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parker.hugh
Hi, I have been using Linux for a couple of years now but still got loads to learn. Mostly 64bit computers. I would like to install AntiX on my very old 32bit (PAE) hp530 laptop, here is output for $ lscpu ….
$ lscpu Architecture: i686 CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit Byte Order: Little Endian CPU(s): 2 On-line CPU(s) list: 0,1 Thread(s) per core: 1 Core(s) per socket: 2 Socket(s): 1 Vendor ID: GenuineIntel CPU family: 6 Model: 14 Model name: Genuine Intel(R) CPU T2050 @ 1.60GHz Stepping: 8 CPU MHz: 830.472 CPU max MHz: 1600.0000 CPU min MHz: 800.0000 BogoMIPS: 3192.12 L1d cache: 32K L1i cache: 32K L2 cache: 2048K Flags: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx constant_tsc arch_perfmon bts cpuid aperfmperf pni monitor est tm2 xtpr pdcm pti dtherm $I see it has the ¨pae¨ flag. I wasn´t sure what this all meant so I asked my best friend google…
PAE is a processor feature that enables x86 processors to access more than 4 GB of physical memory, and is used mainly (only?) by 32-bit processors.
Would AntiX run on this processor?
christophe
Heck, yes!
No question. 🙂It should run like new again, in my opinion. I’m posting this from my 10-year-old Dell Mini-9, and it runs as well or better than it did with Windows back then.
- This reply was modified 4 years ago by christophe.
confirmed antiX frugaler, since 2019
TNTux
I’m running antiX on my old Thinkpad T60. I got a 120 GB SSD from Bestbuy for $22 US and it runs great!
$ lscpu Architecture: i686 CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit Byte Order: Little Endian CPU(s): 2 On-line CPU(s) list: 0,1 Thread(s) per core: 1 Core(s) per socket: 2 Socket(s): 1 Vendor ID: GenuineIntel CPU family: 6 Model: 14 Model name: Genuine Intel(R) CPU T2400 @ 1.83GHz Stepping: 8 CPU MHz: 1333.000 CPU max MHz: 1833.0000 CPU min MHz: 1000.0000 BogoMIPS: 3657.40 Virtualization: VT-x L1d cache: 32K L1i cache: 32K L2 cache: 2048K Flags: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx constant_tsc arch_perfmon bts aperfmperf eagerfpu pni monitor vmx est tm2 xtpr pdcm dtherm- This reply was modified 4 years ago by TNTux.
Thinkpad T60, Core2Duo T2400/1.8GHz,4GB Ram,Intel 945GM graphics
christophe
My Mini-9 has only 1 GB RAM, and thats plenty to run antiX from the hdd. And it only has a 15GB SSD! Crazy, but it’s plenty! I think you’ll love it!
Let us know how it goes. 😉
confirmed antiX frugaler, since 2019
christophe
How much RAM does it have?
Like I mentioned, this computer has 1 GB, but I also have a (nearly) 20-year old computer (with 256 MB RAM). I can’t use it for daily work, but it can get by in a pinch. (I only mention that to encourage you that, basically: if it turns on, it will run antiX.)- This reply was modified 4 years ago by christophe.
- This reply was modified 4 years ago by christophe.
confirmed antiX frugaler, since 2019
Sorry, I forgot to mention I have increased the RAM to 2GB.
My main reason for asking thus question was that I read this comment online….
“The 32 bit version uses a non-pae kernel”
Taken from here…
https://antixlinux.com/author/anticapitalista/
So I was thinking my laptop wouldn’t be able to run it.
christophe
Oh. That just means that an older, lower-spec machine than yours can use it (basically). Yours should run it like a champ! (Non-PAE kernel should work on yours without problems. My old Mini-9 is PAE as well, and runs great on the default kernel, though it is super easy to change kernels down the road if you ever want to.)
- This reply was modified 4 years ago by christophe.
- This reply was modified 4 years ago by christophe.
- This reply was modified 4 years ago by christophe.
confirmed antiX frugaler, since 2019
Thanks christophe & TNTux for your help and advice. Sounds great. I will install today and let you know the result.
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