Non-PAE kernel in 12.10

Basil Chupin blchupin at iinet.net.au
Wed Feb 27 03:32:08 UTC 2013


On 27/02/13 08:42, Ric Moore wrote:
> On 02/26/2013 01:05 AM, Basil Chupin wrote:
>
>> Eh, your choice of course - and your self-imposed purgatory. You're
>> using the wrong distro. OpenSUSE, for example, during installation
>> recognises which kernel you need[*] and installs it.
>>
>> Possibly other distros do the same.
>
> There you have it. We can present a case, wait to see what the 
> official line becomes and go from there. I just don't want that 
> initial "Ubuntu" spirit to become kicked to the curb. i didn't have 
> much dog in the fight with 16 gigs of ram, and 6 multi-cores. Trying 
> to revive the old Thinkpad put things into focus for me.
>
> Back when, gOS was an Ubuntu based distro that worked great on very 
> old iron. Sadly it has been abandoned. Ric

That's the way I have been seeing it for a while now - the initial 
euphoria for the OS has now been jaded.

BC

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