[vox] Can anyone help?

[Philip Ballew]

Yes, all Ubuntu releases now have a pae kernel.
On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 12:48 PM, Francisco <cyan255 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think the PAE kernel that is default of the latest Ubuntu release wont
> boot on the P4, tho there may be a way to boot without PAE enabled
>
> Scot A <gvlt55 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >Alex,
> >That sounds reasonable.
> >I think you may need this info as well.
> >Pentium(R)  4 1.70 GHz CPU
> >1.69 GHz 1.00 GB of RAM
> >Thanks again for the info!
> >Namaste'
> >Scot
> >
> >
> >
> >On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Alex Mandel <tech_dev at wildintellect.com
> >wrote:
> >
> >> On 02/14/2013 04:08 PM, Vincenzo Ampolo wrote:
> >> > On 02/14/2013 03:30 PM, Bill Ward wrote:
> >> >> Why? Is that because of gnome? How about Xubuntu?
> >> >
> >> > It's because latest unity wants 3d drivers by default.
> >> > I tried to run it without 3d drivers on my pc and it simply freezes or
> >> > is near to freeze as soon as I attached to an external monitor.
> >> >
> >> > I was good to go as soon as I installed the nvidia drivers with 3d
> >> support.
> >> >
> >> > And this is 2 years old pc, I can't imagine with a 10 years old one.
> >> >
> >> > This doesn't mean that you can't run it, just expect a bit of tweaking
> >> > with Ubuntu, the same tweaking that you would save using a Xubuntu or
> >> > Lubuntu (LXDE).
> >> >
> >> > If you are still going to try, let me know how does it go :)
> >> >
> >>
> >> I partially agree. I have Ubuntu 2d unity running fine on an atom based
> >> box. But yes if the machine is 10 years old some other more minimal
> >> distro might be better. There's also a pretty good chance the machine is
> >> not capable of usb booting.
> >>
> >> Lets see if we can narrow down the selection a little bit to something
> >> more appropriate and I can burn a couple for you (I have plenty of
> >> blanks that will just waste away as is).
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Alex
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