Hello Everyone!
I've been using Ubuntu on my netbook since 9.10 had just been released. It came with Windows 7 Starter.... which took me all of a week to decide I absolutely hated. What a stupid excuse for an OS. At any rate, that's when I started to research Linux... eventually leading me to choose Ubuntu Netbook Remix (9.10). Loved it. Totally. SO easy and simple to use, and SO fast on a netbook.
So I've been using it pretty consistently since then, upgrading to new versions as they came out. Everything was great until... 12.10(?). I can no longer control the brightness of my screen (previous solutions for my netbook no longer worked), and the interface was constantly crashing to the login screen. Every. Ten. Minutes. Not good. Especially when the machine's primary purpose is to take notes at business meetings and conferences!
So I decided I'd flush 12.10 (after wiping Ubuntu off the HDD and starting again with a clean install... which still had issues), and roll back to the old 9.10 that I loved so much. I'm typing on it right now. It just seems there's absolutely no support for it anymore! I understand that there will be no new updates and all, but The software center keeps telling me that nothing is available "for your current hardware configuration" or "In the current Data" or some other similar message. Annoying.
What are my options? Am I totally stuck with strictly the default installation? Or is there another repository somewhere I can get things like the FFmpeg libraries? Alternatively, is there a lighter version of Ubuntu available somewhere for a slower computer? Or could I run the old interface under 12.10?
Thanks a bunch in advance!
Mark
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