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Hello. How far into the future are you planning on new versions of Mageia being installable on 32 bit computers?

Thanks

Mageia 10 will have a i686 release. That's all I know of that is planned right now.

Mattpg1 wrote:Hello. How far into the future are you planning on new versions of Mageia being installable on 32 bit computers?

was this a general or specific query.

do you have an older 32bit cpu system that needs support, or atom cpu hardware that requires a 32bit UEFI ?

if so, can you report:

Code: Select all: $ lscpu

Hello. I have an old Dell Inspiron B130 32bit that I'm seeking the longest supported linux distro's for.

I think Mageia will be among the distros that keep 32 bit for longest time.
I have not tested much, but i have tested a couple others intended for a lower end computers, but anyway MAgeia turned out to be faster - maybe better hardware support, i did not investigate.

I suggest you try Mageia.
Regardless of distro, put in max possible RAM, and maybe fastest available disk or some flash drive solution.
And choose a light desktop. Mageia have several: mate, xfce, lxde, lxqt that you can try and switch between on the same system install

Personally I use lxde on my old Tihkpad T43.

Mattpg1 wrote:Hello. I have an old Dell Inspiron B130 32bit that I'm seeking the longest supported linux distro's for.

cool.

can you return the output of:

Code: Select all: $ lscpu

this will give the cpu internal instruction set, particularly the SSE support.
I has a 32bit AMD system that is no longer supported because of its instruction set, so Mga9 is the last version of Mageia for it

regards

Do you still want me to & lscpu since it's working?

Code: Select all: [matthew@localhost ~]$ lscpu Architecture: i686 CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit Address sizes: 32 bits physical, 32 bits virtual Byte Order: Little Endian CPU(s): 1 On-line CPU(s) list: 0 Vendor ID: GenuineIntel Model name: Intel(R) Celeron(R) M processor 1.60GHz CPU family: 6 Model: 13 Thread(s) per core: 1 Core(s) per socket: 1 Socket(s): 1 Stepping: 8 BogoMIPS: 3193.15 Flags: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss tm pbe nx bts cpuid Vulnerabilities: Gather data sampling: Not affected Indirect target selection: Not affected Itlb multihit: KVM: Mitigation: VMX unsupported L1tf: Vulnerable Mds: Vulnerable: Clear CPU buffers attempted, no microcode; SMT disabled Meltdown: Vulnerable Mmio stale data: Unknown: No mitigations Reg file data sampling: Not affected Retbleed: Not affected Spec rstack overflow: Not affected Spec store bypass: Vulnerable Spectre v1: Mitigation; usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization Spectre v2: Mitigation; Retpolines; STIBP disabled; RSB filling; PBRSB-eIBRS Not affected; BHI Not affected Srbds: Not affected Tsa: Not affected Tsx async abort: Not affected Vmscape: Not affected [matthew@localhost ~]$

Added code tags. ~Germ

Mattpg1 wrote:sse sse2

should be good to go

cheers

Hello. When I go into the Software Management and expand the Graphical Desktop menu I see a number of desktops but not the LXDE or LXQt that I'm looking for.

When I look in "Other" I see some packages with lxde or lxqt in their name but it seems to want to install a bunch of smaller desktops at the same time.

Could someone please tell me the proper way to install just LXDE or LXQt?

Thanks

hi,

in the"find" window type task-lxde or task-lxqt:

Thanks

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