On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 11:51 PM, K Ramnarayan <[email protected]> wrote: > See article below, > > Start Article > > Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat Won't Run On Processors Below i686 > http://www.webupd8.org/2010/06/ubuntu-1010-maverick-meerkat-wont-run.html > If you're planning on using Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat on a computer with a > processor older than i686, well... you can't. > > Ubuntu 10.10 will be dropping support for i386-i586 processors so it can take > advantage of the i686 optimizations. > > > But there seem to be some issues with this: even some new processors which are > especially designed for low power consumption are i586. Such a processor is > the Geode LX800 - a pretty new processor for which a bug has been filled on > Launchpad but which most probably won't be fixed since Geode LX800 is a i586 > processor. > > > Thanks to Manish for the heads up! > > end article > *** > > My Thoughts: > > I thought that such moves were what M$ and FrApple would have done, make > existing hard ware obsolete. If this is true its absolutely terrible news for > ubuntu fans, what it might mean is migrating to another linux which will > support a wider range of processors. > > What do other folks think about this
This is surely a bad news, if not to all, but to some... I think Ubuntu or rather any Open Source OS should think about making 100% users happy, and not 99%... M$ made similar attempt in Vista and they failed, but that was much bigger change than what ubuntu has made. So I kind of having mixed reactions to Ubuntu these days... Looking at recent buzz around Ubuntu, I am try phase out to some other OS... > > ** > To find out what processor you have use this in the command line > > -$ uname -m > > ** > > ram > > -- > ubuntu-in mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in > -- ubuntu-in mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
