Ubuntu 12.04 Will Not Support Old CPUs

Posted by hanuca on Nov 14, 2011 2:22 PM EDT
Softpedia; By Marius Nestor
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During the Ubuntu Developer Summit event for the upcoming Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) operating system, the developers talked about removing the non-PAE i386 supported kernel flavor.

PAE (Physical Address Extension) is an addition to x86 (32-bit) processors, which allows the CPUs to address more that 4GB of physical memory.

If the non-PAE i386 kernel will be removed from Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, non-PAE users will have to upgrade to the PAE kernel, and processors missing the PAE and i686 support will be orphaned.

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