Distro that does not require PAE

Distro that does not require PAE

Gilboa Davara gilboad at gmail.com
Tue Oct 15 17:37:46 IDT 2013


On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 2:43 PM, geoffrey mendelson
<geoffreymendelson at gmail.com> 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.
>
> Any information appreciated.
>
> Geoff.

I've got Fedora 19 running on a non-PAE Pentium M laptop.

- Gilboa



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