[GLLUG] Debian on my laptop

Charles Ulrich charles at idealso.com
Wed Apr 18 17:24:12 EDT 2007


On Wednesday 18 April 2007 17:12, Caleb Cushing wrote:
> ubuntu doesn't run a i386 kernel on disk, does it?
> it runs a i686 which doesn't work properly on i586's, for obvious
> reasons.

The x86 ISO for Edgy is called ubuntu-6.10-desktop-i386.iso, so I assume 
it'll run on 80386 CPUs and up. (Given enough memory, of course.) If 
the machine is more of a classic, she might want to try Xubuntu instead 
since it's far lighter on system requirements.

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Charles Ulrich
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