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[JM <meets@xxxxxx>]

On Thu, 17 Oct 2013 14:42:20 +0200
Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Mélodie and Jörn,
> 
> [See replies inline]

Hi, same here, replying in the body of the mail.


> On 2013-10-17 13:52, JM wrote:
> > On Thu, 17 Oct 2013 11:05:08 +0200
> > Jörn Schönyan <joern.schoenyan@xxxxxx> wrote:

> >> Am 17.10.2013 10:47, schrieb Nio Wiklund:
> >>> Hi Jörn,
> >>>
> >>> Do you mean for really old computers (pre Pentium II), that are not
> >>> helped by fake-PAE?
> > ...
...

> >>> And there are 12.04 flavours and respins that promise long time support
> >>> until April 2017, PreciseGnomeClassicTweaks, LXLE and Bodhi plus Xubuntu
> >>> with LTS until April 2015.

> > Please add Ubuntu Openbox Remix to this list (Bento Village, built on Ubuntu Mini
> > Remix) ;-)

> Sure, Please give us a link, where it can be downloaded :-)

With pleasure. Here is the link:
http://tyruiop.eu/~melodie/Downloads/ISOS/LinuxVillage/Ubuntu

There is a short description here:
Bento Village October - http://forum.linuxvillage.org/index.php?topic=590.msg3617#msg3617


> > One thing which I don't understand is that the kernel actually in use is presented as
> > "3.11.0.11-generic" : is it a generic one, or is it the new name for all the pae
> > kernels in Ubuntu ?
> 
> All Ubuntu 32-bit kernels come with PAE since 12.10 if I rememeber
> correctly.

ah?!


> > As for which machines have "pae but not showing", how do you know which machine does
> > and which does not? (Apart from consulting Wikipedia?)
> 
> We have tested it. See this link
> 
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu-fake-PAE
> 
> I would be happy if you can add something to that list.

I will be happy to help when possible, just for the time being I don't understand much of
the technical parts presented in this page. I'll have to take a (long) moment to read
through and figure out some smart questions to get to understand it.


> > For Jörn's question : what about starting a poll on the Ubuntu forums to see if some
> > people would feel concerned?

> Feel free to do it :-) I think it is a good idea to find out (or at
> least get a notion of) how many people would feel concerned, before
> doing it (setting up a website with non-PAE kernels).

I can volunteer to start one in the French Ubuntu forums if it is ok for you. I would
like to leave to someone else the care of creating one in the English forums. :)

Regards,
Mélodie