Put the fun back into computing. Use Linux, BSD. 1 3. G. H. Roberson on 2. GMT from United StatesYeah, Linux is ideal for older hardware. Linux OSes but offer a low resource desktop Windows still supports 3. I little premature, IMO. PAE by edcoolio on 2. GMT from United StatesI use 3. I hate throwing out perfectly working older equipment. While Im on the subject, Id like to give extra credit to a couple of my favorite 3. PAE capabilities that are my favorite. Bodhi and Anti. X. Welcome to this years 41st issue of DistroWatch Weekly Software developers are required to find a balance between taking advantage of modern technology to offer new. Lyberty. coms weeklymonthly splash page. Yes, a splash page is old fashioned, but its been a tradition here since 1999. Download the free trial version below to get started. Doubleclick the downloaded file to install the software. Home automation and home control HA Software source code and links mostly for the home automation devices like Insteon PowerLinc V2, CM11A, CM17 Firecracker. I know there are others, but those two are by far my favorite. I have high hopes for Anti. X 1. 7. Anyways, keep up the 3. RE 3. 2 bit being dropped by distros by Linux guy on 2. GMT from United Statesi have not owned a 3. PC in a long time 1. PCs or Laptops, you might be able to find some new old stock on newegg of some 3. CPU, but since 3. Linux developers are supporting which is what hardware is most popular on the store shelves. Usage Statistics for communitygaze. Summary Period September 2016 Search String Generated 07Oct2017 0208 PDT. Hot spots Hot spots Hot spots Hot spots. Knoppix_7.2_640x480.png/600px-Knoppix_7.2_640x480.png' alt='Knoppix Startup Ogg Sound Effects' title='Knoppix Startup Ogg Sound Effects' />Dan on 2. GMT from Australiatheres also the year 2. Denethor on 2. 01. GMT from Serbia3 Did you even read the opinion article I also have only 6. I use exclusively 3. RAM consumption. Many thanks to Nicolae Crefelean for bringing up this serious issue. I thought I was the only one who cared about distros dropping 3. Knoppix Startup Ogg Sound Effects' title='Knoppix Startup Ogg Sound Effects' />On the bright side, I strongly believe that at least debian will support 3. GMT from United Statesas someone who maintains a fully automated script to produce a custom 3. MADE into a good 3. Too soon to ditch 3. Steve B. on 2. 01. GMT from United StatesThere are too many older machines that benefit from a 3. OS still operating. These are perfectly good machines to give to a youngster just learning about Linux. Ive given 3 to family members 1. They have little monetary value to me, but they were greatly appreciated by the recipients. They get to play, explore, learn, and experiment, without fear of damaging Mom and Dads computer or the one that they use to do their homework on. If it is broken or just dies, very little financial loss. I just look for another old junker for them. Children are the future, teaching them young that Linux is a viable alternative to Windows or Apple is worth keeping the 3. OS around, for at least a few more years. Kragle von Schnitzelbank on 2. GMT from United StatesPlease present comprehensive performance tests to demonstrate before making sweeping generalizations. Software runs fasterbetter well, only a few badly designed things many things run better on 3. You should use more RAM to avoid swap etc doesnt more RAM mean burning more watts, even at idle Maybe what we need is better SSDs There are 8 bit and 1. CPUs in many systems, often as dedicated devices like subsystem controllers. Should these be replaced by 6. Open. SUSE 3. 2 bit Desktop Opinion Chart by Winchester on 2. GMT from United StatesThis chart seems to be incorrect. Open. SUSE Tumbleweed 3. Desktop https en. SUSE Tumbleweedinstallation. The site may be down for 2. October 1. 3th and October 1. Also,didnt Fedora drop 3. And how are Zorin, Mint, Bodhi etc. Ubuntu dropping it. Torvalds says virtual address space should be vastly larger than RAM by Aaron Franke on 2. GMT from United Stateshttps cl. Your virtual address space needs to be multiple of the physical one when you hit 1. GB of RAM, 3. 2 bit virtual memory is no longer acceptable. You literally do need more virtual memory than physical. Repeat after me virtual space needs to be bigger than physical space. Not as big. Not smaller. It needs to be bigger, by a factor of at least two, and thats quite frankly pushing it, and youre much better off having a factor of ten or more. Even machines with 1 GB of RAM benefit from having a 6. OS. 1. 1 3. 2 Bit hardware is real old by LAZA on 2. GMT from GermanyAs I explained herehttps forum. Bit hardware is mainstream since 2. This is 1. 3 years in the past so take a step and grow oldI know, 3. Bit OS would be enough when RAM size is 4 GB or smaller, but this will gone in some years. Continuing 3. 2 bit OS support. Tom Joad on 2. 01. GMT from FranceI dunno. I am at sea on this one. My vote was in favor of curtailing 3. I dont have and havent had a 3. I know others do have them and use them and like them and want them to continue to run with updated software and such. The comments do mirror that. But if not now, surely soon Development resources are always in short supply for most distros. I dont know how much effort it takes to support, develop, maintain and troubleshoot both 3. It surely can not be easy or cheap to do what needs to be done for both in time and money. That said 6. 4 bit is on the rise and 3. We all know that. Maybe, just maybe it is time to just rip off the band aid and get on with it. Though I wouldnt be against having 3. Anybody got a coin to flip and Jesse can call it in the air. Whaddya think 1. Bit by Ohio. Joe on 2. GMT from United StatesMX Linux is my favorite 3. If you want to carry a complete Linux distro in your pocket on a flash drive with persistence, 3. Unless the computer is to old to have USB, then have a very good shot of having your OS with you. Bit by Pat Menendez on 2. GMT from CanadaI have a very nice Acer dual core 3. Bit laptop with 1. Try to get a new laptop with this spec and the price will choke you. Yes, it is unlikely that you could find current model hardware that was 3. Some of us drive older cars too. We dont thrown them in the trash just because the new one has go faster stripesThere are probably millions of 3. There are a lot of good older hardware that is perfectly usable for what people use computers for the most. Checking email and social media really dont benefit by moving to an i. RAM Be realistic Dont forget that there are also a lot of low income families all around the world that will not be updating their hardware anytime soon and will be thrilled to get older 3. Bit computers given to them. There are still millions of schools with NO COMPUTERSI visited a new school in Nicaragua. In computer class, one student sat at the 3. They had one computer for each 4 5 students in the class There are distos perhaps mostly originating in Europe specializing in distros for older less powerful computers. Hopper &Amp; Sons Manual Roll Bender. There are Education districts in Europe and South America developing their own 3. Bit distros for schools to keep the old computer hardware they have working because there simply isnt the funding to replace thousands of computers. There are still Pentium 4 computers in high school computer labs in Guatemala. Just because most people watching trends and reading articles here have newer hardware and the cash to upgrade to stay current doesnt mean that the majority of computer users in the world do as well. BEFORE they toss their old 3. Bit hardware for the latest 6. Bit hardware We will need 3. OSes for years to come This isnt to say that every distro maker should maintain 3. Bit distros. That is unrealistic. Compare the numbers of 1. Personal computers werent wide spread and the internet and email really didnt exist till 3. Bit computers were everywhere. Bit is not the all and end all of computing OSes. There are a lot of people still using Windows XP There are still a lot of people using KDE 4. Linux is supposed to be about choice rather than dictated choice. Other opinions on 3. Greg Zeng on 2. 01. GMT from AustraliaTx to Nicolae Crefelean welcoming other opinions on 3. Is 3. 2 bit obsoleted Not really, for isolated, simple needs simple users, imho. Only when memory is very limited or for some IOT devices, or for some anti green old hardware. Moores Law old hardware is anti green. New hardware is much cheaper efficient, to buy, use, maintain run space, weight, power, speeds, heat, vibration, RFI radio frequency interference, etc. Not all storage is just fast or slow. The older, cheaper storage HDD, SSD, flash, EPROM, etc obeys Moores Law. The opinion piece in Distrowatch seems to be in favor of ON LINE virtualization, as suggested by VPS. Linux Home Automation.