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[Matthew Byers <faintstlsaint@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yes it will affect Pentium II. Do we have options of compiling the
kernel within lubuntu to continue support.

2011/11/18 神癒礁湖 (Rafael Laguna) <rafaellaguna@xxxxxxxxx>

> 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.
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> Will this affect those users?
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>   <http://lubuntublog.blogspot.com/>  <http://www.lubuntu.net/>
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> 2011/11/18 Julien Lavergne <gilir@xxxxxxxxxx>
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>> 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 <tim.gardner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: Ubuntu Kernel Team <kernel-team@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>> ubuntu-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> 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
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>> 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
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