{"id":1051,"date":"2013-07-14T18:17:36","date_gmt":"2013-07-14T06:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/?p=1051"},"modified":"2013-07-14T18:33:51","modified_gmt":"2013-07-14T06:33:51","slug":"lubuntu-awesome-for-older-hardware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/p-s.co.nz\/wordpress\/lubuntu-awesome-for-older-hardware\/","title":{"rendered":"Lubuntu Awesome for Older Hardware"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lubuntu<\/a> is a great way of using older hardware that can’t handle the video requirements of Ubuntu. I’ve just installed Lubuntu 13.04 on two machines – one as an in-place upgrade from Ubuntu 11.04; one as a fresh install over Ubuntu 11.04 on a dual boot (after backing up the home folder of course!).<\/p>\n

On the latter, I had to sort out Broadcom wireless again after many years of being able to ignore it. Because I didn’t have a working ethernet connection, I needed to get the deb for linux-firmware-nonfree and install it via the terminal with:<\/p>\n

sudo dpkg -e ...deb<\/code><\/p>\n

Then (leafpad is the Lubuntu default text editor – an alternative to gedit etc):<\/p>\n

sudo leafpad \/etc\/modules<\/code><\/p>\n

Added a new line on the end
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\nb43<\/code><\/p>\n

And wireless is a solved problem \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Shifting thunderbird from a backup drive was easy. Copy across the new …..default folder into ~\/.thunderbird and change the relevant line in profile.ini to point to it.<\/p>\n

To put icons on the desktop, find the program on the menu, right click and make a desktop icon. To change the name of the icon, right click, select Open with … and open the desktop file (like a Windows shortcut) with leafpad. Change the Name= e.g. from
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\nName=Thunderbird Mail<\/code><\/p>\n

to:
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\nName=Thunderbird<\/code><\/p>\n

To position icons in a tidy manner, select them all and right click then select snap to grid.<\/p>\n

Finally, I changed the wallpaper to be the Lubuntu one which looks like Ubuntu phone, changed the icon set to Humanity, shifted the panel to the top, and added a CPU applet to the panel.<\/p>\n

I also got shockwave working in Chromium – I think<\/em> it was by installing the flashplugin-installer. However I did it, I’m grateful to have Youtube working plus some web games for the kids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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