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[Jared Norris <jrnorris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Has anyone read the posts from the developers here? Julien asked for
comment, Jonathan did some research and found that only Pentium I and
a limited number of Pentium II mobiles and a sprinkling of even less
other types of CPUs would be affected. I'm not certain but to me even
for the Lubuntu goals this seems to be a very small user base.

Can we stop thinking the worst and get back to going about the process
of seeing if it will actually hinder the Lubuntu goals or not. The
Ubuntu developers have only put it out as a something that MAY happen
depending on feedback. We need to decide what sort of feedback the
team needs to give.

So to this end, my question is, is there a simple command people can
run to see if their CPU can run PAE kernels? I would have thought if
"cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep pae" would not give any output if the CPUs
weren't capable? I'm not an expert so just wanting to confirm. That
way, instead of just complaining we can request users run this, see if
they will be affected and report back. We can then generate a team
stance and report back to the Ubuntu developers with some real data.


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Regards,

Jared Norris JP(Qual) BBehSc(Psych)
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JaredNorris