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Upgraded the Sempron 2400 to Xubuntu 11.10 “Oneiric Ocelot”

Friday, October 21st, 2011

  Just after Ubuntu new release also derivative distributions arrived as well. I so went through the upgrade process of the Xubuntu installation on my (old) desktop computer. I’ve been informed of the availability of the new release with the, almost daily, software update request. I then selected the “upgrade” button and let the whole process start.

xubuntu-11-10--0

the upgrade proceeded slowly but quite smooth, it showed some error in the process but it doesn’t seem to have influenced the final result.


 

 xubuntu-11-10--5


Conclusions

Here is my upgraded system

xubuntu-11-10--7

As I often say, about upgrading older computers, “No news good news”, the whole system continue working as good as before. Some little improvements are visible from the beginning like the better integration with Thunderbird mail client, than has now become the Ubuntu’s default one. Some odd behaviour may arise if you, like me, use Gnome applications inside the XFCE environment. Nautilus, for example, opens a background window that you can’t remove unless you kill it by console.

xubuntu-11-10--8

I suppose this window is in some way required to render the new menus on the top of the screen. You can, of course, go back using the good XFCE default file manager Thunar or live with this odd side effect. I only hope that windows manager developers will keep an eye on little compatibility problems like this while searching new and cool ways to let us interact with the computer.
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Posted by musante at 5:43:00 | permalink

Previous Comments

How’s the performance? I was planning to revive my Pentium 4 Desktop using Xubuntu.

Posted by Gumz at October 27, 2011, 2:23 pm

Thanks Gums for visiting,
Xubuntu performance on my Sempron 2400 (1.6GHz and 700MB RAM) isn't bad, in my opinion, good enough for everyday work like surfing the Internet or managing my photo album.

Posted by musante at October 27, 2011, 7:51 pm

BTW, how did you adjust your launcher height? looks clean… something to do with themes?

Posted by Gumz at October 27, 2011, 9:15 pm

The launcher, at the bottom and the left of the screen, it's not a XFCE panel, I use AWN for this (http://wiki.awn-project.org/)

Posted by musante at October 27, 2011, 10:03 pm

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