Lubuntu anyone?

[TBABill]

First, since Lubuntu is being developed along with Xubuntu/Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Edubuntu/etc...why is there no drop-down in the "prefix" for posting a new thread for Lubuntu? Is it because it's not an "official" *buntu?

Anyway, my reason for posting is that Lubuntu is awesome. I've been running Mint 8 64 bit and it is pretty fast and flash performance is great. So I installed Lubuntu 10.04 Alpha 3 as another partition and I have to say....WOW it flies. I had to play with LXDE to figure out how to configure it how I want it because I'm new to LXDE, but the browser (Chromium is the default browser!) is amazingly fast...even faster than Chrome and Firefox 3.6 in Mint 8.

Lubuntu has all the repo software available and I added some, changed the wallpaper, reconfigured the OPEN SOURCE nVidia driver (that works great!) and installed all non-free apps to get it up and running smoothly. This thing rocks and I'll keep running it till final comes out. I'll use Mint if anything goes wrong since this is an alpha, but I love it so far.

[MCVenom]

First, since Lubuntu is being developed along with Xubuntu/Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Edubuntu/etc...why is there no drop-down in the "prefix" for posting a new thread for Lubuntu? Is it because it's not an "official" *buntu?

Anyway, my reason for posting is that Lubuntu is awesome. I've been running Mint 8 64 bit and it is pretty fast and flash performance is great. So I installed Lubuntu 10.04 Alpha 3 as another partition and I have to say....WOW it flies. I had to play with LXDE to figure out how to configure it how I want it because I'm new to LXDE, but the browser (Chromium is the default browser!) is amazingly fast...even faster than Chrome and Firefox 3.6 in Mint 8.

Lubuntu has all the repo software available and I added some, changed the wallpaper, reconfigured the OPEN SOURCE nVidia driver (that works great!) and installed all non-free apps to get it up and running smoothly. This thing rocks and I'll keep running it till final comes out. I'll use Mint if anything goes wrong since this is an alpha, but I love it so far.
I guess it's just not as well known, personally I'm interested :D

[kerry_s]

can you post a pic of your lxde i'm interested to see how you got it?

i'm still working on my debian lxde, it's shared with my niece so i keep it simple. currently i'm just working out the suspend stuff(get wireless back up on resume), then i was thinking about doing some keyboard shortcuts, like the print key for screen shots. ;)

specs: 450mhz 256mb ram

[J_Stanton]

im going to give it a try.

[mastablasta]

seems interesting and has the necessary porgrammes in repositories.

from what i read it seems it should work OK on 128MB RAM. If it works on less like 64MB it would really give life back to old computers. DSL and Puppy are nice and fast, but their programme support could put off the average user. But with OO 3.x, Pidgin and Firefox... what else do you need, huh?

[TBABill]

Only problems I have encountered so far are that it does not retain your video resolution setting upon reboot and when you switch to a higher resolution the background does not stretch appropriately even when you select stretch to fill screen. Also the wireless works great, but it does not retain your encryption key upon reboot or login.

Since this is an alpha I suspect these minor things will get worked out and it'll be really nice to use. So far I'll stick with Mint 8 till the later betas come out then give it some more time testing.

[jwmollman]

Just tried the first beta of Lubuntu 10.04 on my EeePC 1000HA. It is very nice! It was very snappy and everything worked perfectly out-of-the-box. Currently, I run a minimal install of Ubuntu 9.10 with only gnome-core installed. This system is the fastest I've ever run on my EeePC, and I'm anxious for the release of Lubuntu. Looks like I'll stick with this current Ubuntu until that beautiful Lubuntu comes out.

From what I tried, it was just the first beta. Imagine how much better the second beta, and finally, the release candidate will be. :D

[J_Stanton]

from what i read it seems it should work OK on 128MB RAM. If it works on less like 64MB it would really give life back to old computers.

not realistic to work well on less than 256ram. let's face it, modern apps use more ram than they did when said old computer came out. unless you are prepared to do a cli install and build it up, anything less than 256ram will struggle with any modern os. but there's always puppy and slitaz for those inclined.

[1roxtar]

I actually have Lubuntu Beta 1 running on an old Compaq Presario 5000 (256mgs RAM, 500mhz Celeron processor). I use this pc to test how well distros work on such an old machine. Lubuntu is running suprisingly well. While browsing the internet, it uses about 135mgs of memory. Of course, I can't run memory intensive programs, but it's still snappy and plays Youtube videos with very minimal lagging. I can't wait to install the final product when it comes out.

[WinRiddance]

I had to play with LXDE to figure out how to configure it how I want it because I'm new to LXDE, but the browser (Chromium is the default browser!) is amazingly fast...even faster than Chrome and Firefox 3.6 in Mint 8.

Lubuntu has all the repo software available and I added some, changed the wallpaper, reconfigured the OPEN SOURCE nVidia driver (that works great!) and installed all non-free apps to get it up and running smoothly. This thing rocks and I'll keep running it till final comes out. I'll use Mint if anything goes wrong since this is an alpha, but I love it so far.


Boy, I could really use some help with the current setup that I'm working on. Based on tons of research & articles that I've read I figured that Lubuntu would be the best choice for an 11 year old computer that belongs to one of our relatives who's never had a computer before. I've only been using Ubuntu Jaunty/Karmic/Lucid for a little over a year now and I guess that's why Lubuntu is not performing as I expected.

The system is an old Sony Vaio with 1.7 Ghz P4 and 256 MB of Ram. I left the old dual-boot WinXP in place just in case which is why I can safely say that WinXP with SP3 updates performs considerably better than Lubuntu. I actually expected the opposite ...

Lubuntu does work pretty good and it recognized the 10 Gbit WiFi card that I installed without a problem. But everything that I do, regardless if Internet or just desktop related, seems to stagger on the screen. Just about nothing performs fluently. I do have a 2 GB swap file set up on the machine. Also, in WinXP the CPU powers down when apps aren't being used, but in Lubuntu the CPU/fan just races endlessly. I can walk away for an hour and nothing has changed.

Previously I installed Ubuntu Lucid Lynx on this machine, no kidding, and it actually worked. Sure, slower than Lubuntu but it worked and it even recognized the 3D capability of the Radeon 9000 Pro that I installed.

Any suggestions what I can do to make that system run smoother with Lubuntu? Keep in mind that I'm still a bit of a noob myself ...

[WinterRain]

from what i read it seems it should work OK on 128MB RAM.

No, it won't. It may technically run, but will be slower than molasses in the winter. Even 256 is a bit iffy.

[leclerc65]

I tried Lucid Puppy 5.0.1 on a 7 year old, 256M RAM Compaq Laptop, and it works quite well. Even the the wireless Broadcom works OOTB.

[WinRiddance]

Yesterday I went ahead and installed 1 GB of Ram in this machine with 1.7 Ghz. P4 and 64 MB Radeon 9000 Pro. Then I spent a couple of hours last night as well as a few more hours today to configure this system where the processor wouldn't continue screaming endlessly. Yes, there was substantially more speed and I could open up half a dozen applications at one - including 2 from OpenOffice - but the severe lack of eyecandy was just a bit too much. Yeah, tried different themes, panel settings, backgrounds, etc. On a 20 inch LCD everything (but the background) looks like, well, like poop (for lack of better words).

Installed all of the updates which included something for Chromium ... and that was the end of that. Every time that I would open Chromium thereafter it would hang the system. Absolutely nothing would respond anymore - hard reset - nothing else would work and we all know that that's a no no. Played around for over an hour with various settings and software apps. but the problem occurred each and every time when I tried to use Chromium while connected with my WiFi.

Eventually I got sick of it and did something just for kicks to see what the performance difference would be with the increased 1 GB of Ram. So I went ahead and installed the 32bit version of Xubuntu. OMG, I can't believe how this machine screams now !!!
With Xubuntu the perfomance is doubled when compared to Lubuntu. I have no idea what it was that was bogging Lubuntu down but I did absolutely nothing to the Xubuntu installation. Installed the updates right away and rebooted. Then I had a screaming machine that seems to be almost as fast as my dual-core 64bit system with 4 GB Ram. Unbelievable ... WOW ... I'm like totally impressed by Xubuntu !!!

[RJARRRPCGP]

Yesterday I went ahead and installed 1 GB of Ram in this machine with 1.7 Ghz. P4 and 64 MB Radeon 9000 Pro. Then I spent a couple of hours last night as well as a few more hours today to configure this system where the processor wouldn't continue screaming endlessly. Yes, there was substantially more speed and I could open up half a dozen applications at one - including 2 from OpenOffice - but the severe lack of eyecandy was just a bit too much. Yeah, tried different themes, panel settings, backgrounds, etc. On a 20 inch LCD everything (but the background) looks like, well, like poop (for lack of better words).

Installed all of the updates which included something for Chromium ... and that was the end of that. Every time that I would open Chromium thereafter it would hang the system. Absolutely nothing would respond anymore - hard reset - nothing else would work and we all know that that's a no no. Played around for over an hour with various settings and software apps. but the problem occurred each and every time when I tried to use Chromium while connected with my WiFi.

Eventually I got sick of it and did something just for kicks to see what the performance difference would be with the increased 1 GB of Ram. So I went ahead and installed the 32bit version of Xubuntu. OMG, I can't believe how this machine screams now !!!
With Xubuntu the perfomance is doubled when compared to Lubuntu. I have no idea what it was that was bogging Lubuntu down but I did absolutely nothing to the Xubuntu installation. Installed the updates right away and rebooted. Then I had a screaming machine that seems to be almost as fast as my dual-core 64bit system with 4 GB Ram. Unbelievable ... WOW ... I'm like totally impressed by Xubuntu !!!

For me, Lubuntu was the fastest!

I have a hard time believing Xubuntu is faster!

I doubt it would be with my Acer Aspire M5630.

Also, SliTaz 3.0 makes even Lubuntu look like a hog!

It's as small as Windows 98 SE on the HDD. And most things load faster!

[TakZK22]

I honestly haven't heard of Lubuntu, and from the looks of it, it sounds pretty fast.
low RAM environment for netbooks Heh, I was actually thinking of installing Ubuntu on my netbook, but I'll give this a shot and if it's good, I'll stick with it :D

[sxmaxchine]

I have been meaning to download it but havent got around to it yet.

[overdrank]

Thanks for sharing. Thread closed. :)