locked out of 12.10

[bugbear6502]

I've been running Ubuntu 11.04 for around 18 months, and avoided upgrading due to my crappy graphics card (intel 855GM) which is famously not-quite-3d, so Unity wasn't going to work well.

However, which various "horsepower" configuration options now available, I though I'd go modern.

My machine is a 1.5Ghz Intel Celeron, 750Mb of ram, and runs Gimp, Firefox, Libreoffice acceptably. I've even captured and edited 45 minute long tracks in Audacity.

http://server/fujitsu/ds_amilo_pro_v_series_e.pdf

But "someone" has decided that my machine isn't even good enough to run LUbuntu - no PAE. But
I've only got 750Mb - PAE is irrelevant.

I've upgraded to 12.04 which runs fine, but it's going to be a backwater.

What can I do?

BugBear

[darkod]

Backwater? I don't get it.

Do you have ubuntu 12.04 or lubuntu 12.04 right now?

[bugbear6502]

I've installed lubuntu 12.04, but don't see any way that I will (ever) be able to move forward from it. Hence "backwater".

BugBear

[darkod]

It wasn't clear from the first post because it also says "I've been running Ubuntu 11.04" and then "upgraded to 12.04" which confused me.

Because Ubuntu 12.04 is LTS and has 5 years support.

But you are right about Lubuntu 12.04, it's not an LTS and will not have 5 years support. I'm not sure they will be making LTS Lubuntu versions in the future, so if you plan to stick with older HW I guess you have to look into options. Constant upgrading, or clean installs, or another distro...

[I_can_see_the_light]

If you want to look at lightweight Debian based distros I can highly recommend Crunchbang.