Anyone running 10.10/Maverick?

My wife is getting fed up with Linpus's rather old versions of OO and Firefox, and rather than updating these, I'm considering Ubuntu. I can see lots of talk about 10.4 but little/nothing regards 10.10 - anyone using it? I'm trying the NBR version from USB in Live Mode, but it's been booting for about ten mins now and seems to be thrashing the SSD - swap?
Ian

 

Lubuntu 10.10

 

Use Lubuntu 10.10! I tested several Ubuntu versions but this is the most responsive one. The LXDE desktop is fast and can be configured and themed as you want and and can be as beautyful as all other Ubuntu derivatives...

 

I'll take a look at lubuntu. Her needs are quite simple -

1) Firefox + Flash, etc. She uses FF on her Windows desktop so is used to it.
2) Skype
3) Dropbox
4) OpenOffice. Abiword might do as long as it can open all Word formats including those of Word 2010.

That's it! If lubuntu can deliver all of this, then we'll be happy. I'll give it a go later on today.

Ian

 

OK, lubuntu 10.10 is going very well. I had to install/tweak quite a bit of stuff to get things how I wanted them; I'll do a summary once I'm 100% there.

Thanks for the recommendation.

Ian

 

Ian,

have you tried the chromium browser? Runs much faster than FF.

Dominik

 

I've tried Chrome/Chromium, but my wife knows FF and uses it on her Windows PC, so I've installed this and have uninstalled Chromium.

I'm pretty impressed by the way that lubuntu has wifi+sd+camera+audio+hotkeys working straight out of the box. The only tweaks were to install lubuntu-restricted-extras, xfce4-power-manager, apt-xapian-index and configure acerhfd. Getting skype to connect was a struggle, and I ended up deleting the .Skype folder and changing the default port to 63493, but it's now working fine. Dropbox just worked, which was nice. Oh, and I also installed software-center so my wife doesn't have to learn synaptic.

BTW, I went for 7GB root and 1GB swap. lubuntu by default didn't have any swap, but I figured I needed some given we're going to be running slightly more heavy-weight applications than the defaults.

Ian

 

Glad to here that you're happy with it.

How much RAM do you have? I have 1.5 Gigs and I'm running w/o Swap. Never had an issue.

 

The A110L came with 512MB (at least ours did) so that's what we're working with. My first computer had 4KB of memory, so 512MB seems like an awful lot!
Ian

 

Hello,

Here running 10.10 with Xubuntu and Opera on oo1 110 with SSD.
Opera runs very fast (faster than Chrome or Chromium) but is a RAM hog ...
It run pretty good and personally I prefer XFCE to LXDE ...

The power management module could be better ...

Regards from Lisbon- Portugal