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Non technical explanation needed, please.
Post by kemperhills » Sun May 07, 2017 5:07 pm
Split this post off from the announcement thread Linux Mint 13 has reached end of life, because help requests should not be posted in announcements threads.
xenopeek wrote: Linux Mint 13 «Maya» has reached end of life at the end of April 2017. This release was based on Ubuntu 12.04 and was our first release with Cinnamon!
Your programs will continue to work but no more updates or security fixes will be made available for them. Users of Linux Mint 13 are therefor recommended to migrate to Linux Mint 18.1 (which will be supported until April 2021) or Linux Mint 17.3 (supported until April 2019) soon. For all available supported releases and an overview of support periods see https://linuxmint.com/download_all.php.
Upgrade instructions: To upgrade to a newer release of Linux Mint, backup your important personal files and do a fresh installation. You can not upgrade in place (without reinstalling) as you can do with newer releases of Linux Mint. You may refer to the How to upgrade to a newer release tutorial or ask for support from others on the Installation & Boot forum. If you have a dual boot installation (Linux Mint alongside another operating system) I recommend you ask for support on the forum if you are unsure of the steps.
If you have an older computer that can only run 32-bit software and it doesn’t officially support PAE—like a computer with an Intel Pentium M processor—the chance is good you can use Linux Mint 17.x and 18.x anyway (Linux Mint 13 didn’t require a processor capable of PAE; Linux Mint 17 and newer do). Instructions for this from the release notes: «To boot Linux Mint on CPU which do not officially support PAE please use the ‘Start Linux Mint with PAE forced’ option from the boot menu.» If it doesn’t work on your computer you can instead use LMDE 2 as that works with any 32-bit processor regardless of whether it is PAE capable.
Linux Mint 17.x and 18.x do require more free disk space for the installation (9 GB instead of 5 GB for Linux Mint 13) but otherwise the system requirements are comparable. The MATE edition and certainly the Xfce edition would be an option for older computers.
If you’re concerned MATE or Xfce would still be too heavy for your computer you can also switch to LXDE. Just install the packages lxde and lxde-common . I recommend you do that with the following command to also get the additionally recommended LXDE packages installed:
apt install —install-recommends lxde lxde-common
Then logout and on the login screen select to login to a LXDE session (use the gearwheel icon in the top right of the login box).
Instructions for this from the release notes: «To boot Linux Mint on CPU which do not officially support PAE please use the ‘Start Linux Mint with PAE forced’ option from the boot menu.» If it doesn’t work on your computer you can instead use LMDE 2 as that works with any 32-bit processor regardless of whether it is PAE capable.
If you’re concerned MATE or Xfce would still be too heavy for your computer you can also switch to LXDE. Just install the packages lxde and lxde-common . I recommend you do that with the following command to also get the additionally recommended LXDE packages installed:
apt install —install-recommends lxde lxde-common
Since I am new to Linux this is all Greek to me. I am trying to learn Linux so I can get rid of Windows. So could someone explain this to me, or link me to some posts or articles that would explain this for me. I have several computer with Intel Legacy boards that I will be installing Linux on, if I can learn the OS, and if I run into these problems would like to know how to solve them. Thanks.
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How To Activate «PAE FORCED» After Installation?
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How To Activate «PAE FORCED» After Installation?
Post by dmariehc » Thu Aug 27, 2015 6:54 pm
I now see, after having installed Mint 17.2 on an older laptop with Atom processor, that I should have typed—or selected—«Start Linux Mint with PAE forced».
How do I now correct this oversight? Can I do it without having to re-install the OS?
Thanks for your help; hoping that this is the reason for lack of ‘zip’.
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Re: How To Activate «PAE FORCED» After Installation?
Post by Mute Ant » Thu Aug 27, 2015 10:06 pm
sudo dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc. you get to modify the Linux command line argument in the first dialogue and add forcepae. Use TAB and ENTER to move through the questions, not the mouse. The command will do an update-grub on its own. Then you have to reboot to let the argument take effect.
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