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There's a menu entry for that...

We can't say much without the model info, as you might guess. Mine, for instance, is HP OfficeJet Pro 8600 Plus

kmathern wrote:

Jerry3904 wrote:What would a Windows user do? I did a quick search and didn't find anything easy.

I haven't used it but this looks like it might show it: http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/cpu-z.html

I will give that a test on my old laptop with XP and in my virtual W2K.

What would a Windows user do? I did a quick search and didn't find anything easy.

If you run inxi -Fx it will show a flags line in the CPU section, if it doesn't list a pae flag you'll need the non-PAE version.

Great--I will add that to the web page for users already running Linux.

I am unsure whether to buy a PAE or non-PAE version.

Here is what we say about that on the website: http://www.mepiscommunity.org/node/67

If still unsure, post back the specs on those machines. (My uninformed guess would be non-PAE)

Curious. richard@mx14:/WIN/Dropbox $ cat /etc/lsb-release DISTRIB_ID=MX DISTRIB_RELEASE=MX-14 DISTRIB_CODENAME=Symbiosis DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="MX-14" richard@mx14:/WIN/Dropbox $ I don't know where that file comes from, but we are officially a special version of antiX, which is the distro o...

Didn't even see that, sorry

MX-14 is not a distro, so will not show up if you use that search box. It will if you use the Google search box just below it.

That thread died a month ago..