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

[Ramnarayan.K]

On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 9:26 AM, Ritesh Sinha <sinha.k.ritesh at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
> I don't think this is a big deal (well apart from the Geode issue
> which is quite problematic and should be patched). Most desktop
> systems today are running i686 and systems that require 586 support
> can stick with the LTS which already supports them.

> I do not
> understand the need to upgrade to the latest and greatest if you have
> a machine that is working as required with the LTS.

Am still running 9.10 and am happy with it and will only move up when
access to the whole set of tools that i need is available. (meaning
either offline repos or broad band)

> It was inevitable, probably in a few years one would see
> dropped support for 32 bit architectures.

so is it better for people buying new machines to think in terms of 64 bit ??


>> **
>> To find out what processor you have use this in the command line
~$ uname -m
i686

So will probably survive the meerket progress :-)

and for any older machines (which according to a reponse in the
article are processors older than 1996- whoah way way back so i think
most people would be safe ) people can search for an appropriate small
version of linux of which there are plenty