[lubuntu-devel] non pae

[Phill. Whiteside]

Hi Nio,

we have until 22nd March before B2 testing, so if you'd be so kind as to
draft up some instructions I'll set up a mini-page as a spreadsheet so
volunteers can record results. I think such a thing will also be invaluable
as we move to wards dual running with LXQt so we have a common set of
benchmarks to test against.

Many thanks,

Phill.

On 11 March 2016 at 18:41, Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Phill,
>
> The kernel has increased in size and it needs more RAM than before. Maybe
> systemd also means that Lubuntu needs more RAM than before. In order to
> know the exact figures, I think someone really needs to test it (which does
> take time to perform).
>
> I am quite busy nowadays. Maybe we can ask someone (else) to do it. I can
> help by describing how to do it (and to get some kind of comparison between
> Xenial and Trusty).
>
> Best regards
> Nio
>
> Den 2016-03-11 kl. 18:24, skrev Phill. Whiteside:
>
>> Thanks Nio,
>>
>> I've prepped up the +1 page 'Advanced Methods' page for our upcoming
>> 16.04 LTS [1]. From my reading of the page, it is mainly to see if there
>> has been further 'RAM creep' for the minimum required from 14.04 to 16.04.
>>
>> Comments from you (and everyone else) greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Phill.
>> 1. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/AdvancedMethods+1
>>
>> On 11 March 2016 at 16:24, Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund at gmail.com
>> <mailto:nio.wiklund at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     Den 2016-03-11 kl. 16:29, skrev Phill. Whiteside:
>>
>>         Hi,
>>
>>         can you recall at which release we no longer needed to add the
>>         force-pae
>>         flag for the 'M' series CPU's.
>>
>>         Thanks,
>>
>>         Phill.
>>
>>
>>     Hi Phill,
>>
>>     *non-pae*
>>
>>     I think that the last version of the Ubuntu flavours with a non-pae
>>     kernel is 12.04 LTS (kernel series 3.2). Lubuntu, Xubuntu and
>>     mini.iso were available with non-pae kernels (but not standard
>>     Ubuntu, and I don't know about the other flavours). 12.10 and later
>>     versions have only PAE 32-bit kernels (and 64-bit kernels).
>>
>>     https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu-fake-PAE
>>
>>
>> http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/precise-updates/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/
>>
>>     *fake-pae*
>>
>>     Fake-pae was used for Lubuntu 13.04 and 13.10. (Remember that
>>     Lubuntu 12.04 was supported for 18 months, so it overlapped Raring
>>     in time.)
>>
>>     *forcepae*
>>
>>     We need no longer use fake-pae (installed via a ppa). Instead we
>>     need the boot option forcepae, which was introduced with 14.04 LTS
>>     (kernel series 3.13). I have tested forcepae with my IBM Thinkpad
>>     T42 (with Pentium M) and it works also with 15.10 and Xenial (to be
>>     released as 16.04 LTS).
>>
>>     Best regards
>>     Nio
>>
>>
>>
>
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