HI
There is no need to over react, they can still work using 12.04, but
there is also a way to do it with 13.04 with a little of work. An
important number of old Thinkpads use a Pentim M processor (as in the
case of Joan) so the are afected by this problem which is the following:
"A number of older Pentium M
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Pentium_M_microprocessors>
processors produced around 2003-4 (the ones with 400 MHz front side bus)
do not display the PAE flag, and hence a standard installation fails.
However, these processors are in fact able to run the latest (and
PAE-demanding) kernels if only the installation process is modified a
little. "
As stated in https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PAE, also there are the
options you can choose and the procedure to follow, of course in step 6
you can choose and put xlubuntu-desktop instead.
El 29/07/13 07:33, peter escribió:
so dear linux-team,
does it means:
all old notebooks and computer are to die ?
there must be a way to keep old maschine alife !
looking forward to a how to ,
peter
Am 29.07.2013 14:19, schrieb Bruno Benitez:
Joan, kernel for non-PAE microprocessors was dropped since 12.10,
last ISO with non-PAE kernel support was 12.04, see the release notes
http://xubuntu.org/news/12-04-release/ :)
2013/7/29 Joan Advincula <mj.advinc...@gmail.com
<mailto:mj.advinc...@gmail.com>>
By the way, I think we also need to clarify the CPU type and
whatnot. (There are still lots of things about CPU's that I don't
understand.)
I tried installing 13.04 on an old IBM ThinkPad and it wouldn't
install because the CPU is missing something, apparently. (It
runs on and Intel Pentium M 1600 MHz.)
Something about pae. I'm still Googling that part though so this
might be irrelevant.
- Joan
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