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I have plenty of old laptops sitting in drawers that I can't use with cli only Linux because so many of the distos have a kernel that insists on PAE which most
by mattowen_uk 5y ago
I have plenty of old laptops sitting in drawers that I can't use with cli only Linux because so many of the distos have a kernel that insists on PAE which most of them don't have. As such I leave them running XP which is a shame as they'd be perfect as little Linux boxes for tinkering.
- azalemeth 5y agoQ4OS (https://q4os.org/ https://q4os.org/) is a Debian based linux designed explicitly for this use case -- with a prominent 32 bit version.
- mattowen_uk 5y agoBrilliant, I'll check it out. Cheers!
- azalemeth 5y agoIf it helps, v3.8 is guaranteed to be okay without PAE (go with trinity, based on KDE 3.5 as a DM, rather than plasma) -- from their release notes: >Q4OS Centaurus is based on Debian Buster 10 and Plasma 5.14, optionally Trinity 14.0.6, desktop environment, and it's available for 64bit and 32bit/i686pae computers, as well as for older i386 systems without PAE extension. We are working hard to bring it for ARM devices too.