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A lot of different entities put work into a Linux distribution. In OP's case, it's probably Debian that's at fault, or rather, it's Debian who could fix the iss
by npteljes 4y ago
A lot of different entities put work into a Linux distribution. In OP's case, it's probably Debian that's at fault, or rather, it's Debian who could fix the issue. The CPU doesn't support every distro explicitly, just Ubuntu and RHEL. OP is using Debian. Therefore it's either Debian's, or OP's problem.
In your case, it sounds like RHEL either had a regression, or decided not to support the architecture anymore. The laptop's release year is 2007, which is not too long ago, so I'd expect Linux to work on the machine. If this is a single incident, it might be an issue with the kernel, the distro, the particular media it's written on, or the machine itself.