On 15/08/2015, Stephen Powell <zlinux...@wowway.com> wrote: > On Thu, 13 Aug 2015 04:23:17 -0400 (EDT), didier gaumet wrote: >> >> Sorry, I didn't catch you were using Ubuntu. Apparently, Ubuntu has >> dropped support for 586 procs (their "386" linux images being in fact >> 686 ones). That's not the case in Debian, x86 non-PAE procs still being >> supported (linux-image-*-586) > > We're getting off topic from the original intent of the OP's thread. > But since you mentioned this ... > > I sure am glad that I use Debian and not Ubuntu. My IBM ThinkPad X31 > laptop, which is still quite usable, would be a brick if I ran Ubuntu. > It has a Pentium M processor in it, and that processor does not have > the PAE feature. > > Long live pure Debian! And kudos to the Debian kernel team! > > -- > .''`. Stephen Powell <zlinux...@wowway.com> > : :' : > `. `'` > `- > >
I will try again, for the fourth time, to compose and send the message, as the last previous attempt, deleted the whole of the message, in the sending. You can denigrate Ubuntu Linux all you want, but there is no need for your denigration, to be public, or, on this list. The PAE problem was solved. Ubuntu Linux was the only operating system that could be found, other than MS Windows 8, that has the necessary drivers for this computer. No BSD variant, and, no Linux variant, other than Ubuntu Linux, had the necessary hardware drivers for this computer. It took me two years, to get this computer operational. The problems involved, have been extensivley discussed, on this and other mailing lists. And, in the course of my trying to get this computer working satisfactorily, I was directed to Ubuntu-mate, so that I could have a workable desktop environment, due to the elimination of GNOME 2. Having got this computer working, with Ubuntu 14.04 running the mate desktop environment, and, with Ubuntu-mate 15.04, and, because the Debian 6 installation on my HP Compaq NX5000, was not stable, I tried to install the i386 version of Ubuntu-mate 15.04. A problem involving the PAE issue, was discovered and resolved. When trying to do a system update on that system, the PAE problem recurred, and, with the gracious assistance of didier gaumet, that problem was resolved, and, a solution to the PAE problem, relating to your Pentium M CPU, was mentioned, if you would be bothered to do anything about that. Anyway, the PAE problem was resolved, and, , with that problem having been solved, starting a competition along the lines of who can urinate highest up the wall, is not helpful to anyone, and only takes us down to the level of the australian tennis players. Just because the australian tennis people think that a lout who is playing for them, defaming the partner of one of his rivals, by making a sexual slur against her, is acceptable, does not mean that we have to descend to that level. So, as the PAE problem is resolved, can we end your urinating up the wall competetion, and, leave the PAE issue alone, unless someone else has an unresolved problem associated with the PAE issue? Thank you. And, hopefully, in using a different web browser this time, the sending of the message, will not cause the message content to be deleted. -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .............. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means." - Deep Thought, Chapter 28 of Book 1 of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy In Four Parts", written by Douglas Adams, published by Pan Books, 1992 ....................................................
