Comment 271 for bug 930447

There were *very* strong signals that the board, deciding about the main-stream ubuntu edition, had decided to stop supporting non-pae CPUs including Pentium M amd Celeron M, and that the decision was not going to be changed.

You think that fake-PAE has been counter-productive, that it has done more harm than good. Maybe you are right, maybe not. I still think it was right to offer it as a solution to users, who would otherwise not use these computers with modern Ubuntu based versions (because I thought that the decision was not going to be changed). However, I'm hoping it will change now, that there will be Trusty kernels, that can be booted and upgraded with Pentium M amd Celeron M.

I can understand that you and many other people do not trust minor distros or the organisations behind them or community re-spins. But who can we trust? I think the [big] companies are at least as likely to create and hide back-doors for themselves or some national intelligence service organisation.