Dropping i386 non-PAE as a supported kernel flavour in Precise Pangolin
Scott Kitterman
ubuntu at kitterman.com
Thu Nov 10 12:41:23 UTC 2011
On 11/10/2011 04:26 AM, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 09, 2011 at 11:53:26PM +0200, Amir Eldor wrote:
>> I think these kind of computers will probably won't be installed with
>> Ubuntu at all, but X/Lubuntu might be a choice for them. As I understand
>> the kernel of Ubuntu is shared between the 'sister-releases', am I right?
>
> Yes, any change to the Ubuntu kernel would affect Xubuntu and Lubuntu
> too.
>
It also affects servers. I tend to use old desktops for specific server
tasks that aren't particularly CPU intensive and so I think that's
another use case that would be affected by this.
Scott K
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