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How to install software or upgrade from old unsupported release?
I have a very old laptop (6-7 years) with a 1.6 Ghz Intel processor and 512 Mb DDr2 of RAM and I was wondering if I can keep this version of Ubuntu (9.04) installed on it. I've installed the 11.10 version but it's extremely slow on my laptop, some times it even hangs if I open more than 3 tabs in Firefox. My main problem is that I can't update any of my drivers or even install new ones since this version that I'm using is outdated.
At the moment I'm using a freshly installed Ubuntu 9.04 with zero updates because when I installed 11.10 I chose to do a full format over it since I had almost nothing important on my hard disk worth keeping.
(I remember that when I first installed Ubuntu 9.04 and successfully connected to the internet, everything was easy.)
With all the other disclaimers re: no updates, no security ...
There are most old repositories available at http://old-releases.ubuntu.com
so edit /etc/apt/sources.list and change 'archive.ubuntu.com' to 'old-releases.ubuntu.com'
You can do this with sed
sudo sed -i -e 's/archive.ubuntu.com/old-releases.ubuntu.com/g' /etc/apt/sources.list
then update with
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Alternately use a lighter weight distro such as lubuntu, slitaz or tinycore.
Attention: you should only use the old-release archive if you have no possibility to upgrade to a newer version, because you won't get any security updates using these old archives
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