LeFantome @ LeFantome @programming.dev Posts 0Comments 1,701Joined 2 yr. ago
Wow. That is just unbelievably sketch.
Hardware issue?
I cannot speak for “all distros” but I know from experience that this statement is not true. There are also numerous “retro” YouTube channels where you can watch people burn DVDs to install Linux on older hardware. I have seen at least one of those in the past month.
Finally, the ISO file format is the native format of optical media like DVD. When you use an ISO to create a USB stick, you are starting with a DVD image (typically). If it is a valid ISO, you can burn it to a DVD and go.
In terms of “slow”, is it possible that expectations have simply changed and we have forgotten how slow things were back in the day. DVD throughput that is working fine is going to feel slow to us today. Just like we are no longer super impressed that we can store 4.7 GB on a disc.
MX is just Debian under the hood.
https://itslinuxfoss.com/install-apache-web-server-debian-12-linux/
To be clear, you still still be able to run 32 bit binaries on a 64 bit kernel. So, there will be no more kernel support for Pentium (in 5 years or more) but you will still run i686 userland code. I do not see this changing for a very long time.
They run Windows CE and Linux though they also support QNX.
Specific Vortex86 detection was added in Linux 5.15 I think
There were 486 compatible SoC chips being released as late as 2010.
I think you can still buy them: https://www.vortex86.com/
Yes, and this means all the “light weight”, “legacy hardware” distros require at least a Pentium Pro.
The only binary distro I know that still runs on Pentium is Adelie.
There is no GNOME 5. They are up to GNOME 48 now.
Strong recommendation of EndeavourOS over Manjaro.
That was it for me. I was actually a KDE user way back in the KDE 2 and 3 days. I found KDE 4 unusable. KDE 5 never won me over. But I have been using Plasma 6 on Wayland and am perfectly happy with it.
You really need to be on Plasma 6 if you use Wayland.
You are not wrong.
However, at this moment in history, there is another consideration.
Today, Cinnamon means X11 and KDE means Wayland. Xorg is becoming a second class citizen in KDE. Cinnamon is not there yet on Wayland.
In two years, you can be back to using either one as you prefer (on Wayland).
My preferred DE is XFCE. However, over the past few months, I have moved most of my work to a new distro and made the jump to Wayland. Both of these have landed me on KDE.
KDE has by far the most complete, and therefore painless, Wayland support.
KDE has been great to use honestly. I mostly do not think about it which is what I want in a DE these days. The configurations I need are there when I need them and not in the way when I don’t. KDE uses more memory than XFCE but not nearly as much as Firefox or Chrome.
I dislike modern GNOME but KDE has been great and, at this point, I feel like it is the best option on Wayland.
Did you really stick it out all the way from Win2K to Windows 7?
There were still new 486 compatible chips being released up until about 2010.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vortex86
They released a 486sx (no FPU) in 2007.
NetBSD does not support 386 anymore either and I think NetBSD requires an FPU. With its x87 emulator, it may be that Linux has been more hardware friendly in this case.
Here is a Linux for 486 that runs in 8 MB (current kernel, same userland as Alpine Linux): https://github.com/marmolak/gray486linux/commits/master/
There will still be LTS kernels supporting 486 in Linux until 2030 or later. The oldest kernel currently still getting updates at kernel.org is a version from 2019.
Outside the official kernel project, distros like Ubuntu and RHEL offer 10 years of support. So, they will be dropping security updates for these kernels for even longer.
If you make the 1st Amendment illegal, the rest of the Constitution cannot be far behind.
Clearly not a bug. “Should” is a clear feature request.
I am not saying they should not do it. Maybe they have. But closing the “bug” was the right thing to do.
Bugs and feature requests need to be prioritized and processed quite differently.
Valkey is already better