Comment 141 for bug 930447

As a 64-bit ubuntu user, I was unaware of this issue until I tired to test lubuntu on my 2 older laptops: Dell 600m, Fujitsu P-Lifebook. I downloaded the Alternate 386 iso file last night and discovered to my great surprise that this version also requires the pae capability to either perform an install or a disk check. For a version "designed for low RAM systems" with less than 700MB, it is incredible that it also fell into the pae trap. At this point, claims that lubuntu is "non-pae" seem somewhat hollow at best.

For those of us on the outside, the decision to drop support for non-pae systems for 12.10 and beyond seems cavalier in a way that I never detected before in ubuntu development, over a period of 7 years.