Comment 270 for bug 930447

i read "experimental" in those links - and i think there are people who dislike installing their operating system in a re-packaged way from a community based, untrusted source. nothing against you, nio, you appear trustworthy - but i`m one of those.

if all the community efforts had been put into the kernel fix instead of fake pae or building alternative installation methods , then we would not sit here and discuss. it may be a logical step, that these workaround exist, but it`s always better to adress the root cause instead of tempering with a symptom.

it was good work to provide those workarounds, but it would be even better work to integrate the kernel fix from upstream now and help bugging the ubuntu devs to do so.

while writing this, i bet the kernel based fix had probably alrady being done if the community workarounds never existed, because while they existed the ubuntu devs could lean back and tell the user: Pentium M? naah, that`s old, watch out for fake-pae and alternative installer disks as a workaround. that probably HELPED a LOT of users but it did not help fixing the root cause, because many users never needed to complain because of that. linux people like tinkering...oh yes.