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SCALE 8x: Ubuntu kernel development process

SCALE 8x: Ubuntu kernel development process

Posted Mar 4, 2010 14:42 UTC (Thu) by nye (guest, #51576)
In reply to: SCALE 8x: Ubuntu kernel development process by viiru
Parent article: SCALE 8x: Ubuntu kernel development process

Yeah, that does sound suspect. Although I'm not sure I'd trust that page to be properly maintained. Talking about Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic):

"However, Debian GNU/Linux jaunty will not run on 386 or earlier processors."

Hmm...


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SCALE 8x: Ubuntu kernel development process

Posted Mar 4, 2010 16:54 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

And Ubuntu *will* run on 386s? Interesting, 'cos G++ compiles atomic instructions into C++ programs which are only valid on 486 and above. These aren't in some shared library, they're *compiled into the programs themselves* thus in effect are part of the ABI. Does Ubuntu have its own C++ ABI? I doubt it.

SCALE 8x: Ubuntu kernel development process

Posted Mar 4, 2010 17:17 UTC (Thu) by nye (guest, #51576) [Link]

Not sure if you're joking or not, but obviously they've done a search and replace from a Debian document at some point for Jaunty, and then copy/pasted the same thing into the Karmic page.

SCALE 8x: Ubuntu kernel development process

Posted Mar 5, 2010 0:16 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

That's what I thought: last I knew, Ubuntu required i686, but, hey, maybe
they just increased their hardware support in the old-machine direction
vastly. (Very unlikely, I know!)

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