LXLE uses 3.2.x.x kernel
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From: Jörn Schönyan
Date: 10/17/2013 4:05 AM
To: Nio Wiklund;
Cc: lubuntu-qa@lists.launchpad.net;
Subject:Re: [Lubuntu-qa] Next respin tested 2013-10-17 00:43 (06.43 CEST)
Am 17.10.2013 10:47, schrieb Nio Wiklund: > Hi Jörn, > > Do you mean for really old computers (pre Pentium II), that are not > helped by fake-PAE? If you know there are people who need them, yes it > is a good idea. (But I would think there are not many people trying to > run any Ubuntu flavour in such computers nowadays. They probably try > some linux distro with a really small foot-print. And there are such > kernels available, maybe it is enough to link to them or maybe provide a > mirror.) According to Wikipedia, there are Pentium 3 that aren't capable of PAE. I am thinking about this machines. But, I am not 100% sure if this is a error on Wikipedia. > I think fake-PAE is good enough to make the current 32-bit kernels work > well with Celeron M and Pentium M CPUs. > > And there are 12.04 flavours and respins that promise long time support > until April 2017, PreciseGnomeClassicTweaks, LXLE and Bodhi plus Xubuntu > with LTS until April 2015. > > Best regards > Nio > Yes, there are. But any of this use the "old" 3.2 kernel from Precise, if I am correct.
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