On 9 December 2014 at 18:22, George DiceGeorge <[email protected]> wrote: > Why doesnt the bootup from CD interrogate the PC > and give useful advice about what to install > if the version on the install CD needs a more powerful PC or more RAM etc? > > I defected from Xubtuntu to Lubuntu because I thought it would work on > almost all old PCs, > but now I'm told it needs PAE CPU > and may crash inelegantly if the PC's too old for Lubuntu > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Address_Extension
Ubuntu is trying to be a profit-making business. Rightly or wrongly, its main interest is developing an OS for modern and recent PCs, not legacy kit. It doesn't want users staying on old versions. It wants them all current. Apple has achieved a very high degree of this by making OS updates free and pushing them with ads and notifications and warnings at users -- but the upgrades are also quite painless. Ubuntu has a way to go. But what it's extremely unlikely to do is recommend that people install new copies of old versions! I disagree with the PAE move, but asking for the boot media to recommend an old version is just not realistic. ForcePAE is very helpful and might be enough to keep most people with older kit working for now. Replacement cycles for PCs are short, but they are getting longer, because since about 2007, PCs stopped doubling in speed every 18mth. The industry, sadly, has yet to adjust to this... -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: [email protected] • GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: [email protected] • Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven Cell/Mobiles: +44 7939-087884 (UK) • +420 702 829 053 (ČR) -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
