Hi Charlie, I see your point and agree, it's like an iceberg, there is much more than we see.
Have a look at these two wiki pages 1. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu-fake-PAE 2. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PAE and ask here if you help! I'm sudodus at the Ubuntu Forums, and I am developing Lubuntu-fake-PAE. Best regards Nio On 2013-05-09 19:41, Charlie Ford wrote: > I'm running a pentium M, but I never would have known to report it under > the bug report shown - since it's not bootable then I wouldn't know how > to even report it. I'm pretty new to this, and Lubuntu is mainly an > interest because it keeps my iBook G4 alive, but, I love Lu and wouldn't > mind it on my Inspiron, either. > > Perhaps I'm not the only one who tried Lu and found it not able to work, > and also didn't know to a) do a bug report, or b) what to file it under? > > > On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 1:29 PM, Nio Wiklund <nio.wikl...@gmail.com > <mailto:nio.wikl...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > On 2013-05-09 12:52, Ali Linx (amjjawad) wrote: > > Dear all, > > > > We are running a survey/poll to find out: > > > > *How Many Users are having Pentium M CPU?* > > > > - If you are in Linux, please run this command in your Terminal to > find > > out whether you do have a Pentium M CPU or not: > > > > cat /proc/cpuinfo > > > > - If you are using Windows, please go to Control Panel > System OR > Right > > Click on My Computer > Properties > > > > So, please *_BEFORE_* voting, make sure what type of CPU do you > have :) > > > > As always, thank you so much for taking the time to vote! > > > > http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/XQC6KNZ > > > > > > *_Note:_* > > *You can ONLY vote once!* > > > > > > Regards, > > Lubuntu Communications Team > > > > -- > > *Best Regards,* > > *amjjawad <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/amjjawad/>* > > *Start Ubuntu > > > > <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu/CommunicationsTeam/WOWLubuntu/StartUbuntu>* > > > > /Test Machine: ASUS F3F Laptop - //Intel Core Duo T2350 @ 1.86GHz with > > 489MB RAM/ > > > We stopped the poll at 100 replies. And here are my personal comments: > > In this short time 30 people have reported that they have a Pentium M. > My guess is that at least 20 of them have pae capability but no pae > flag, so they can benefit from Lubuntu-fake-PAE. > > And it is 30% of those responding, which is much higher than I had > expected. Anyway, combined with the number of people who have reported > that they are affected by bug #930447 at Launchpad, 93, we are assured > that many people have Pentium M. > > OK, the Lubuntu users are probably running much older hardware than the > average computer user, but anyway, I think you can easily imagine how > many Pentium M computers there are running Windows XP. > > We can help the users keep these computers running, now that we have > methods to make attractive software available at 'XP end of life' in > April 2014. > > Best regards > Nio > > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-qa > <https://launchpad.net/%7Elubuntu-qa> > Post to : lubuntu-qa@lists.launchpad.net > <mailto:lubuntu-qa@lists.launchpad.net> > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-qa > <https://launchpad.net/%7Elubuntu-qa> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > > -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-qa Post to : lubuntu-qa@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-qa More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
