Subj : Linux for P4
To   : ROB MCCART
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Thu Nov 15 2018 06:00 pm

 Re: Linux for P4
 By: ROB MCCART to ALL on Wed Nov 14 2018 02:18 am

RM> I'm wondering if there is a very light Linux version that will still
RM> run on an old P4 machine. (Intel 2.66 Ghz with 512 meg Ram).

I like Lubuntu. It's Ubuntu's core OS with LXDE, a lightweight window manager.
It also has a collection of smaller, lightweight apps.

I run it on a 1.7 GHZ Pentium 4 laptop, and it runs nicely. It idles in 200
megs of RAM.

RM> I've heard that most newer Linux versions won't work due to problems
RM> caused by the CPUID checking run (?)

If you're talking about the CPU supporting PAE but not reporting it, Many Linux
installers support a FORCEPAE command line option. I just installed Lubuntu
18.04 on my Thinkpad T42, which supports PAE but doesn't report it.

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