[ltp] Which distro for R51?

[Rich]

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On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 8:22 AM, Evgeni Golov <evgeni@golov.de> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 12:12:24PM +0000, Florian wrote:
> > I used to have Ubuntu on it but this was annoyingly slow. It seems that
> > modern distros eat up a lot of ressources and then you can watch the
> > sandclock longtime...
>
> Well, try Debian with some lightwight environment. Xfce? LXDE?
>
> > BTW: Provides Debian 8 a non-pae kernel?
>
> Yes, the -586/-686 kernel should work on non-PAE CPUs.
>

You may have more recent info on this than I, but it seems that the Banias
CPUs do actually support PAE, they just don't report it in their CPU flags,
so you should be able to gently massage any kernel you install with PAE
enabled into behaving properly.

- Rich

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<div dir=3D"ltr"><div class=3D"gmail_extra"><div class=3D"gmail_quote">On F=
ri, Mar 25, 2016 at 8:22 AM, Evgeni Golov <span dir=3D"ltr">&lt;<a href=3D"=
mailto:evgeni@golov.de" target=3D"_blank">evgeni@golov.de</a>&gt;</span> wr=
ote:<br><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex=
;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style=
:solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=3D"">On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 12:12:24P=
M +0000, Florian wrote:<br>
&gt; I used to have Ubuntu on it but this was annoyingly slow. It seems tha=
t<br>
&gt; modern distros eat up a lot of ressources and then you can watch the<b=
r>
&gt; sandclock longtime...<br>
<br>
</span>Well, try Debian with some lightwight environment. Xfce? LXDE?<br>
<span class=3D""><br>
&gt; BTW: Provides Debian 8 a non-pae kernel?<br>
<br>
</span>Yes, the -586/-686 kernel should work on non-PAE CPUs.<br>
<div class=3D""><div class=3D"h5"></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><=
div>You may have more recent info on this than I, but it seems that the Ban=
ias CPUs do actually support PAE, they just don&#39;t report it in their CP=
U flags, so you should be able to gently massage any kernel you install wit=
h PAE enabled into behaving properly.<div><br></div><div>- Rich</div></div>=
</div></div></div>

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