Wasy Ubuntu Problems

[Brent]

Greetings,

I am a retired, broken down old audio sales person living in Western 
Canada. For entertainment and education I refurbish older PCs that I 
then give away to those who wouldn't otherwise have computers.

I have been installing Ubuntu 6.06LTS and Kubuntu 6.06 as my OS of 
choice and have not had any real issues until lately when Easy Ubuntu 
failed to install on two machines I have on the bench. I had been using 
the Deb package supplied by the Ubuntu team to do the installs but it no 
longer works. Doing a manual install fails to locate several packages on 
various repositories. Switching to 6.10 and using SVN gives me Berkley 
DB errors and "failure to allocate memory" errors.

Both machines are PIIIs with 384 (450mHz) and 512 (1.0gHz) of memory. 
Increasing the swap file size and adding more ram does not prevent these 
errors either. Both work fine for all other applications except for 
multimedia, hence the use of Easy Ubuntu.

Is there a problem with  Easy Ubuntu that I'm missing? Has it been 
suspended and is no longer available? I know there are legal issues in 
the US with respect to non-free codecs but does that apply here? There 
seems to be additional information at freecontrib.org but it's all in 
French but that is not my second language (I know, how un-Canadian is that?)

I am fairly new to Linux and am still learning so detailed assistance 
would be the best but I can muddle through generalized help too. Any and 
all help would be greatly appreciated.

Brent

ps, forgive the large font, I am legally blind and bigger is always better.
B
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