[brlug-general] Xubuntu Experiment

[Jonathan Helis]

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> Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2007 18:49:55 -0500
> From: Chopin Cusachs <cusachs at bellsouth.net>
> Subject: [brlug-general] Xubuntu Experiment
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> Decided to play with Xubuntu on an older machine.
> 
> So I downloaded the iso image and burned a live CD.
> 
> Came up fine -- no login.
> 
> Played with it some time, and decided to shut down.
> Did not find a button in the GUI, nor anything like a
> shutdown on a menu, so I opened a terminal and
> tried the shutdown command.  It didn't like my
> user privilege, so I tried su, and  got a login screen.
> Couldn't guess password -- started with carriage
> return.  Since I had not installed the OS, there was
> no supervisor account password.
> 
> Anyone know if there is a more graceful way to shut
> down when running from live CD than pulling the
> power cord?  (It did not respond to the reset button.)
> Or is there a default password?
> 
> Suspect that if I installed Xubuntu, I would be prompted
> to set up a couple of accounts and then could shut
> down from a terminal window.
> 
> Choppy

I ran Xubuntu on my old 400mhz AMDK6 for a little while and it did have 
a shutdown underneath the button that's the equivalent of the Start 
button in Windows.  However, it did have some trouble shutting down on 
that machine.  The Xubuntu logo would come up on a black screen and it 
would just hang and I either had to pull the power cord or use the power 
button to shut down.  Another, more modern machine, I installed Xubuntu 
on didn't have this problem, it would power down like it was supposed to.


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73,

Jonathan Helis, KB5IAV
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA