Hi everybody! The original suggestion was to use Lubuntu, which suits very well for ageing Windows XP computers and their users. But Canonical staff decided to supply Ubuntu instead. I think the reason is that there is no LTS version of Lubuntu, and nine months is way too short life-time for the München project.
Unfortunately standard Ubuntu has too big foot-print for many of the ageing XP computers. If Precise Gnome Classic Tweaks had been delivered (as a tweaked respin), the chance of success would have been much greater (it allows switching between a good desktop environment for old computers and the modern Unity for newer computers). The One Button Installer is made for similar situations, to replace Windows XP, but there is an important difference. It is intended for USB pendrives, and cannot be mass-distributed as boot CDs. A user should download the image file and flash it to a pendrive, which can be used by several people in the neighbourhood. Precise Gnome Classic Tweaks as well as Lubuntu and several other versions, flavours and respins of Ubuntu are available as tarballs (compressed tar files). See this thread in the Ubuntu Forums and a direct link to a recent post http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2157233 http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2157233&page=2&p=12788404#post12788404 Best regards Nio -- Lubuntu-users mailing list Lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users
