As an owner of a rock solid, reliable Thinkpad T42p that is my everyday business computer and far from obsolete + over 14 years of commitment and experience in open source I am absolutely baffled by the path Canonical/Ubuntu has chosen to deal with non-pae hardware. Frankly my jaw dropped when I tried to launch the live CD and it didn't work. I have spent several hours searching for workarounds etc. so that I can give Precise/Unity a whirl on my laptop and frankly while there are some quasi-viable options I feel that Canonical/Ubuntu have really dropped the ball on this issue... especially given Mark Shuttleworth's goal of having 10 times the current installed base. I have to echo what others have said a) the early obsoleting of non-pae hardware is not consistent with Ubuntu's or Linux philosophy b) option 2 in post 39 makes sense c) there is a far larger installed base and potential installed base that will be affected by this. What worries me more than my own circumstances is that this particular decision represents the a trend to being out of touch with the customer.... one would expect this from Redmond and not from a Linux distribution... and especially not from Canonical/Ubuntu. Canonical/Ubuntu do the right thing... make it easy to help you sell the next generation of Ubuntu... and give non-pae machines the right to die a natural death.
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