upgrade from Lubuntu 12 LTS to Lubuntu 14 LTS on old desktop?

[Israel]

Hi,
In short: Yes you can, and should.  Do not use 12.04 as the version of
LXDE (what Lubuntu is built on) is not supported.
In Long:
You can still use 12.04 if you want to use a PPA to install a different
interface.  But even still 14.04 is a very snappy system.  I'd suggest
upgrading to 12.04 for many reasons.

With that amount of RAM everything is going to take more time to do, but
it will work.  256MB is too little RAM to install Lubuntu through a
regular CD, so in Aere's case upgrade was fairly essential, though I run
JWM on a very old Compaq with a very slow processor with 256 Ram, the
processor is too old to run flash, or HTML5 video but it works well for
use as a simple machine to do simple tasks.
To me 512 is generally plenty Ram especially when using JWM as the
entire setup I use only takes around 70-100 MB with all the bells and
whistles.  The interface performs really well, the issue is loading
bigger programs.

The easiest route would be to install Lubuntu 14.04, since you know
Lubuntu and are familiar with it.
I would suggest trying a lighter weight browser like qupzilla, though to
make the internet easier to use.


On 08/07/2015 12:28 AM, Aere Greenway wrote:
> On 08/06/2015 09:58 PM, Richard H. McCullough wrote:
>> Adding more RAM is not attractive -- this computer has older RAM which
>> is much more expensive than today's RAM. It would be more cost effective
>> to buy a new computer.
> 512 megabytes RAM should be enough for it.
>
> When I asked a computer store about upgrading my Dell 8200 machine
> (that had only 256 megabytes), I was told what you said above.
>
> But when I did a google search for:
>
> dell 8200 memory upgrade
>
> I see from the search results, rambus memory for upgrading it in the
> $41 to $60 range.
>
> That was true years ago, when I upgraded my machine to 1GB RAM - it
> wasn't as expensive as I had been led to believe, and that machine is
> now (with the memory upgrade) the primary machine of my daughter's
> family, which they have used for years, as of now.
>
> But then again, 512 megabytes of RAM will work (for 32-bit
> architecture).  256 megabytes (which was all my machine had), was not
> enough memory for general usage, and I had to upgrade it. Fortunately,
> it was not overly expensive to upgrade it.
>


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