On Fri, 15 Oct 2010 00:20:54 -0400 Ben Coleman <[email protected]> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 10/14/2010 07:24 PM, Benny Hult wrote: > > But it lacks with packages if you compare to Lubuntu. > > Hope we can see you using Lubuntu still in the future, becouse the grass > > ain't greener on the other side of the fence ;) > > Well, turns out that my other Lubuntu candidate (A Compaq Armada 7800 > running a PII/266) is i686-class despite being slower than the AMD, so > Lubuntu 10.10 should run OK on it, if I can manage to burn a Lubuntu > CD-R that it will read (the CDROM reader on this machine tends to be a > bit finicky, and it's old enough that I don't think that it will boot > from USB Flash). > It is unfortunate this problem as it mainly effects AMD chips as far as I can gather. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/eglibc/+bug/587186I One solution if you want to run Lubuntu on the 586 machine would be to use the10.04 (Lucid) version, which is what I’ve done on a couple of machines. If you’re having problems with the CD drive it may be worth looking at http://www.pendrivelinux.com/ which has a couple of ways of booting flash drives, using either a floppy http://www.pendrivelinux.com/use-a-floppy-to-boot-usb-pendrive-linux/#more-294 or CD. -- Steve Cook (Yorvyk) http://lubuntu.net _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
