On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 11:51 PM, K Ramnarayan <ramnaraya...@gmail.com> wrote: > See article below, > > Start Article > > Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat Won't Run On Processors Below i686 > http://www.webupd8.org/2010/06/ubuntu-1010-maverick-meerkat-wont-run.html > If you're planning on using Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat on a computer with a > processor older than i686, well... you can't.
For me the initial scare was -a) i have 4 year old laptop and b) am not sure its has a i686 processor The original article did nothing to help people not worry, a response posted to the article mentioned using uname -m to find out which processor was on board . This latter suggestion would have saved a lot of grief (like me wondering what the hell was canonical was upto going the M$ way. > > To find out what processor you have use this in the command line > > -$ uname -m right now am not so worried, guess that my laptop will survive for a few more years :-) ram -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
