Distro that does not require PAE

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 03:43:15PM +0300, geoffrey mendelson wrote:
> Are there any CURRENT Linux distros that do not require PAE? Ubuntu
> started requiring it about 1 year ago, so now all Ubuntu and it's
> children will not work on older computers without it.
> 
> PAE was left of most of the mobile pentium chips including a few
> dual core ones. So this means that what are IMHO perfectly good
> Linux laptops are out of luck.

Debian has two i386 kernels: "486" and "686-pae". Use the former.

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