Dropping i386 non-PAE as a supported kernel flavour in Precise Pangolin

Scott Kitterman ubuntu at kitterman.com
Wed Nov 9 22:33:51 UTC 2011


On 11/09/2011 05:12 PM, Stéphane Graber wrote:
...
> As it's an LTS, that's going to give these users an extra 5 years of
> support for their hardware which should be plenty enough for that
> relatively old hardware.
...

As the proud owner of hardware that will not run on any release newer 
than Hardy, I can vouch for this being really helpful.  As it is, I'll 
probably get 4 more years of service out of the box than I would have 
due to it being supported in an LTS.

I think right after an LTS is the best time to drop hardware support.

Scott K



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