MX Linux Forum

If your CPU is able to run PAE then maybe is a matter of changing a setting in BIOS. . Thanks Adrian . I had assumed - from the fact that it was possible to use the "force-pae" command to run a Live session of Mint 17 - that this proved the Intel Pentium M CPU was/is able to run PAE if to...

I am thinking of resurrecting an old laptop, and wonder if I can install MX18.x on it. The laptop is a Dell Inspiron 8600. It is a 32-bit system, has 2GB of RAM (apparently the maximum possible), an Intel Pentium M processor 1500MHz, and a modest 60GB hard drive. It still has the OEM Windows XP inst...

My main (Samsung, Intel Core i5 CPU) laptop is 64-bit. But I run MX-16 32-bit on a couple of older Dell laptops, one of which needs the non-pae version. I notice that developers of many distros are phasing out 32-bit; I understand why (up to a point!). But as one of the benign effects, and plus poin...

I'm belatedly catching up with some forum posts. Still a newcomer to MX and using MX-16. But I'd pick up and agree with RichB's comment on the MX-17 review: Very thorough and positive. I wish he had mentioned the manual where a beginner can learn about the concepts that he indicated made MX somewhat...