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There is nothing technical about copy/past a command line in a terminal. That's all it takes to activate Extended Security Maintenance (ESM).

As long as you still receive security updates, there...

But there are reasons why Canonical offers Extended Security Maintenance (ESM). Sometimes you have machines you just don't want to upgrade. Everything works perfectly fine as it is. Upgrades require...

A lot of people don't care about the ''latest and greatest''. They just want a OS that is stable, rock solid and that meets their all of their needs. If you find one, I don't see why there is a...

The easiest thing to do would be to switch to Firefox Extended Support Release (ESR). The Mozilla Team has a PPA you can add that supports Ubuntu 16.04.
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Yep. Ubuntu 16.04 has extended support up to 2026. That OS is pretty much safe from major vulnerabilities as it receives security patches through updates. I don't see any problem in using a system...

The average joe should only install a LTS release anyway.

Lubuntu 18.04.2 LTS is running perfectly for me on My Dell Inspiron Intel Core i5.

I dropped FF some time ago on my aging PC. IMO, Firefox started to go downhill with the Australis UI. The browser became very sluggish and ressource-hungry. I'm not too convinced by this newer...

Firefox is bloated, no doubt.
That why I use Pale Moon, built on a fork of the Gecko engine and designed to be slim, fast and has the older Firefox UI.

You can also use Lubuntu, Peppermint OS,...

With 512 MB or 1GB of RAM, I would go for Puppy Linux. It is lighter on ressources than both Lubuntu or AntiX and does not require any installation (can be runned on Live CD or USB flash drive). If...

Unetbootin works well you just have to format the USB drive properly beforehand.

I use this little tool called ''Disk'' for that purpose, which is installed by default on many distros.

I'd say going for a lightweight Linux distro would consume less ressources, energy, produce less heat ect. which can theoritically prolong the lifespan of your hardware. We have seen a revival of...

Interesting but this is all really high-end hardware. I wish they would release more affordable Linux machines for the masses.

AFAIK, Ubuntu 16.04.2 now ships with linux kernel 4.8. as part of the HWE.

You should try this release and see if it fixes you Intel drivers issues.

Xfce works well for me on semi-old to older hardware. I find that it is the most consistent DE and it's light on ressources compared to Unity, Gnome3, KDE ect.

Linux Mint Xfce 18.1 runs smoothly...

Chrome, Firefox, Opera... They are all bloated to the core. Nothing has been as fast and lightweight to me as Pale Moon.

Support for some Firefox extensions, pre-Australis UI, great HTML5 support...

It's LXDE with some XFCE components. Pretty good and lightweight.

I personally think it's the best Ubuntu-based OS that can be found, it's just sooo stable. Rock solid.

Actually PepperMint 7 is using LXDE with a Xfce Panel. It looks greats and still very lightweight (around ~200 MB of RAM at idle).

It has replaced Lubuntu on my older machines, since it appears...

If you install Ubuntu Restricted Extras than you get the Chromium codecs. Since Chromium is open-source, it doesn't have any built-in. So they are included in the extras package.

The Fresh Player plugin will probably die eventually. The project was brought about by the fact that Adobe had ceased to release newer versions of Flash for Firefox. There was no other viable option...

Right but this is kind of a hack. The NPAPI flash plugin for Firefox-based browsers was stuck at version 11.2 since 2012. Some websites (like BBC) had stopped supporting this version. Now it will be...

Wow. Just wow. Is this even real? Omg.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/3116409/linux/adobe-revives-flash-for-firefox-on-linux-after-axing-it-four-years-ago.html


There is absolutely no reason...

Thanks a lot for your advice.

I tried Tori OS but unfortunately I had no sound whatsoever. Since I don't have the time and motivation to dig around for a possible solution I quickly moved on to...

Ok I'll try Tori OS first.

But should I use the Beta release or the DAILY ISO? Which one should be more stable at this point?

Hi,

A friend gave me an old Dell EC280 Mini-ITX from 2007 which he found lying around in his basement. He had no use for it and thought I might be able revive it with Linux. Obviously it's a...