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On 11/04/11 17:47, Paul Sutton wrote:
On 11/04/11 17:34, Rob Beard wrote:On 11/04/11 15:25, Stephen Cutts wrote:Well the question rather than why use an old version, is why use Gnome when most users will more be comfy with the more windows like LXDE or KDE desktops? The added benefit of LXDE would be the fact is designed to be used on low end computers and as such is pretty light on what it eats up.You do have a point there. Okay personally I can't stand KDE4 but LXDE on something like Linux Mint LXDE edition is great and easy to lock down (menu items are a set of Desktop files in /usr/share or something along those lines which can be removed to remove menu items). But I suppose Paul has chosen something he's more familiar with, and I can perfectly understand that. Rob9.04 runs nicely on the lower memory systems, i had problems installing newer versions didn't work properly. So ok its out of date but it works, if we get some better spec clients then these can replace the older ones. well the spec is fine, just low memory seems to be an issue.
Yes, it works, BUT it is no longer support for things like security updates to it's applications and kernel. This COULD be a problem.
Yeah, end of the day what we have now is a working set of computers, some of the better spec computers run later versions ( and do) 1. they have internet clients 2. they have , flash so the kids and young people are happy playing online flash based games) I installed open arena on one of the better spec computers so that seemed to go down well.
Well that's good, but maybe if you let us know what problems you're getting with a newer distro then we might be able to help solve the issues. I still think as well maybe try Debian too (although I haven't the foggiest if a Debian Live CD is available).
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