[ale] upgrading my obsolete Ubuntu 11.04 to What?

[Don Kramer]

Snow Linux 2 (Creme) is a Ubuntu 12.04 based distro that installs with Mate
1.2 by default.

http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Snowlinux-2-delivers-a-GNOME-2-based-Ubuntu-1586876.html

The installers are hard to find off of SnowLinux's main page (replaced by
the Ubuntu 12.10 based releases and the Mate version doesn't default to the
default Gnome 2 panels in the 12.10 based release) so I'll include the link
for the 12.04 based release that also has LTS support for five years:

http://www.linuxrelease.com/2012/05/snowlinux-2-mate.html

I installed the 64-bit version on a spare laptop, the only quirk I found is
for some reason the installer didn't like my touch pad and I had to attach
a USB mouse (the 32-bit installer was fine) after the install the 64-bit
version recognized by touchpad fine.

My main personal driver (outside of work) has been running Debian Squeeze
for over eightteen months now, with backports that gives me the 3.2 kernel
and new Xorg version, and Gnome 2.30.  On a circa 2008 Dell with Intel
i9300 processor, 6GB RAM, and non-integrated graphics, it runs great.  My
one complaint with the upcoming Debian Wheezy release is because of timing
Mate will not make the cut as an alternative desktop environment in the
installer.  IMHO the cleanest MATE config one can do is install a barebones
Debian Wheezy install, then install Xorg, then add the Wheezy repo for Mate
and install that for your DE.







On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 11:18 AM, Edward Holcroft <eholcroft at mkainc.com>wrote:

> If I was realistic, I'd still be using Windows.
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 11:07 AM, James Sumners <james.sumners at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Riiiight, because creating deb packages is simple. Be realistic.
>> Unless you've gone the LFS route, this isn't feasible with _any_
>> distribution.
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 10:56 AM, Edward Holcroft <eholcroft at mkainc.com>
>> wrote:
>> > And my (poorly made) point is that it doesn't. All Ubuntu support means
>> is
>> > that Canonical is rolling the debs for you. As long as you have the
>> Linux
>> > source code at your disposal, you can keep patching your system for as
>> long
>> > as you have an itch to scratch. In perpetuity, if that's what you want.
>>
>>
>>
>> --
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>> http://james.roomfullofmirrors.com/
>>
>> "All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts
>> pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it
>> is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become
>> drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted."
>>
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>> CH:D 59
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