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[Julien Lavergne <gilir@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Thanks for the test.

Le samedi 02 janvier 2010 à 14:32 +0100, Zoltan Matlak a écrit :
> 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? 
Probably yes, I already have those error on a bad CD. But unfortunately,
you can't check the integrity of the CD du to a bug. 

> 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.
Could you try to install a daily iso of Ubuntu Lucid ? It's maybe a
general bug on Ubuntu Lucid (not Lubuntu specific).

> 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.
It's mostly a bug in the generation of the ISO, because I can't estimate
the real size of the system which will be installed. I'll try to reduce
it for the next ISO.

> 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 :(
You can report it to the LXDE project :) It's difficult to judge
artwork, some will like it, others don't :)
Also, you have on the ISO some others logos and backgrounds available
for testing, feel free to report which ones you prefer :)

> Things missing by Firefox from sites I visited: Flash and Java.
There is a missing package for Flash (mozilla-plugin-gnash), I'll fix it
for the next ISO.
For Java, I don't think it shipped by default on Ubuntu. The official
plugin (sun-java6-plugin) is not free, and the free one
(icedtea6-plugin) not good as the official one.

> 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.
If you go to Preferences => Date and Time , you can choose the location
of the clock. 
For temperature, you mean outside temperature or computer temperature ?
The first one is not available on the lxpanel, but the second one is
available as a plugin.

Regards,
Julien Lavergne