[ale] upgrading my obsolete Ubuntu 11.04 to What?

Mon Jan 7 10:08:11 EST 2013

Hi all,

I want to thank JD, James, Jim, and others who responded to this thread previously.  I've been tied up with repartitioning all my internal hard drives to 1 MiB sector boundaries.  I haven't had any chance to look at upgrading my Ubuntu installations yet.  However, I'll be re looking at all the info provided when I work on this project.

Thanks to Don for this message.  Snow Linux looks cool, however, my inclination is to either upgrade to or install 12.04 and then figure out how to add Mate.  It looks like the Snow Linux setup has a very small team of part time people.  I wouldn't want to be left hanging without support.

I'll probably try all this in a VM.  I really like the customizability of the Gnome 2 panels.  I never leave the panels in their default state in Ubuntu 11.04.  I put one up at the top to show what apps are running, along with the cpu frequency scaling monitor.  I put another over at the side to hold the menu, frequently used icons, and the cpu, memory, and swap monitors.  It also has the system tray of icons at the bottom.

I hope I can figure out a way to do this when I "upgrade" my system.

Sincerely,

Ron

Don Kramer <donkramer at gmail.com> wrote:

>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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