lubuntu 12.10

Ubuntu/Lubuntu 12.10 or Linux Mint 14 XFCE for an older computer?

location: linuxquestions.com - date: January 1, 1970
This is kind of a fun question for you guys, I have a old/decent computer I found, it's an HP Workstation xw4200 or something. It has a Pentium 4 3.5ghz, 4GB of memory ( upgraded) and the hard drives surprisingly use SATA, I also put in a Geforce GT 220. This computer is for my mom who isn't too great with computers so remember that I would like a distro that is simple to use. It has win7 right now and it's pretty damn fast so I need a Linux distro that's probably faster than how it's operating now to convince my mother (as she'a always used Windows). Ubuntu is probably the most user friendly distro out there as well that it is fast and stable so I would like to put Ubuntu on it, however since the PC is a bit old I would like to squeeze in as much performance as I can and I was thinking of Linux Mint 14 with XFCE. Which do you think is better? OH ALSO, or would Lubuntu also be a good or better choice?

Lubuntu 12.10 with a nonPAE cpu

location: ubuntuforums.com - date: October 19, 2012
With the release of Quantal Quetzal, I decided to run the distribution upgrade on my Dell Latitude D600. I hadn't read up on the kernel changes and didn't realize that this meant 12.10 wasn't suitable for this laptop. The upgrade kind of worked, but gave me some errors. After some troubleshooting, I was able to get things sorted out and thought I would provide some guidance for anyone looking to do the same. This guide is assuming you're still on Lubuntu 12.04. Step 1 - Update your packages Install all of the updates for 12.04 using Update Manager (or another method, if you prefer) Step 2 - Pin your kernel Since 12.10 only includes the pae kernel, we'll need to stick with the kernel from 12.04. To do this, you'll need to make use of apt pinning. This will allow you to specify some packages and hold them to a specific version number. In this case, kernel packages. Create the file /etc/apt/preferences. Hit alt-F2 and then enter Code: gksu leafpad /etc/apt/preferences This file

How do you disable error reporting in Lubuntu 12.10?

location: ubuntuforums.com - date: March 2, 2013
Like the title says..I am trying to disable any of the dialogs that ask me if I want to report an error. I am not sure how to do this in Lubuntu. Thanks for any help.

lubuntu 12.10 disk utility problem

location: linuxquestions.com - date: October 31, 2013
Hello reader, I have installed lubuntu 12.10 and have an issue with the gnome disk utility, which seems to have had much of its features removed. After looking around in some forums I learned that to get the old disk utility back one must build it from source. So I downloaded the source file for the latest 12.10 version before the change was made to the app. So I follow the directions in the install file. However, I can't get past the first step, which is configuring the build. After entering ./Configure into the terminal I get this output. I think the very last line identifies the problem, but installing gnome-doc-utils yields no change. [email protected]:/home/nonentity/Downloads/gnome-disk-utility-3.0.2# ./configure checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c checking whether build environment is sane... yes checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p checking for gawk... no checking for mawk... mawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)...

Broken packages after upgrading to Lubuntu 12.10

location: ubuntuforums.com - date: February 6, 2013
After upgrading form Lubuntu 12.04 to 12.10 I got the message that I have 2 broken packages: linux-image-extra-3.5.0-23-generic linux-image-generic How do I fix this? I'm not that familiar with ubuntu yet I'm on a old IBM Thinkpad R50e Intel Celeron M 1.4GHz 768MB RAM Dualboot with Windows 7

Installation of Lubuntu 12.10 deleted Windows XP without warning!

location: ubuntuforums.com - date: November 20, 2012
Today I installed Lubuntu 12.10 to my girlfriends old laptop (which had Windows XP) to use it for web browsing and some pdf viewing and so. My plan was to have both OS's alongside each other, and I had read through documentation which clearly showed that there should be such option, as in this page: http://launchintolinux.wordpress.com...-dual-booting/ I started install, and there was NO option "Install Lubuntu alongside Windos XP". First option was to overwrite Windows completely, and had appropriate warnings about losing all data. Second option gave some information about new partitions or so, and third was manual partition. So, I thought maybe the second option is good because it does its thing automatically, and there was no warning that it will erase everything. Installation started, there was never any questions about partitioning or anything, no warning about deleting current information and after installation finished, I noticed that Windows and all the data it

Lubuntu 12.10, A Slightly better Fit for my DELL Inspiron 5100 Laptop

location: ubuntuforums.com - date: March 24, 2013
To the Ubuntu/Lubuntu Community, For those who may still have a read my original post on my Dell Inspiron 5100 I ended up trying Lubuntu at the suggestion of on of the Moderator's of this forum. As I stated in my earlier post while Ubuntu 12.04 LTS did get my laptop from off the shelf and moving again I was still have some lag issue concerning the Video with the processor. For the most part Ubuntu 12.04 LTS did almost everything I wanted within a fair response time but light resource functionality of Lubuntu I felt did up the usability of my old Laptop overall. I will again go into what worked and did not work along with modifications made. What Versions of Linux that did not work - CentOS 6.3 both 32 bit and the 64 bit versions: The 64 bit did not processor did not work for obvious reasons (It was an old 32 bit only Processor P4). I had a little more luck with the 32 bit version of CentOS 6.3 that would allow the CentOS install get as far as getting ready to actually installing

Lubuntu 12.10/Atheros ar9285 no authentication with DDWRT router

location: ubuntuforums.com - date: March 28, 2013
This one has me pulling my hair out. I have a Asus Eee PC 1005ha, which I have set up dual boot with Windows 7 and Lubuntu 12.10 (btw, I've tried all the flavors of Ubuntu, in both their 12.04 and 12.10 incarnations, all show the same problem) with an Atheros ar9285 wireless adapter. The Windows OS on this machine, and every other device in the household (2 other Win PCs, a MacBook, iPad, iPhone, and 2 Android phones) can connect to my Linksys e1200 router with dd-wrt, setup as a wireless repeater, but the Lubuntu OS will not log in, and keeps getting rejected with bad password errors (yes, it is the correct password). The Lubuntu OS will connect to my primary router (e2500 stock firmware) as well as 3 other routers I've tried it with. I've tried using WPA2, WPA, and WEP (yeah I know it's insecure, but it's better than nuttin'), and all show the same symptom. It will work unsecured, but for obvious reasons I won't go that route. I've tried about everything I could find here and e

lubuntu 12.10 on ThinkPad T42p / Pentium M without PAE

location: ubuntuforums.com - date: October 19, 2012
We still have a couple of pretty old but still usable ThinkPads with Pentium M processors without PAE here, which I am not willing to give up yet. I just discovered, that from 12.10 there are no official 32bit non-PAE-kernels included any more, and no netboot non-pae/mini.iso image is provided, as it was for 12.04. So is there any possibility, to get 12.10 onto a non-pae capable machine? Can I install lubuntu 12.04 and upgrade to 12.10 keeping the non-pae kernel? I can't believe that I am stuck now with 12.04 (which is no LTS for lubuntu) or forced to move to another distro now.

Ubuntu/Lubuntu 12.10 or Linux Mint 14 XFCE for an older computer?

location: linuxquestions.com - date: March 26, 2013
This is kind of a fun question for you guys, I have a old/decent computer I found, it's an HP Workstation xw4200 or something. It has a Pentium 4 3.5ghz, 4GB of memory ( upgraded) and the hard drives surprisingly use SATA, I also put in a Geforce GT 220. This computer is for my mom who isn't too great with computers so remember that I would like a distro that is simple to use. It has win7 right now and it's pretty damn fast so I need a Linux distro that's probably faster than how it's operating now to convince my mother (as she'a always used Windows). Ubuntu is probably the most user friendly distro out there as well that it is fast and stable so I would like to put Ubuntu on it, however since the PC is a bit old I would like to squeeze in as much performance as I can and I was thinking of Linux Mint 14 with XFCE. Which do you think is better? OH ALSO, or would Lubuntu also be a good or better choice?