If the hardware is from 2000+ then it is likely to have PAE support. And running Win 98 just means it wasn't older than that. Win 2000 was a business version, and XP as the next consumer version didn't come out until Oct 2001.
What I saw on Intel's site is that roughly 1999 is when everything had PAE. So the question is how old is too old, eventually there will be a cutoff, 12 years is pretty long. Plus the time that O is still supported. So close to 15 years total. John =:-> On Nov 13, 2011 6:21 PM, "Dotan Cohen" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 09:19, Martin Pool <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Computers are replaced as frequently as refrigerators by people who > don't > >> care how quickly it loads a page or makes ice: when it stops turning on. > > > > Those people are probably not upgrading their refrigerator firmware > > all that often either. They may not want a major new OS release. > > They might install an update/backport of a particular app. > > > > I am not aware of replacement refrigerator software. I do know of > people who for a variety of reasons continue to use perfectly > serviceable hardare from the early 2000S. In fact, one library that I > service is still using some ancient machine for their catalog that was > running on Windows 98 until a few months ago. It is now an Ubuntu > machine running wine. I do not remember which version of Ubuntu, but > it runs perfectly fine on that 13-year-old hardware. > > > > There is a group of people who want the latest-and-greatest software > > on old or small hardware, but they're necessarily the crowd you're > > describing here. > > > > I doubt that these people need latest-and-greatest software, but they > do need supported software. That is the argument for keeping the > non-PAE kernel in the LTS release. > > > -- > Dotan Cohen > > http://gibberish.co.il > http://what-is-what.com > > -- > ubuntu-devel mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel >
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