12-28-2014, 09:23 AM | #16 | |
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10.04 has had no security updates in two years and is no longer supported so updating the OS is very highly recommended. You can manually update to GLIBC 2.13. Be sure to read the install instructions if all you do is just upgrade glibc. Tar-ball download link. Luck bernie Last edited by gbm; 12-28-2014 at 11:59 AM. Reason: add link |
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12-28-2014, 12:28 PM | #17 |
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I also recommend updating your OS. 10.04 is really outdated, and given all the security issues that were found int he last year in various linux libs, it's reallya good idea to upgrade.
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12-29-2014, 12:49 PM | #18 |
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Thank you again all. I have tried 12.04 and it runs but on a live CD I'm a little leery about updating it again only to wipe it and reinstall 10.04. I did try 14.04 and there was just no way it would run it was slower than MS 7 running updates.
GDM thank your the link I will attempt to install that and see what happens. I guess the only wise thing to do at this point is upgrade the OS and the machine itself if this doesn't work. Good day to all and I wish you all a very Happy New Year! |
12-29-2014, 03:11 PM | #19 | |
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Go to Distrowatch and try some of the light Distro's. bernie |
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Not only do you not want to run a heavy desktop like Unity or GNOME, you also don't want to judge the speed based on how well it runs off a LiveCD. LiveCDs are slow enough simply by being LiveCDs without compounding the problem by running heavy desktops.
You can get a little better speed by running the Live session from a USB, but that stil won't be as fast as your computer would run when the OS is booted off the internal HDD. If your HDD is big enough, you might want to repartition and try installing a more recent OS onto a different partition, that way you don't have to worry about reinstalling multiple times over your current OS just to revert. |
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Since the computer is just too old to run the current version, I'd say it's time to upgrade or replace the computer. There comes a time when even Linux isn't going to work well.
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01-09-2015, 02:29 PM | #24 |
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To eschwartz: When I said I ran it from a live CD I meant that I ran it off a USB using UNetbooten and I have a Terabyte SSD dual booting with Windows 7 and Ubuntu 10.04. I have the room.
Here is the break down of my little Frankenstein: Running Ubuntu 10.04 Kernel Linux 2.6.32-70-generic-pae GNOME 2.30.2 Hardware: Memory 2.0 GiB Processor 0: Intel (R) 4 CPU 3.20 GHz Processor 1: Intel (R) 4 CPU 3.20 GHz Available disk space 390.8 GiB I thank you all for your help and suggestions and I have come to the conclusion that I am going to retire my R2 and build another Frankenstein I wonder which came first R2 or C-3? Doesn't matter as long as I learned something along the way. Thank you all you have been a great help. |
01-09-2015, 03:40 PM | #25 |
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Honestly, that's more than enough to run 14.04 (LTS) or 14.10 in whatever variant you want.
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