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 <[email protected]> wrote: > Den 2014-12-09 14:57, Barry Titterton skrev: > > 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 (Windows only) computer training course. I, as > > you may expect, talked to the tutor and students about how Linux was > > good on older machines. The tutor then mentioned that they had three old > > laptops that they no longer used, and that I was welcome to try putting > > Linux on them. Two of the computers are old XP machines (Dell Latitude > > D505, Pentium M with 1 Gb RAM) that were donated by the local Teesdale > > council. The CPUs on these are non-pae so I am using Lubuntu with the > > 'forcepae' option on install. I have managed to get one working and am > > going back after New Year to do the second. The third machine is a much > > newer Win 7 Toshiba Satellite Pro (spec unknown), donated by BT, that > > never worked properly and was quickly retired to the store cupboard. I > > am unsure whether to use Mint 17 with cinnamon on this machine, or full > > Ubunutu as Unity may be too much these very inexperienced (and nervous) > > students. I don't want to confuse them by doing too much, too quickly. > > Does anyone know if these desktop environments will work together if > > installed on the same machine as alternatives? I have, in the past, > > tried XFCE and LXDE on the same machine and it did not work well. > > > > Regards, > > > > Barry T > > > > I'm glad to read that you succeeded with the first Dell Latitude :-) > > I have good experience with Toshiba laptops and linux. If the hard disk > drive is big enough (and I think it is), you can easily make a > multi-boot system with standard Ubuntu, Xubuntu, Lubuntu, maybe even > Kubuntu side by side with Linux Mint. For testing purposes you can > allocate a common swap partition of 2 GB, and divide the rest of the > drive into similar sized partitions, where you install the Ubuntu > flavour systems. > > First play around with it yourself to check that it is good enough for > you to show, then let the other guys try and find what they like. > > -o- > > If there is not space enough for several systems, it is possible to > install the various desktop environments (only) or the whole flavours on > top of each other. > > sudo apt-get install lxde # installs (adds) only the desktop environment > > sudo apt-get install lubuntu-desktop # installs (adds) all of Lubuntu > > sudo apt-get install xfce4 #installs (adds) only the desktop environment > > sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop # installs (adds) all of Xubuntu > > This will make a bloated system, but it works. I have done it and it > works for me, and can be recommended [at least] for testing. You select > the desktop environment at the login screen. > > Good luck :-) > Nio > > -- > Lubuntu-users mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users > -- https://wiki.ubuntu.com/phillw
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