Folks

Starting with the standard desktop flavour of 16.04, I always managed to get in a tangle on my old Dell Precision 390 when trying to add Trinity. It has an old Quadro NVS 285 video card that works nicely once Trinity is installed but makes a mess of the default desktop with my dual 1280x1920 screens.

I had to blacklist nouveau and install the Nvidea driver, which is far more than necessary, the latest version won't work anyway, and a real pain in the derriere.

I suspect people will have similar problems trying many current versions of Linux with a lot of old kit which is otherwise perfectly adequate and functional.

So just install (Ubuntu 16.04) SERVER (ie no X), upgrade all packages, add the Trinity repositories then install kubuntu-default-settings-trinity and kubuntu-desktop-trinity.

Nothing else - it pulls in all the packages required, all 500 odd of them.

No messing with a fuzzy purple screen, you see all the console startup meesages and then it loads TDE on F7 and of course you can get a command line login in Ctl-Alt-F1 etc.

Very nice and clean. Who wants any other desktop? And why ask for a bundled Trinity Linux which makes unnecessary extra work?

Perhaps such a hint could be added to the installation guides...

Best wishes

John

John Logsdon Quantex Research Ltd +44 161 445 4951/+44 7717758675