But there're Lubuntu users on Pentium II and similar machines. In fact they're happy an OS can handle those "trashy" computers and make them useable.
Will this affect those users? <http://lubuntublog.blogspot.com/> <http://www.lubuntu.net/> 2011/11/18 Julien Lavergne <[email protected]> > I forgot to forward this mail from ubuntu-devel, it may have an impact on > Lubuntu since we shared the same kernel. > > Regards, > Julien Lavergne > > Begin forwarded message: > > Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2011 14:43:28 -0700 > From: Tim Gardner <[email protected]> > To: Ubuntu Kernel Team <[email protected]>, > [email protected] > Subject: Dropping i386 non-PAE as a supported kernel flavour in Precise > Pangolin > > > Per discussion at UDS the kernel team is proposing to drop the non-PAE > i386 flavour. The upgrade path for non-PAE users will be the PAE kernel. > Those CPUs that do not have i686 and PAE support will be orphaned. To > the best of my knowledge, these include Intel CPUs prior to Pentium II, > 400Mhz Pentium M, VIA C3, and Geode LX. As far as I know, there are no > laptop or desktop class CPUs being produced that do not meet these > minimum requirements. > > Before I do something that is difficult to revert, I would like to hear > from the development community why we should continue to maintain a > kernel flavour that is (in my opinion) getting increasingly low > utilization. It is my feeling that an extremely high percentage of users > of the non-PAE kernel have a CPU that is PAE capable. > > If there is sufficient community demand (and support), I would be > willing to sponsor the first non-PAE kernel upload to Universe. > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/Specs/PreciseKernelConfigReview > > We'll be conducting a similar survey for powerpc. > > rtg > > P.S. For those of you that are totally confused by this email, PAE > (Physical Address Extension) was an addition to 32 bit x86 CPUs that > allowed them to address more then 4GB physical memory. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Address_Extension > -- > Tim Gardner [email protected] > > -- > ubuntu-devel mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel > > > -- > Julien Lavergne <[email protected]> > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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