[ubuntu-us-ma] Oneiric Release

[Pete Jalajas]

Hi,

Re the old lightweight machines, I've been using NoMachine NX and
FreeNX for years, and x2go more recently.  I've dabbled with
ThinStation boot CDs.   So, using the old lightweight machines as
thin-clients to a remote-desktop server might work for your use-case?

Re your google doc, re Lubuntu hanging,  maybe there is a kernel boot
option (noapic, nolapic or whatever) that might work for you?

Re RAM chips, I use David Dion at Brick Computer in Ipswich for much
of my hardware:  http://www.ergo-computing.com/

Good luck,
Pete

> Message: 6
> Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 11:24:40 -0400
> From: Corey Goldberg <corey.goldberg at canonical.com>
> To: ubuntu-us-ma at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-us-ma] Oneiric Release
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>> I'm planning on rebuilding a computer lab of ~1.8ghz & 512mb computers
>> with Ubuntu in the next couple of weeks.  But with the Unity push,
>> does Ubuntu still support that old of machine?
> I was able to put Xubuntu 11.04 onto some very old Dell 4000 laptops,
> making them responsive with only 256Mb of RAM. Still working out some
> WiFi problems. Any suggestions would be welcome. The goal of the teacher
> who has them is to connect to Google Docs using Firefox which does work
> OK with the 256Mb. (By the way, the install worked better using the
> Xubuntu alternate CD. The Live CD gave me problems. You can look at my
> work notes here:
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/17_LF7yyWGGnhlOTbE8uMq6ZlTdroAafX-Snj6E-rGF4/edit?hl=en_US
>
> Anybody know of a cheap source of 256Mb PC 100 laptop memory chips? A
> donation would be even better. The New Bedford system doesn't seem ready
> to put money into these old computers which have been in a closet for
> about five years.
>
> Happy birthday KDE, 15 today!
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