I’ve got an older machine that I’d like to give a second life. I’ve always been an Ubuntu fan in the past, but checking their site for a lightweight distri it looks like they’ve gone all 64 bit. Is that right? Can I still get a recent version for a 32-bit processor?

  • Shareni
    14·
    16 days ago

    Check out Antix, Debian based, and it’s primarily made for older devices and has a 32bit ISO

    • Refurbished Refurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org
      8·
      16 days ago

      AntiX runs great on my late 90s Celeron rig with a 1.2GHz single core socket 370 Celeron with 256MB RAM.

      Runs waaaaaay better than Windows XP and slightly slower than Windows 98 SE.

    • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
      6·
      16 days ago

      I second this suggestion. I have an old touchscreen PC from about 2001 with a Via Eden CPU, which is an incredibly feeble low-power processor that lacks some instructions that were common even in 32-bit days, and Antix was the only reasonably modern distro I could get to run on it.