On 10/01/13 09:45, Neil Bothwick wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">
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On Thu, 10 Jan 2013 09:23:39 +0000, Sebastian Arcus wrote:<br>
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I should be OK for presentation next month - unless something is<br>
already planned for the LUG meeting.<br>
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We have Roger Whittaker from SUSE booked for next month, the month after<br>
would be good.<br>
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<br></div></blockquote><div>Has Roger confirmed? You probably told me that before Christmas and I've forgotten. I knew we had him pencilled in for Feb. Good news.</div><div><br></div><div>A quick report on last night. 4 of us turned up. Will, Ben, Tony and myself. We went through all the computer kit in the corner and worked out what was worth keeping, then threw out some of the rubbish. Both machines are now working and have all the peripherals they need. </div>
<div><br></div><div>They're running Ubuntu 10.04 and we discussed upgrades. My worry with moving to standard 12.04 would be Unity, the complete change of interface for users and the amount of resources it needs. They're old P4 machines and don't have amazing graphics cards. According to my research 10.04 LTS support stops in April this year. With 12.04 the desktop support cycle was extended to 5 years, so it'll get updates till 2017. This makes a good proposition for us. So perhaps installing 12.04 with an alternative desktop or using a version of Mint based on it would be good. I'm open to suggestions. The current interface is Gnome 2. So Gnome 3, KDE, Unity or even XFCE will involve users learning something new. That's always the battle.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I propose to head down there one Saturday afternoon and spend a bit longer sorting things out. I'll let you know more concrete plans nearer the time if anyone wants to join me.</div><div><br></div>
<div>Thanks to all who came along last night, we'll see the rest of you next month I hope. Best wishes :)</div><div><br></div><div>Dan</div><div> </div></div>