[sf-lug] Thanks to 'artoo' RE: Manjaro Openrc to Artix

[maestro]

Quoting aaron:

>>Well, a highly relevant and fairly-recent announcement on that...
According to at least
>> https://fossbytes.com/manjaro-17-0-3-released-features-last-32bitrelease/
<https://fossbytes.com/manjaro-17-0-3-released-features-last-32bit-release/>
 and https://itsfoss.com/manjaro-drops-32-bit-support/,
>>one of your (maestro's) favorite distros is actually _discontinuing_ its
support for 32bit CPUs. While that may not affect you at all, there are
numerous persons such as myself who >>are keeping our x86 32bit machines
around, and find neither Manjaro's nor Artix's 64bit-only versions such
"kewl" >>developments after all :-/


Yes, that is correct.
Another option still existing AFAIK is VOID LINUX which I 'believe' you are
familiar with
and 'may' have actually already played with.
Here are their sys. req.'s for i686 I have pasted directly from the VOID
site:


The i686 images have these requirements:

   - Pentium 4 CPU (SSE2), 96MB RAM, 350MB disk, Ethernet / WiFi for
   network installation.

Log in as anon/root, password voidlinux.

To start the installer just execute the *void-installer* utility with
enough permissions (i.e *sudo*).

Additional live images with *flavours* (an additional Desktop Environment
with autologin) are also available:

   - Enlightenment
   - Cinnamon
   - LXDE
   - MATE
   - XFCE

These images need at least 256 or 512 MB of RAM in order to work correctly.



And I have included for posterity this 'Without Systemd' wiki which you
(and others of course) may find interesting to peruse...


<
http://without-systemd.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page#Unix-like_and_derivatives
>



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On Sun, Oct 1, 2017 at 5:29 PM, acohen36 <acohen36 at sdf.org> wrote:

> Quoting maestro <maestro415 at gmail.com>:
>
> Very kewl reading different writings,blurbs,blogs et al. by Developer
>> 'artoo' explaining the end (evolution via migration) of MANJARO-Openrc
>> Linux & the creation of Artix 1.0 NON_sytstemd distro.
>>
>> Very concise, very informative, and very usable for those enjoying
>> what's going on in this 'realm' of Linux.
>>
>
> Well, a highly relevant and fairly-recent announcement on that...
> According to at least https://fossbytes.com/manjaro-
> 17-0-3-released-features-last-32bit-release/ and
> https://itsfoss.com/manjaro-drops-32-bit-support/, one of your
> (maestro's) favorite distros is actually _discontinuing_ its support for
> 32bit CPUs. While that may not affect you at all, there are numerous
> persons such as myself who are keeping our x86 32bit machines around, and
> find neither Manjaro's nor Artix's 64bit-only versions such "kewl"
> developments after all :-/
>
> The systemd-free Devuan and Debian's current Stable/Stretch and
> Testing/Buster releases, OTOH, plan to offer 32-bit i686 distro versions
> well into the foreseeble short-term future; at least as long as I can see
> from various online discussion postings such as Reddit's
> https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/4omfud/why_are_distr
> os_starting_to_drop_x86_support/.
>
> -A
> acohen36 at sdf.org
> SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.org
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