Edit: it looks like it’s 64-bit compatible finally!

Hi!

I found a cheap 32-bit notebook with a functioning battery. I’d like to buy it, and install Linux on it, without installing X or Wayland, to use it headless GUI-less. I need something very portable just to take with me to take notes during meetings.

My intention was to use Debian but… they do not support 32-bit architecture anymore. I could install Debian 12, but do you know any interesting alternative that still support and will support it in the future?

  • higgsboson@piefed.socialEnglish
    2·
    15 days ago

    It is weird to see it be a somewhat practical recommendation. I mained Gentoo pre-0.1 days back when the alpha was revolutionary and the idea of including the stage 3 binaries in the distro was controversial. Wars raged in the forums over which USE flags worked best.

    But then compute got so much cheaper I stopped caring and I mostly used corporate distros for work.

    I recently installed LMDE on an ancient 1.83Ghz celeron netbook, but it runs like dogshit. Maybe I ought to dust off my USE flag game and see if I can squeeze more life out of it. I’m sure just using something other than cinnamon would work as well, but what fun would that be?

    • steeznson@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      3 days ago

      I believe there is also a flag for portage -g I think that will download the binary for any package.

      I suppose the argument for fun would be from people who enjoy tweaking USE flags and other things but only on specific packages or have a very low-end PC which cannot compile much.

      You could have a kernel-bin installed then spend endless amounts of time tinkering replacing glib with musl (which seems popular on IRC lol).