AFAICS, yes. It's a documented thing: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PrecisePangolin/ReleaseNotes/UbuntuDesktop#System_Requirements
It's sort of reasonable if you're aiming at modern-ish kit; without PAE the 32-bit version can't access >~3.5GB RAM. The snag is that quite a lot of not-that-old and budget Celerons and things don't have PAE.
Lubuntu & Xubuntu still support non-PAE chips.
Allegedly even that is going away in 12.10, though. I do think that is rather foolish. Perhaps the metadistros will solve it; if not, it will lend impetus to the non-'Buntus & that sort of pleases me as well as saddening me.
I am increasingly favouring the POV that seems to be gaining mindshare: that there needs to be focus on One Linux Distro for headway to be made. http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2012/Aug-29.html
As it is, ISTM, there are 2 distros plus outliers: Ubuntu, Fedora and the rest. Mint is making headway but comes with prices of its own. Everyone else is marginal now, ISTM.
I would rather, I think, that there were one "market" leader + a broader diversity of outliers. I can't see how to get there from here, though.
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https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PrecisePangolin/ReleaseNotes/UbuntuDesktop#System_Requirements
It's sort of reasonable if you're aiming at modern-ish kit; without PAE the 32-bit version can't access >~3.5GB RAM. The snag is that quite a lot of not-that-old and budget Celerons and things don't have PAE.
Lubuntu & Xubuntu still support non-PAE chips.
Allegedly even that is going away in 12.10, though. I do think that is rather foolish. Perhaps the metadistros will solve it; if not, it will lend impetus to the non-'Buntus & that sort of pleases me as well as saddening me.
I am increasingly favouring the POV that seems to be gaining mindshare: that there needs to be focus on One Linux Distro for headway to be made.
http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2012/Aug-29.html
As it is, ISTM, there are 2 distros plus outliers: Ubuntu, Fedora and the rest. Mint is making headway but comes with prices of its own. Everyone else is marginal now, ISTM.
I would rather, I think, that there were one "market" leader + a broader diversity of outliers. I can't see how to get there from here, though.