(the system has been running for 3-4 days and I have ***lots*** of firefox tabs open). My current RAM utilization is 2,5 GB out of 3 GB with some 200MB in swap.
#Xubuntu 16.04 intel gma 950 install#
However, I have enabled amd64 as a secondary multilib architecture and plan to install 64-bit kernel (to keep a mixed length system).
#Xubuntu 16.04 intel gma 950 upgrade#
I'm going to upgrade to Ubuntu 14.04, but if I installed the system anew, then I would seriously consider going 64-bit.
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I have installed my system 2 years ago and decided then to install 32-bit. Such systems were releases as late as 2011.ĭropping support for these systems would be very ironic as quite a big proportion of them was shipping with Linux. They often do not support 32-bit even if the processor supports PAE (or even if it supports 64-bit since BIOS (?) + chipset support is required): What is more, many netbooks and similar systems are running Intel Atom processors. There are many such projects out there, just to name a few: Linux Mint will very likely follow suit, probably even if they would not like it (for example because they do not build most packages themselves).Īdditionally, dropping 32-bit will jeopardize projects such as "get old computers that nobody wants to use any longer, put Linux on them and give out to those in need". Ubuntu is one of the first choices for a Linux distro for those unexperienced with computers (the others popular ones being Linux Mint and OpenSUSE AFAIK). These people likely do not read tech news and so they won't participate in this survey. It would be really ruthless to drop support for them. There are many people out there (for example in third world countries or even the developed ones) that simply cannot afford new hardware. I hope the proposal will go ahead and I would suggest pointing people to Debian. I'm running Ubuntu with pleasure on 64-bit systems, but for anything 32-bit, Debian seems better. I suggest killing the 32-bit version as soon as possible and redirect users to Debian Stable for such systems instead. It was a very frustrating experience to try multiple installers (thinking they may be corrupt initially) and finding out in the end that Ubuntu was already not supporting these systems. To conclude: I already didn't consider the 32-bit version of Ubuntu anymore.
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These notebooks are running fine now with Debian Wheezy (which uses the i386 kernel, because their i686 requires PAE as well). Only then I received the error that my CPU lacked PAE support and found that all included kernels require this. That the installer itself did work made no sense and I had to discover the reason behind this error manually by trying to install the kernel package manually through one of the other virtual terminals available during the installation. It turned out that due to a lack of PAE support on the CPU, it couldn't find a compatible kernel to install.
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I tried to install 13.10 or 14.04 on these notebooks and the installer kept giving me the strangest errors at the end of the installation.