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Re: Idea for i586

 

No, I think you're wrong. However, the more newer CPU's which only support
i586 (AMD Geode and others (I'd have to look it up to be sure thou)) also
support PAE. So your assumption might be correct, but for the wrong reasons.

With metta, Chris
On Dec 22, 2011 1:24 PM, "Martin Olesen" <skovprodukter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 2011/12/21 Yorvyk <yorvik.ubunto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > On Wed, 21 Dec 2011 19:14:08 -0300
> > Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset <jpxsat@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> First, don't kill me for bringing back this topic ;)
> >>
> >> Since Lubuntu is official, maybe the cause for dropping i586 is obsolete
> >> (if I remember right it was because none of the flavours could run in
> it,
> >> so there was no "market" there).
> >> Aditionally, there's the fact that LTS are the less demanding resource
> >> releases :) (experieced by me with 8.04 and 10.04)
> >> Maybe we could ask nicely, together with Xubuntu, that at least for the
> LTS
> >> *ubuntu could exist for i586...
> >> I doesn't sound completely crazy to me.
> >>
> > Is there any call for i586 kernel?  Has anybody complained of it's
> absence?  I would imagine there would have to be some numbers produced to
> justify it's inclusion.
> >
> > --
> > Yorvyk
> >
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> If I understand this correctly we are dealing with processors 12
> (twelve) years old or more having a clock frequency of less than 300
> MHz. Such a computer is hardly usable for any practical purpose.
>
> I'd say we (that is, the Buntu community in general) should forget
> about them and focus on getting better support for new hardware.
>
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