Installing Old Release (Maverick): Problem or Impossible

Please read this:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

Maverick is not supported at all anymore since April 2012.

Brian
If you tell what features you liked, someone may help you get the features you want, on a supported release.

I suggest you install Trusty. It is LTS and supported til April 2019. You can also upgrade directly to Xenial in April next year as LTS to LTS upgrades are supported.

I have remarks in to directions:

1. Ubuntu maverick is no more supported. You can of course install it if you want (by downloading the desktop or alternate iso file from http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/releases/maverick/ ). You have to be aware that there are no changes done any more, not even fixes for critical bugs.

2. If you get a message like "could not find kernel image: /isolinux/vesamenu.c32", then apparently there was something wrong when preparing the installer kit. Did you perform a md5 check before burning the DVD to verify that the .iso file did not have errors? Which tool did you use for burning the DVD?

Your replies have been helpful.
It was while looking at info about disc integrity check that I got the impression only post '12 releases were testable.
 Features I happen to like are 1) Window Roll-up upon double clicking the top bar. 2) Hover clicking. I know it's available in Universal access but it seems to have different qualities. 3) I also preferred the smaller tool bar style and its options. I seem to spend more time than I want getting the big left launcher to do what I want.
I have Precise right now. Moving back to Maverick seemed easier than trying out numerous more advanced releases. If you know of releases with my preferences let me know. Thanks.

There are no updates for Maverick so the only source of packages are the ones on the CD you create. There is also zero community support for it. You are also wide open to heartbleed and other insecurities which you may have seen online.

All this bad for some eye candy and features that are in the newer releases.... Seems like a bad choice.

Also another problem I've had is when I've tried to Upgrade from Precise I get a message suggesting that my 2011 Acer Aspire won't be able to handle some graphics abilities.

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actionparsnip proposed the following answer:
There are no updates for Maverick so the only source of packages are the
ones on the CD you create. There is also zero community support for it.
You are also wide open to heartbleed and other insecurities which you
may have seen online.

All this bad for some eye candy and features that are in the newer
releases.... Seems like a bad choice.

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Getting wordy on this subject is refining my thoughts so I want to be accurate and brief. Please bear with me.

I often work with a dozen GIMP windows on my desktop simultaneously. So, having {1} DOUBLE CLICK WINDOW SCROLLING ROLL-UP and {2} HOVER WINDOW RAISING really helps production, organization and decreases frustration. Sorry, Universal Access Hover Clicking is more sensitivity than I can use. I just want to raise that window whose tiny corner is all I can see.

Maybe I need to contact Ubuntu software designers to include these features either as an update or for future versions. How do I make contact with them?

Brian

In 14.04 the unity plugin takes over the drawing of the decorations from the window decoration plugin,
to enable menus to be shown in the titlebar.
The window decoration plugin can't be enabled with unity enabled.

I know the feature is included in xfce and enlightenment (E16-19) when using a supported theme,

These statements are from site below.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2225970

Have you looked at Xubuntu, to find if it is more in line with what you need? Check site below for graphic card requirements.

http://askubuntu.com/questions/333795/what-are-the-system-requirements-for-each-flavour-of-ubuntu-desktop

Hello,

I don't know exactly what is a "double click window scrolling roll-up, but if it's the old way of handling windows and menus you are looking for, I suggest you take a look at this:

http://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/gnome-session-fallback

This window is in french but you will have it in English... When you open your session, you can easily select which display and behaviour you want (see chapter 2 first image of the link above).

As I am a developer I also always have many windows open and I really hate losing time to find them. So I have this fallback stuff with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and is working perfectly. Anyways, I thing that it will be more easy for you with the Gimp multiple windows.

Good luck
Enrico

http://www.anisor.ch

Yeah, I think I'm going to go with 14.04. Thanks for all your help.