[ubuntu-in] Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat Won't Run On Processors Below i686

[K Ramnarayan]

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Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat Won't Run On Processors Below i686
http://www.webupd8.org/2010/06/ubuntu-1010-maverick-meerkat-wont-run.html
If you're planning on using Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat on a computer with a 
processor older than i686, well... you can't.

Ubuntu 10.10 will be dropping support for i386-i586 processors so it can take 
advantage of the i686 optimizations.


But there seem to be some issues with this: even some new processors which are 
especially designed for low power consumption are i586. Such a processor is 
the Geode LX800 - a pretty new processor for which a bug has been filled on 
Launchpad but which most probably won't be fixed since Geode LX800 is a i586 
processor.


Thanks to Manish for the heads up!

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My Thoughts:

I thought that such moves were what M$ and FrApple would have done, make 
existing hard ware obsolete. If this is true its absolutely terrible news for 
ubuntu fans, what it might mean is migrating to another linux which will 
support a wider range of processors.

What do other folks think about this

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To find out what processor you have use this in the command line

-$ uname -m

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ram