No Ubuntu on i686
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| Author | Content |
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| Steven_Rosenber Jun 08, 2010 6:45 PM EDT |
I imagine that there will be some kind of community effort to build for i586 (or even i386), plus there's always Debian, Slackware, the BSDs and others that support < i686. There are other distros that are i686 only, I believe. Is Fedora among them? |
| gus3 Jun 08, 2010 6:51 PM EDT |
Mandriva, maybe. In its earlier life, Mandrake was Red Hat re-done for Pentium and higher. |
| herzeleid Jun 09, 2010 3:12 AM EDT |
What's with the misleading title? The fact is, ubuntu 10.10 will *only* run on 686 - or better. |
| Sander_Marechal Jun 09, 2010 4:26 AM EDT |
@herzeleid: My guess is that LXer ate an < in the title. |
| JaseP Jun 09, 2010 11:15 AM EDT |
I smell yet another Ubuntu fork... 3buntu anyone?!?! |
| Steven_Rosenber Jun 09, 2010 2:04 PM EDT |
I've never had great luck running Ubuntu or Xubuntu on older machines, esp. i486 and i386, anyway. Debian happens to run great on older hardware, and Debian continues to maintain ports for PowerPC, 64-bit SPARC and other architectures that Ubuntu is abandoning. |
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