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I have an old windows xp laptop that i want to try out Linux on – the laptops main roles will be watching mpeg vids, listening to mp3s and web surfing, with some occasional light office use – the machine itself is a dual core pentium Lenovo laptop, with one gig of RAM – I’ve tried a couple of live cds out on my Windows 7 laptop – Ubuntu 13.04 and Lubuntu 12.04.03 lxle – on the newer laptop they both work easily well – my question is……. are the specs of the older machine good enough to run Ubuntu?….. or, should I go for the Lubuntu lxle which advertises itself as suitable for older machines?…. or is there another variant of ubuntu which would fit the bill better?

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Bug watch
src="https://launchpad.net/@@/milestone" />	ubuntu-docs	New	Undecided	-

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Bug watch
src="https://launchpad.net/@@/milestone" />	ubuntu-docs	New	Undecided	-

This happened after i installed the latest updates (from update manager) yesterday. I don’t remember installing anything else than that. I use dual boot with windows home premium x64 + Ubuntu 12.04 with gnome 3.4 desktop environment. I installed gnome last week and i was enjoying the best experience i really ever had in linux with this set up. When i try to load Ubuntu, it shows standard Ubuntu loading screen and then a black command prompt comes up (with my computer’s name and something like ‘tty1′ at the end) asking me my user name and password. I enter my user name and pass but it never accepts. always prompts ‘wrong user name/pass’. What’s wrong? how can i save my ubuntu?