback on low spec hardware). I prefer Firefox in general (maybe because I am more used

Re: Chromium vs Firefox : Need testimonies

2013-05-31 Thread Yorvyk
On 31/05/13 21:56, Yorvyk wrote: On 31/05/13 20:25, Nio Wiklund wrote: On 2013-05-31 19:53, Julien Lavergne wrote: So, if you have feedback on using both browsers, please bring it to us :-) But please, keep the discussion on this topic (feedback on low spec hardware). I prefer Firefox

Re: Lubuntu DVD

2013-05-25 Thread Yorvyk
On 25/05/13 13:52, Phill Whiteside wrote: Hi Raymund, short answer? No. The image is kept CD sized so that older machines without a dvd reader / cannot boot from usb can use it. Once you have lubuntu installed, you can install anything you want :) For those machines that can, there are various

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] an iso for 'all' intel/amd computers

2013-05-25 Thread Yorvyk
On 25/05/13 18:49, Jörn Schönyan wrote: Am 25.05.2013 19:11, schrieb Yorvyk: On 25/05/13 16:59, Nio Wiklund wrote: Hi everybody, I suggest that we try to make a Lubuntu iso file, that can boot in 'all' computers with intel/amd CPUs. Why? I fail to see any benefit from this. This idea

Re: an iso for 'all' intel/amd computers

2013-05-25 Thread Yorvyk
On 25/05/13 20:07, Nio Wiklund wrote: On 2013-05-25 19:11, Yorvyk wrote: On 25/05/13 16:59, Nio Wiklund wrote: Hi everybody, I suggest that we try to make a Lubuntu iso file, that can boot in 'all' computers with intel/amd CPUs. Why? I fail to see any benefit from this. I think it is good

Re: Missing packages for easytag and handbrake

2013-05-24 Thread Yorvyk
On 23/05/13 16:16, John S. Dey wrote: Just one more note. The easytags installs on ubuntu 13.04. John On May 23, 2013, at 6:50 AM, Yorvyk wrote: On 22/05/13 20:35, John S. Dey wrote: I could not install handbrake or easytag because of missing packages. How can I get the missing packages

Re: LX Games and Lubuntu Nexus 7 Session

2013-05-23 Thread Yorvyk
On 22/05/13 21:15, David Gumberg wrote: Where is this LX games you speak of? I'd love to install it one of my gaming machines sitting around collecting dust! Click on he button that says Lubuntu on the login screen. -- Steve -- Lubuntu-users mailing list Lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com

LX Games and Lubuntu Nexus 7 Session

2013-05-21 Thread Yorvyk
From a question during Phill's session in the classroom. Lubuntu Nexus 7 Session is obvious but what is the LX Games session for? -- Steve -- Lubuntu-users mailing list Lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users

Re: Games

2013-05-21 Thread Yorvyk
On 21/05/13 15:56, Phill Whiteside wrote: Hi Steve, Julien said at vUDS that upstream support of ace of penguins is now limited and that we do not have the resources to maintain the package. What support is needed? -- Steve -- Lubuntu-users mailing list Lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: offline help / documents

2013-05-15 Thread Yorvyk
On 15/05/13 01:06, Phill Whiteside wrote: Hi, it was a good meeting, the major work items are at https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-s-lubuntu-work-items the task for me is the offline docs. I request that people interested in this area make them selves known on the new

Re: offline help / documents

2013-05-15 Thread Yorvyk
On 15/05/13 13:11, Phill Whiteside wrote: Hi Steve, it can be viewed via http://summit.ubuntu.com/uds-1305/meeting/21754/community-s-lubuntu-work-items/ Thanks Phill, never thought of looking there. I'll have a view tonight as I have to catch up after yesterday's disaster. -- Steve --

Re: Lubuntu Manual - Getting Started With Lubuntu

2013-05-14 Thread Yorvyk
On 14/05/13 10:13, Lars Noodén wrote: On 5/14/13 11:37 AM, Yorvyk wrote: This thread started about http://ubuntu-manual.org and has ended up about wikis, ubuntu docs and video problems. All I wanted to do was see if there was any interest in a 'Lubuntu Manual' as an alternative source

Re: Lubuntu Manual - Getting Started With Lubuntu

2013-05-14 Thread Yorvyk
On 14/05/13 10:19, Julien Lavergne wrote: 2013/5/14 Jonathan Marsden jmars...@fastmail.fm: Recently, I have seen multiple proposals for: * using the existing work on the wiki but dumping it to CD * writing topic-based help documentation in Mallard * using http://ubuntu-manual.org as a

Re: Lubuntu Manual - Getting Started With Lubuntu

2013-05-13 Thread Yorvyk
On 12/05/13 18:59, Paul Sutton wrote: On 12/05/13 18:53, Yorvyk wrote: Anybody up for creating a Lubuntu version of http://ubuntu-manual.org/ ? The team that produce this have made a rather nice job of it and produced some useful tools to assist the process. As it's licensed under Creative

Re: Drag-n-drop not working for me with PCManFM (13.04 fully updated)

2013-05-12 Thread Yorvyk
On 12/05/13 09:15, Ali Linx (amjjawad) wrote: Hi, I do feel really bad for not taking this email too seriously and didn't investigate and check myself. I'm too late to reply this now :( Could you please confirm if this is the same issue as here: http://youtu.be/ix6P6ZwQR-k I have sent an

Re: Lubuntu Manual - Getting Started With Lubuntu

2013-05-12 Thread Yorvyk
On 12/05/13 18:53, Yorvyk wrote: Anybody up for creating a Lubuntu version of http://ubuntu-manual.org/ ? The team that produce this have made a rather nice job of it and produced some useful tools to assist the process. As it's licensed under Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike we can use

Re: Lubuntu-13.04-fake-PAE

2013-05-11 Thread Yorvyk
On 11/05/13 04:56, Nio Wiklund wrote: Hi Iberê, Your Celeron M 1.2 GHz is maybe a couple of years older than my Pentium M with 1.7 GHz. It would be very valuable for the project to know, if your CPU has the PAE capability, and I think the best way to find out is to try. We can only guess from

Re: Qs and feedback

2013-05-11 Thread Yorvyk
On 11/05/13 22:13, Ali Linx (amjjawad) wrote: 5- https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/832939/volumecontrol.ogv Try to go to Volume Control Settings on the systray: Right Click on the Volume Control Volume Control Settings Ops! Is this a bug? please advise! That's one area that really

Re: [Pentium M] Poll

2013-05-09 Thread Yorvyk
On 09/05/13 11:52, Ali Linx (amjjawad) wrote: Dear all, We are running a survey/poll to find out: We? *How Many Users are having Pentium M CPU?* Why? - If you are in Linux, please run this command in your Terminal to find out whether you do have a Pentium M CPU or not: cat

Re: [Pentium M] Poll

2013-05-09 Thread Yorvyk
On 09/05/13 15:57, Ali Linx (amjjawad) wrote: I fail to repeat myself over and over again and keep saying that Lubuntu Team does *NOT* have any kind of database of any sort of data. We do NOT even have estimate data/figures. Who said we need 100% accurate data? apparently, no one knows how to

Re: dhclient

2013-05-09 Thread Yorvyk
On 09/05/13 21:47, Paul Sutton wrote: Hi does dhcliebnt still work on Lubuntu, i seem to get the following when running it psutton@e-machines:~$ sudo dhclient [sudo] password for psutton: RTNETLINK answers: File exists psutton@e-machines:~$ at one time it used to poll the router for each

Re: No wired internet

2013-05-08 Thread Yorvyk
On 08/05/13 18:47, John S. Dey wrote: Hi Steve, Thanks for all you help. I have managed to solve my problem: The firmware for the eth0 and wlan0 was missing (Apparently the firmware is no longer loaded.) so I had no internet and was unable to load the firmware. I scrounged around my office

Re: Non-Official apps for Lubuntu

2013-05-07 Thread Yorvyk
On 07/05/13 21:20, Ali Linx (amjjawad) wrote: Dear all, Julien has sent two email in March this year about these apps [1]. I'd like to remind you about these and kindly ask you to have a look at this link: My views. compton Not interested in drop shadows etc. lubuntu-tweaks Don't

Re: Time Management Software for an Internet Cafe

2013-05-06 Thread Yorvyk
On 06/05/13 12:41, Lars Noodén wrote: On 5/6/13 2:37 PM, Ali Linx (amjjawad) wrote: He needs a Time Management Software for his internet cafe. He is going to install Linux (most likely Lubuntu) in order to spread the word and share his love to Linux with others. Will he run thin client or fat

Re: No wired internet

2013-05-06 Thread Yorvyk
On 06/05/13 19:00, John S. Dey wrote: I just installed lubuntu3.03 x86_64 on a Dell Inspriron 1750. Installed smoothly but I have no wired or wireless connection. I'm trying to get wired working. Can anyone give me some pointers on how to configure? Thank you. Here is some debugging: This

Re: Slowness/Lag Problem - Facebook and Lubuntu 12.10

2013-05-06 Thread Yorvyk
On 06/05/13 21:22, Ali Linx (amjjawad) wrote: Hi, Long story short, it has nothing to do with what browser you will use nor what system will you use, the result will be the same. Prove it? there you go: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=635121 Thanks! I had that page open in a tab

Re: No wired internet

2013-05-06 Thread Yorvyk
) Inspiron 1750 does not have a physical network switch, (4) I disabled ipv6 and reboot. No changes. John On May 6, 2013, at 3:04 PM, Yorvyk wrote: On 06/05/13 19:00, John S. Dey wrote: I just installed lubuntu3.03 x86_64 on a Dell Inspriron 1750. Installed smoothly but I have no wired or wireless

Re: No wired internet

2013-05-06 Thread Yorvyk
On 06/05/13 23:24, Yorvyk wrote: On 06/05/13 20:34, John S. Dey wrote: Hi Steve, Thanks for your response. I suspect that I do not have the correct driver for eth0. Re your suggestions: (1) I had plugged the ethernet cable into another host to verify that a connection was established, (2) I

Re: Problems Updating Lubuntu 12.04, 12.10, and 13.04 on Slow Machines

2013-05-05 Thread Yorvyk
On 05/05/13 00:12, Aere Greenway wrote: On 04/23/2013 06:10 AM, Yorvyk wrote: On 13/04/13 18:28, Aere Greenway wrote: All: I have been observing a problem where on slow (450 megahertz) machines, the software updater window disappears, and the updates are applied in the background

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] make new Lubuntu versions cooperate with Pentium M

2013-04-29 Thread Yorvyk
On 29/04/13 09:46, Ali Linx (amjjawad) wrote: On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 10:18 AM, Nio Wiklund nio.wikl...@gmail.com mailto:nio.wikl...@gmail.com wrote: Hello amjjawad and everybody else reading this mail, Hello Nio :) I think everybody can decide to run a linux version, that is not

Re: Roadmap for Lubuntu

2013-04-28 Thread Yorvyk
On 26/04/13 00:52, Julien Lavergne wrote: Hi, Another item I would like to add, but I'm not sure we will be able to make it, it's an off-line documentation, or a nice manual. Maybe we should look at a Lubuntu variation of http://ubuntu-manual.org, at least for 14.04. -- Steve --

Re: Problems Updating Lubuntu 12.04, 12.10, and 13.04 on Slow Machines

2013-04-23 Thread Yorvyk
On 13/04/13 18:28, Aere Greenway wrote: All: I have been observing a problem where on slow (450 megahertz) machines, the software updater window disappears, and the updates are applied in the background, with no notification of completion. Summary: On slow machines, the method of applying

Re: Problems Updating Lubuntu 12.04, 12.10, and 13.04 on Slow Machines

2013-04-13 Thread Yorvyk
On 13/04/13 18:28, Aere Greenway wrote: All: I have been observing a problem where on slow (450 megahertz) machines, the software updater window disappears, and the updates are applied in the background, with no notification of completion. I tried applying updates using terminal commands:

Re: Problems Updating Lubuntu 12.04, 12.10, and 13.04 on Slow Machines

2013-04-13 Thread Yorvyk
On 13/04/13 20:08, Yorvyk wrote: On 13/04/13 19:47, Mr Wislr wrote: zram can be very helpful in very low ram situations as well I have found zram to be quite useful in machines with 128MiB to 1.5GiB of RAM. Below 128MiB it seems to slow things down too much and above 1.5GiB it doesn't seem

Re: Live Example - apt-get upgrade VS apt-get dist-upgrade

2013-04-13 Thread Yorvyk
On 13/04/13 22:09, Jonathan Marsden wrote: Ali, On 04/13/2013 01:52 PM, Ali Linx (amjjawad) wrote: apt-get dist-upgrade can upgrade your Kernel. apt-get upgrade can not. That is all :) Please do man apt-get to understand the difference between apt-get upgrade and apt-get dist-upgrade.