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[Zoltan Matlak <matlakzoli@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I have a 10 year old Dell Latitude CPt (celeron 333, 512MB RAM). It's been
sitting in the closet for the past 4-5 years. Couldn't install Lubuntu on
it, neither could I run it from CD. Not sure what is the problem. During
install I saw several messages like:
Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block xxxx,
then just got a blank (black) screen and cd is spinning. Is this problem
caused by a bad CD image?
I had winXP running on it before, then I tried Masonux (ubuntu 9.10 and
LXDE), which installed and run fine. If you can guide me I can do some
debugging what to do to figure out where is the problem, but I'm not an
experienced linux user, so can't do much more right now.


Another install I did on a 5-6 year old desktop (Shuttle SS51, P4 1.8GHz,
512MB ram). No problems at all, it flies (it feels much faster than regular
Ubuntu, but not sure how can it be measured). The only problem I had is that
I only allocated 2.2GB hard disk to the partition I was installing it, and
complained that it needs at least 2.4GB, so 2.6GB did the trick :). After
installation I checked and Lubuntu uses a little more than 1GB of disk
space. Nice.


After playing with this distro for a few hours these are my remarks:
Things I changed: desktop background and the Program/"Start" icon, I just
simply can't get used to lxde logo. To me it seems ugly, sorry :(

Things missing by Firefox from sites I visited: Flash and Java.

Thing I miss from Ubuntu: date/time has location and temperature
notification. Can this be added somehow? What component is that in regular
Ubuntu? That's something I got used to and really miss it.

Lubuntu is a really nice, clean, lean distro. Love it more and more.

Thanks guys.
Zoltan


On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 5:07 PM, Julien Lavergne <gilir@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I just generated the first real ISO for Lubuntu Lucid, available for
> testing. Don't forget that it's build with Ubuntu Lucid (10.04) which is
> still in Alpha state of development, so same warnings :
>
> "Pre-releases of Lucid are *not* encouraged for anyone needing a stable
> system or anyone who is not comfortable running into occasional, even
> frequent breakage.  They are, however, recommended for Ubuntu developers
> and those who want to help in testing, reporting, and fixing bugs."
>
> Features :
> - LXDE packages up-to-date [1]
> - LXDM
> - The new pcmanfm for testing (type "pcmanfm2" in a terminal)
> - Many wallpapers and start icons from lxde forum, gnome-look or Leszek
> Lesner, to be able to switch easily and to test the result
> - First customization with a splash screen from Leszek Lesner
> - Installable with ubiquity (but upgrade from this Alpha 1 to next
> release is not guaranteed)
>
> The ISO is called "Preview", because it's build with new features which
> will be part of the final release, and to encourage early testing. All
> this components are not yet part of the official repositories (work in
> progress).
>
> Also, if you want to propose a new application for the default
> installation, please test its behavior in this live-cd.
>
> If you want to create a bootable usb system, please use the usb creator
> directly on Ubuntu.
>
> Please report any problem you have with it on this list or directly to
> me. Exception for pcmanfm2, it doesn't have all the features pcmanfm
> have, so no need to report it's incomplete :)
>
> Download : http://people.ubuntu.com/~gilir/lubuntu-lucid-alpha1.iso<http://people.ubuntu.com/%7Egilir/lubuntu-lucid-alpha1.iso>
>
> Regards,
> Julien Lavergne
>
> [1] except LXmusic which was released recently and is not part of
> Lubuntu. Some packages are not yet in official repositories, but it's
> just a question of time.
>
>
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