Peppermint Six goes live a day early

[Mark Greaves (PCNetSpec)]

I'm not even sure you *could* upgrade to Peppermint 6 .. if we put you on Peppermint 3 it was for one of two reasons

a) system specs were too low for Peppermint 6
or
b) your CPU doesn't support PAE, which is required for Peppermint 4 onwards.

Easy way to find out if it was (b), what's the output from:

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cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep flags

[Melissa]

I'm not even sure you *could* upgrade to Peppermint 6 .. if we put you on Peppermint 3 it was for one of two reasons

a) system specs were too low for Peppermint 6
or
b) your CPU doesn't support PAE, which is required for Peppermint 4 onwards.

Peppermint 6 wasn't out when we put it on this old xp laptop Mark- that was about 2 years ago.

[Melissa]

[email protected] ~ $ cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep flags
flags      : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt rdtscp lm 3dnowext 3dnow up extd_apicid pni cx16 lahf_lm extapic cr8_legacy
[email protected] ~ $

[Mark Greaves (PCNetSpec)]

OK, it'll support Peppermint 6 .. maybe we decided not to because of RAM limitations (?), what's the output from:

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free -m

?

[Melissa]

[email protected] ~ $ free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:           685        628         56          0         14        170
-/+ buffers/cache:        444        240
Swap:          701         79        622
[email protected] ~ $


It wasn't due to RAM Mark- only Peppermint 3 was out when we installed it onto this laptop.

[Mark Greaves (PCNetSpec)]

I still wouldn't move to Peppermint 6 until you get some more RAM

[Melissa]

I still wouldn't move to Peppermint 6 until you get some more RAM

Yeah I am happy with P3 - I don't see any reason to change unless it becomes "outdated."