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[Phill Whiteside <PhillW@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hiyas,

I'm also sending, as opposed to CC'ing, Julien just to check that my AFAIK
is correct.

Canonical decided to cease support for 'non-pae' chipsets. We did have a
fairly lively discussion on the subject as to being able to continue to
support such chip-sets. The answer that came back was that the decision was
final. Our only recourse would be to back-port to our releases that fully
supported such chip-sets, which was before our adoption. Quite simply, yes
we would love to back-port to 10.04 and support it, but we cannot give
12.04 as an LTS either  - *we simply do not have enough people who are able
to do so.*

Honest, just as we are doing with ppc on this release - we ARE trying, but
there are simply not enough people to be able to sort out back-porting.

I'm sure Julien will correct me on any points that I am wrong on.

sadly,

Phill.




On 10 February 2012 03:02, Lance <lbsolost@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> First of all I have no hardware that's incapable of running the pae kernel
> but a few folks have reported at the forums getting an error, "kernel
> requires feature pae and won't boot", particularly with Pentium M machines.
>
> I've been doing some studying and it looks like upgrades from Oneiric
> w/non-pae to Precise remain non-pae, and undoubtedly using the mini.iso
> will work, but I'd think both of those options would require fast ethernet.
>
> I also typically encounter problems using the mini.iso with my wired
> network, that's nothing new, I just end up having to connect the machine
> that's booting the mini.iso directly to my modem, which means all of my
> other machines have to be down while the net-install completes.
>
> BTW I'm talking about the non-pae mini.iso:
>
>
> http://www.us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/precise/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/
>
> Anyway here at Launchpad:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/897786
>
> Stéphane Graber said, "I know some flavours of Ubuntu chose to ship with
> non-PAE by default, using one of these (probably xubuntu and lubuntu) would
> work too."
>
> So I wonder if we are in fact going to rebuild our iso's with the non-pae
> kernel? It would seem rather appropriate since our target audience is
> older, lower resource computers.
>
> Many thanks in advance,
>
> Lance
>
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