14 DAY TRIAL // Last year, on November 2011, we've announced that starting with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) the kernel will no longer have the i386 non-PAE kernel flavor.
Well, that changed, as the Ubuntu Technical Board decided that Ubuntu 12.04 LTS is the last release to have the i386 non-PAE kernel flavor.
PAE (Physical Address Extension) is an addition to x86 (32-bit) processors, which allows the CPUs to address more that 4GB of physical memory.
"I have removed the non-PAE kernel meta package from Quantal that would allow a non-PAE upgrade. Its likely that folks attempting an upgrade to Quantal will be left with a Precise kernel." - said Tim Gardner in the mailinglist.
In the same news, Canonical uploaded the Linux kernel 3.4.0 packages, based on the upstream kernel 3.4 RC5, for the upcoming Ubuntu 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) Alpha 1 release, on June 7th, 2012.
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