06-06-2017, 09:14 PM
Glad I found this post, because I have a question that might be relevant.
So I installed LL onto a really old laptop that does not have a cpu with PAE. By searching on the web I quickly found out first how to owercome the installation barrier, and second I start ponder what the heck is PPA anyway. So reading some online text (wikipedia it was I think) I learned that PPA is just a way for a 32 bit CPU to owercome the maximum memory limitation. That is how I understood it and I might as well be wrong.
So then to the thing I cannot wrap my head around: What is the point of 64 bit OS if a CPU with PAE support is capable to access memory above 4GB anyway?
So I installed LL onto a really old laptop that does not have a cpu with PAE. By searching on the web I quickly found out first how to owercome the installation barrier, and second I start ponder what the heck is PPA anyway. So reading some online text (wikipedia it was I think) I learned that PPA is just a way for a 32 bit CPU to owercome the maximum memory limitation. That is how I understood it and I might as well be wrong.
So then to the thing I cannot wrap my head around: What is the point of 64 bit OS if a CPU with PAE support is capable to access memory above 4GB anyway?
I won't let an old, but fully functional computer die just because some company tell me that they won't make no more security updates to their OS. Thanks Linux 