I guess the point ends up simply being "lxde Ubuntu."

That is fine for a guy like myself because Lubuntu is awsome on my modern 
laptops, but I can see how it deviates from the original mission.   I feel 
bad for you guys.

Maybe official status isn't what's best for Lubuntu OR maybe you guys need to 
do a side project/distro? (I know, you need more devs.)

Tim



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On Nov 18, 2011 7:48 PM, Phill Whiteside <[email protected]> wrote:

Hiyas JM,
So there is no need to support the dropping of chip sets at 10.04, and none of 
at the next release?
If  Lubuntu cannot support old hardware, as julien has argued & 
pleaded about....

 What is the point of Lubuntu? 
Have a think of that question. It is one I have been asked many times, and is 
it exactly things like this that let me say me say "This is the point"... 

regards,
Phill.




On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 11:10 PM, Jonathan Marsden <[email protected]> 
wrote:

On Friday, November 18, 2011 7:43 PM, "Matthew Byers"

<[email protected]> wrote:



> Yes it will affect Pentium II.



Evidence, please?  That is not what the original email said at all. 
 It

is also not what all the info I have on which CPUs can do PAE says.



As far as I know, Pentium Pro and Pentium II CPUs all can do PAE, except

for some 400MHz Pentium M mobile CPUs.



As I understand the email, and based on by fading memory of which CPUs

do PAE, requiring PAE will only exclude Pentium I, a few 400MHz Pentium

M, really old AMD chips, and the "less known" alternatives such as the

Geode and the VIA C3.



All normal Pentium II processors should handle PAE just fine.  It looks

like wikipedia agrees with this (not that it is always 100% accurate,

but still, it's an easy to find online source).



Do you have info (or real world experience) that indicates otherwise?



*If* this proposed change makes it impractical to run on a Pentium II,

we need to stand up and be counted.  If (as I suspect) it only prevents

use on Pentium I, really old AMD, VIA C3 and Geode, then ... that's a

much smaller population of still-working computers, and I suggest we

let it slide.



Jonathan

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