[Openchrome-users] Non PAE system

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Hello Francois,

yes, a lot of distributions start to cancel 32bit support or require  
HW PAE. Gentoo does not. Gentoo still runs on i486 computers if you  
need.
It requires some initial work to get it to know, though.

The results is: You'll learn lots how a system works and is built :) ,  
absolutely individual system, performant system (lightweight to your  
needs, compiled for your specific CPU if you want), furthermore the  
freedom of choice - e.g. to run things without SystemD ;) - and a  
rolling release system.
The downside is: Requires time to get into it and later some time for  
compiling; though you can also cross-compile or in case of x86  
chroot-pseudo-cross-compile.

I don't know about other distributions and how far they still support  
older HW cause I lack the time to try them. A second alternative might  
be some BSD system, they usually also support older HW well. I just  
saw NetBSD running on some ancient and somewhat exotic  machine a few  
weeks ago on a public Linux conference. I guess openchrome might also  
compile and work on BSD? I mean, the whole userland X system is  
ported, right?

Greetings
Haldor