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
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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
Hi All,
IMHO members who wish to engage in advocacy need to go to where the
people are. We, in the UK, are surrounded by a population who are either
ignorant or apathetic to FOSS so, in order to reach out to them, we need
to take a more general approach. I feel that one approach could be by
If youre putting Lubuntu on one of them
then put Lubuntu on all of them
to make it as easy as possible for the users.
[george]
From: Phill Whiteside
Sent: Tuesday, 09 December, 2014 16:34
To: Nio Wiklund
Cc: lubuntu-us...@lists.ubuntu.com ; UK Ubuntu Talk
Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] How old is
On 9 December 2014 at 17:59, George DiceGeorge dicegeo...@hotmail.com wrote:
If youre putting Lubuntu on one of them
then put Lubuntu on all of them
to make it as easy as possible for the users.
Whereas I would endorse that, the snag is that Lubuntu requires a PAE
CPU these days. I've tried
As I've installed lubuntu onto two old tower machines (one a win 98 server)
for our local youth group, if you go the lubuntu route, keep an eye on
cyac.eu as it gets rebuilt over the comings days with basic instructions.
The site is hosted via a multi-site WordPress install, so you're welcome to
[ Lubuntu requires a PAE CPU these days.]
What - so theres now no official version of ubuntu that works with older
machines -
thats daft,
its eco-vandalism to scrap old PCs
[g]
-Original Message-
From: Liam Proven
Sent: Tuesday, 09 December, 2014 17:10
To: UK Ubuntu Talk
Subject:
On 9 December 2014 at 18:16, George DiceGeorge dicegeo...@hotmail.com wrote:
[ Lubuntu requires a PAE CPU these days.]
What - so theres now no official version of ubuntu that works with older
machines -
thats daft,
its eco-vandalism to scrap old PCs
[g]
Please bottom-quote on the list.
Why doesnt the bootup from CD interrogate the PC
and give useful advice about what to install
if the version on the install CD needs a more powerful PC or more RAM etc?
I defected from Xubtuntu to Lubuntu because I thought it would work on
almost all old PCs,
but now I'm told it needs PAE CPU
On 9 December 2014 at 18:22, George DiceGeorge dicegeo...@hotmail.com wrote:
Why doesnt the bootup from CD interrogate the PC
and give useful advice about what to install
if the version on the install CD needs a more powerful PC or more RAM etc?
I defected from Xubtuntu to Lubuntu because I
I have built a non PAE kernel from the 14.04 system, I'm not too sure how
many spins use it, but http://bentovillage.org/bento/ and
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/OBI certainly do.
regards,
Phill.
On 9 December 2014 at 17:33, Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote:
On 9 December 2014 at
On 09/12/14 17:22, George DiceGeorge wrote:
Why doesnt the bootup from CD interrogate the PC
and give useful advice about what to install
if the version on the install CD needs a more powerful PC or more RAM etc?
I defected from Xubtuntu to Lubuntu because I thought it would work on
almost
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