[HN Gopher] PsychOS Linux - 32-bit distro for older computers ___________________________________________________________________ PsychOS Linux - 32-bit distro for older computers Author : indigodaddy Score : 37 points Date : 2022-10-30 20:31 UTC (2 hours ago) (HTM) web link (psychoslinux.gitlab.io) (TXT) w3m dump (psychoslinux.gitlab.io) | bombcar wrote: | There's some argument for using a 32-bit distro on systems with | 4GB of RAM or less - https://www.sevarg.net/2021/12/18/raspberry- | pi-32-bit-vs-64-... | | (It's not likely worth it for most cases, but in theory half-size | pointers can help.) | bombcar wrote: | Gentoo still builds i486 versions: | https://www.gentoo.org/downloads/ | | Get going! By the time X finishes compiling we'll probably be at | 128 bit. | xbar wrote: | Black Ray-Bans, drop top Porsche, and a Maxell Metal Cassette | playing PsychOS trailer music. | | It's a good Sunday. | 29athrowaway wrote: | Try Damn Small Linux | LAC-Tech wrote: | Abandoned, but one of the guys behind it went on to make Tiny | Core linux. | | I have very fond memories of being a broke student with crappy | computers, booting stuff like DSL, slitaz and puppy. | mike_hock wrote: | That's been abandoned, right? | | The last "News Milestone" is May 3, 2004, and I can't find any | other timestamps or dates on the website. | | It'd be OK for a project like that to have old, frozen software | versions as long as it receives security updates, but the | website makes it damn near impossible to assess whether any | maintenance is taking place at all. | 29athrowaway wrote: | I see. It shines on old hardware. | anthk wrote: | Delicate Linux would be preferable. Or better, just plain | NetBSD. | Elv13 wrote: | To be fair, "old hardware" is kind of frozen in time by | definition. DSL is what it is. If you want to play with | hardware with 32mb of ram, it does what it does. It isn't | really an OS you want to "use" or "expand upon". I would not | suggest to connect it to the Internet or expect any kind of | updates, security or otherwise. | | The main case for it at this point is retro computing. Most | retro computing enthusiasts run era correct OS (MacOS7-9, Mac | OS X, Win9x, DOS, AIX/IRIX/SunOS/HPUX, BeOS, Amiga 3x, etc). | Those are not getting security updates either. | | I put it in the same category as Haiku, Visopsys, AROS and | ReactOS, fun toy for older computers. Not very relevant as | day-to-day. I still have and expand a collection of live CDs | for the P3/PR era laptop. Again, those don't get security | updates, but are fun to explore. | | Personally, I am more into Linux window managers (and | AwesomeWM maintainer) to recreate the interesting concepts | from those OS rather than rice 90s silicon. However I really | enjoyed using a Pentium1 laptop full time for a few months in | university in the late 00's just to prove a point. But for | that I compiled my own OS rather than use a distro. If you | want to get the most out of these machine, that's the way. | jacob019 wrote: | I like bunsenlabs on old hardware. It's Debian based with | openbox, some bits from xfce, and some custom config utilities. | It's a continuation of Crunchbang Linux which was discontinued. | Openbox is very nice and light, but the default configuration on | Debian is not really usable. Xfce or Mate on Debian can be good | choices as well. | BMc2020 wrote: | Raspbian on an old dell laptop. Chrome with a reload page | extension updates the weather every hour. | yjftsjthsd-h wrote: | > Raspbian on an old dell laptop. | | ? Raspbian is for ARM, what are you talking about? | jcelerier wrote: | there's an x86 version specially for old computers: | https://www.raspberrypi.com/software/raspberry-pi-desktop/ | yjftsjthsd-h wrote: | Well, you learn something every day! That's fascinating; | I'll have to take a look. Thanks:) | prosaic-hacker wrote: | I like small retro hw supporting distros. Puppy Fossa is running | on several of my machines. | | I don't like the background on web page enough that I got off of | it before downloading the distro. Please give me an option to | visually assaulted. | mike_hock wrote: | _Visually_ assaulted? That shit is still "transferring data" | and pegging a core at 100%. | xenonite wrote: | Ironically, the background animation stutters even on fast | hardware. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-10-30 23:00 UTC)