Re: Upgrade Problem: Lubuntu PPC G3 13.04 to 13.10

2014-05-07 Thread farinet
Am 07.05.2014 14:00, schrieb lubuntu-users-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com: Two other possible solutions could be to try CrunchBang (very undemanding Debian-based distro) or LXLE which is to Lubumtu LTS more or less as Mint is to Ubuntu. These distros gllow easy access to the main Debian and Ubuntu repo

Re: Upgrade Problem: Lubuntu PPC G3 13.04 to 13.10

2014-05-07 Thread Basil Fernie
Apologies to all who wondered why I didn't pick up "Mac"... Too many 22-hr days in succession, resulting in very dry, blurry eyes. Sorry! On Wed, 07 May 2014 04:02:09 +0200, Basil Fernie wrote: Two other possible solutions could be to try CrunchBang (very undemanding Debian-based distr

Re: Upgrade Problem: Lubuntu PPC G3 13.04 to 13.10

2014-05-06 Thread Israel
Unfortunately Puppy doesn't run on PowerPC. You can always build a minimal system from either UbuntuMini Iso, or Debian... It is rather fun, and you can exclude a display manager or use something like Slim instead of LightDM. I would try the video=nomodeset parameter first, and making sure you have

Re: Upgrade Problem: Lubuntu PPC G3 13.04 to 13.10

2014-05-06 Thread Basil Fernie
Two other possible solutions could be to try CrunchBang (very undemanding Debian-based distro) or LXLE which is to Lubumtu LTS more or less as Mint is to Ubuntu. These distros gllow easy access to the main Debian and Ubuntu repositories respectively, so you can pick and choose from the vat

Re: Upgrade Problem: Lubuntu PPC G3 13.04 to 13.10

2014-05-06 Thread Israel
On 05/06/2014 05:32 PM, Michael Dean Neukirchen wrote: > Greetings; newbie here! > Old PowerBook PPC G3, 500 Mhz, 650 Mb ram; Mac PowerBook 'Pismo'. > Lubuntu resurrected it, but for how long?! > I've tried to update, twice, to newer, supported version 13.10, with > bad effects: white screen - w

Upgrade Problem: Lubuntu PPC G3 13.04 to 13.10

2014-05-06 Thread Michael Dean Neukirchen
Greetings; newbie here! Old PowerBook PPC G3, 500 Mhz, 650 Mb ram; Mac PowerBook 'Pismo'. Lubuntu resurrected it, but for how long?! I've tried to update, twice, to newer, supported version 13.10, with bad effects: white screen - without the ability to toggle to terminal. Would an upgrade not