[ubuntu-uk] How old is your computer - the sequel.

[Phill Whiteside]

I have built a non PAE kernel from the 14.04 system, I'm not too sure how
many spins use it, but http://bentovillage.org/bento/ and
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/OBI certainly do.

regards,

Phill.

On 9 December 2014 at 17:33, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 9 December 2014 at 18:22, George DiceGeorge <dicegeorge at hotmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Why doesnt the bootup from CD interrogate the PC
> > and give useful advice about what to install
> > if the version on the install CD needs a more powerful PC or more RAM
> etc?
> >
> > I defected from Xubtuntu to Lubuntu because I thought it would work on
> > almost all old PCs,
> > but now I'm told it needs PAE CPU
> > and may crash inelegantly if the PC's too old for Lubuntu
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Address_Extension
>
> Ubuntu is trying to be a profit-making business. Rightly or wrongly,
> its main interest is developing an OS for modern and recent PCs, not
> legacy kit.
>
> It doesn't want users staying on old versions. It wants them all
> current. Apple has achieved a very high degree of this by making OS
> updates free and pushing them with ads and notifications and warnings
> at users -- but the upgrades are also quite painless. Ubuntu has a way
> to go.
>
> But what it's extremely unlikely to do is recommend that people
> install new copies of old versions!
>
> I disagree with the PAE move, but asking for the boot media to
> recommend an old version is just not realistic. ForcePAE is very
> helpful and might be enough to keep most people with older kit working
> for now.
>
> Replacement cycles for PCs are short, but they are getting longer,
> because since about 2007, PCs stopped doubling in speed every 18mth.
> The industry, sadly, has yet to adjust to this...
>
>
>
>
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