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Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat Won't Run On Processors Below i686

Posted by hotice on · 6 comments
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If you're planning on using Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat on a computer with a processor older than i686, well... you can't. [...]

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Comments (6)

Steven_Rosenber ·
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 ·
Mandriva, maybe. In its earlier life, Mandrake was Red Hat re-done for Pentium and higher.
herzeleid ·
What's with the misleading title? The fact is, ubuntu 10.10 will *only* run on 686 - or better.
Sander_Marechal ·
@herzeleid: My guess is that LXer ate an < in the title.
JaseP ·
I smell yet another Ubuntu fork... 3buntu anyone?!?!
Steven_Rosenber ·
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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