32 bit Computer Support

[Mattpg1]

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

Thanks

[Germ]

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

[benmc]

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:

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$ lscpu

[Mattpg1]

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

[morgano]

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.

[benmc]

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:

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$ 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

[Mattpg1]

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

[Mattpg1]

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[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

[benmc]

sse sse2

should be good to go

cheers

[Mattpg1]

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

[benmc]

hi,

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

[Mattpg1]

Thanks