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Remove old “Update” sections (#244)

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Most of these updates are quite old and thus distracting. Instead, we now have a “Recent Changes” box in the sidebar of the front page.
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_Notable Changes_: We don't use 1GiB pages anymore, since they have [compatibility problems][1GiB page problems]. The identity mapping is now done through 2MiB pages.
[1GiB page problems]: https://github.com/phil-opp/blog_os/issues/17
## Some Tests
To avoid bugs and strange errors on old CPUs we should check if the processor supports every needed feature. If not, the kernel should abort and display an error message. To handle errors easily, we create an error procedure in `boot.asm`. It prints a rudimentary `ERR: X` message, where X is an error code letter, and hangs: