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[Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 2013-10-17 19:36, JM wrote:
> 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

Thanks :-)

>>> 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
> 
Hi Mélodie,

It is OK for me that you start a poll in the French Ubuntu forums.

Best regards
Nio