Hi, what recomend the distribution for old laptop on 32 bit cpu?

No current distribution will work with a 32-bit cpu

Tribblix m20 was the last Tribblix release to do so, but that hasn't seen any updates for about 5 years

Check Tribblix, thx. What about ild version of OpenIndiana? 2017 release?

Tribblix m20 was 2017, so it would have to be then or you might have to go back a year or two earlier.

Other UNIX OSes are also removing support for the 686.

and then there's me, still running a 16bit unix just for fun...

:)

owo

somebody uses zx80 with an old TV, just for fun

Woodstock, tried FUZIX, i was ported and working on RP2040 with 256KB. LAN working and with Ping, much buggy.

it was ported. not by me, I just followed instructions. need to hardcode Ip address..

OpenBSD still supports 32-bit CPUs

ptribble: try m20.0 in VirtualBox, after install do 'zap refresh' & 'zap update-overlay -a' and zap can't download some pkgs frmo repo - base iso, unzip and more. Repo with pkgs for m20.0 is dead?

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There is also this bit - we currently do build 32bit UEFI loader for systems starting up in 32-bit UEFI firmware, but are capable of switching to 64-bit mode. I'd actually also drop that support at some point in time....

Wait… why did 32-bit UEFI even exist?

Weren’t most CPU’s x86_64 when it got created?

I guess they technically still started in whatever legacy mode and made there way up to full 64-but mode very early in boot 🤔

the first release of UEFI by Intel was in 2004, when Intel was mostly still selling 32-bit CPUs and had just announced it's first 64-bit x86 systems

i forget when intel's going to stop supporting the legacy bios boot (if not already).. i do wonder if after that what mode CPUs will be in after power on..

e.g. do they still pretend they're an 8086 until you jump through all the hoops and such

straight to 64-bit after reset. intel.com/content/www/us/en/develop…future-simplified-architecture.html