[sf-lug] A short and simple survey1~

[maestro]

[quoting aaron...]



>>o Question two: part 1. More than three Gigabytes of memory?

>>The installed Linux OS's on that 32 bit desktop PC will only recognize up
>>to 3 GB or thereabouts of memory even if 4 GB is physically installed and
>>recognized by the BIOS.


thank you for noting this aaron...
will you please explain for the 'populace' why your machine only
"recognizes up to 3GB" of memory [ram]...


if you don't care to simply respond "no."


thank you...


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On Mon, Oct 8, 2018 at 8:10 PM aaronco36 <aaronco36 at sdf.org> wrote:

>
> Bobbie Sellers bliss-sf4ever at dslextreme.com wrote at [1]:
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ quoting ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> I have decided to do a little survey about who may still be running 32 bit
> machines on the LUG mailing list and who might still be open to using
> other distributions than they have currently installed.
>
> You can reply to me off the list if you don't want to write back to the
> list.
>
> Respond please if you are using a 32 bit machine and are at all interested
> in changing distributions
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> Okay, I'll also respond.
>
> o Question one: Are you using a 32 bit machine?
>
> I sure am. They're netbooks and an older desktop PC, and they all
> recognize USB sticks and external USB hdd's just fine.
>
>
> o Question two: How much RAM memory do you have in your computer?
>
> ComputerS plural.
> The 32 bit netbooks max out at 2GB of RAM.
> The older 32 bit desktop PC can "supposedly" use 4GB of RAM (but see
> below)
>
>
> o Question two: part 1. More than three Gigabytes of memory?
>
> The installed Linux OS's on that 32 bit desktop PC will only recognize up
> to 3 GB or thereabouts of memory even if 4 GB is physically installed and
> recognized by the BIOS.
>
>
> o Are you interested in changing the operating system on your computer
> whether you use 32 bit or 64 bit machines?
>
> I'm going ahead and making a distinction between changing the _installed_
> OS on my 32 bit computers versus using various distros' bootable _live_
> CDs or USBs on the same.
>
> So.....
> A. Medium to low interest in changing the _installed_ OS's on my 32 bit
> computers --- my own personal preferences, though, continue to be for
> systemd-free installed distros ;)
> B. High interest in continuing to try out various liveUSB distros on these
> 32 bit computers
>
> Note furthermore that
> B' you (Bobbie S) have very helpfully provided me in the past with the
> latest KNOPPIX liveDVD's, which I've succesfully used to create liveUSB
> sticks that boot on _all_ my 32 bit computers :-)
> B'' AntiX in its 32 bit x86 version has in the past worked fine as a
> bootable liveUSB on these computers as well (as per Bobbie S's "planning
> on bringing along the latest editions of Mageia 6.1, Anti-X 17.2 and
> Calculate Linux 18" for next week's SF-LUG [2])
>
>
> > Thanks for any on-topic responses.
>
> You are welcome :-)
> -A
>
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> [2]http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/sf-lug/2018q4/013440.html
>
> aaronco36 at sdf.org
>
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