Anybody tested Lubuntu 10.04 Beta Yet

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As of right now I am downloading the Lubuntu 10.04 Beta Image. Which just happened to be released a few days ago. As you know Lubuntu is pretty much Ubuntu based on LXDE. I have used Debian Sarge as well as VectorLinux with LXDE and both systems ran great. However this time I'll now put the new Lubuntu to test. I will attempt to install it on 3 older computer systems with 256MB of Ram and below. If I happened to install Lubuntu on one or more of the systems I will post the screenshots online. The 3 systems I listed below will all have Lubuntu Installed and I will then post the results of the installation and how well they ran in terms of everyday use.

2000-Era Dell Dimension
700MHz Intel Celeron
256MB Ram
20GB Hard Drive
10/100 Ethernet
Intel 810 Video

If that gos well I will test it on this hardware

1998-Era Compaq Presario
400MHz AMD K6-2
128MB Ram
12GB Quantum Bigfoot
10/100 Ethernet
Sis 530 Video

Then I will give myself the Ultimate Test.

1998-Era HP Pavilion

333MHz AMD K6-2
64MB Ram
8GB Quantum Bigfoot
10/ 100 Ethernet

I will post the screenshots and results for all 3 systems on this thread. I just need to best of luck from all of you and come to Google when I come into trouble. If any one of you want to test out Lubuntu on older hardware you more than welcome to. I will have a link to the Lubuntu CD Images Below.

http://linux.softpedia.com/progDownload ... 50492.html

I have just booted up the Dell Dimension and Installed Lubuntu. Works great. Chromium is set as the default browser. (What Google Chrome is based on.) PCManFM is of course the file manager which works well and OpenBox is the session manager. Osmo is your personal organizer and Sylpseed is default e-mail. I truly can say that Lubuntu is fast. Even on 10-Year Old Hardware

Lubuntu is the next Xubuntu if not better. Even with just a 700MHz Processor and 256MB Ram I could run OpenOffice 3.2, have Cromium Open as well as Aqualung Music Player playing songs off my MP3 Player. Not a speed demon with OpenOffice but better than XP on comparable hardware.

As for the Dell it had a 20GB Hard Drive. I set up a 1 GB Swap of memory-hungry programs like OpenOffice and the rest was a EXT3 Partition. Since EXT4 slows down older hardware in a lot of cases.

So far so good. I could honestly so Xubuntu has been dethroned as the lightweight Ubuntu distro I should soon pull up some screen-shots from the 700MHz Dell and will soon go after the Compaq and the HP.

Last edited by gamefreak on 22 Mar 2010, 7:41 am, edited 1 time in total.

I think I'll try to be one of the Gamma testers...
Reloading an OS every coupla months seems not to do it for me, but hey, it's a big freeway, so why not, if you're so inclined?

If your OS works, why do you want to change it?
What does the new one do that the old one doesn't that makes it worth
the time and effort, however insignificant compared to some OSs it may be?

Your don't get it. I'm using an this OS on older hardware that can't run Windows XP or Ubuntu that well.

I will have to try it then. I do for the same reasons.

Well, the process of installing is fun. The discovery of what is new is fun too. My hardware is new as well, I continuously update, always exploring the edges.

Scrrenshots from the 700MHz Dell are in

I should now pull out the Compaq Presario and see how that 12 year old computer fares. I will report back to my experience and put up some screenshots. Remember this computer will only have 128MB Ram and a 400MHz AMD K6 Processor. Hardware that will run Puppy Linux in most circumstances.

I put regular Ubuntu 9.10 onto my Dell Inspiron 1501 that had been running 8.04 and it has been a serious dissapointment. There is some weird bug that appears to switch around or lose the mount points, causing the root filesystem to be remounted read-only - just as if there were a hard disk error. Except I have installed it on more than one Inspiron 1501 with the same result, and there are plenty of reports of similar bugs.

I am hoping that 10.04 fixes it because I used to be quite gruntled with Ubuntu.

gamefreak, I LOVE THIS THREAD. you're awesome.
I know this might be asking a lot, but is there anyway you could take screenshot video of it and post it on youtube so we can see how snappy it is (or is not)?
I cant wait to see if Lubuntu can handle the meager 64mb ultimate test.
Thanks again gamefreak
Long live Lubuntu!

Is LXNM functioning yet? I remember that being the biggest hurdle to running LXDE on my laptop.

From what I've noticed with Lubuntu is that they had the network interface from GNOME as the default. I'm guessing there is still some Wi-Fi issues with LXNM to use it on Lubuntru.

Yeah, that's the work-around I used, but if I switched over to LXDE (which I quite like) I wouldn't want to have run a ton of GNOME stuff on top of it.

Agree on that, I prefer to use what the Desktop Environment comes with. Causes less issues

And LXDE is nice. Very fast, even on my old iMac (from 1999!) and it is still a good, intuitive interface, rather like a superior version of the WinXP interface. It is also very transparent and easy to configure, has good documentation, and seems to have a real commitment to staying lightweight, unlike Xfce which keeps getting heavier and heavier.