On Thu, 15 Apr 2021 at 18:50, Harald Arnesen <skog...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I would try Void Linux and Alpine Linux on such hardware.
Good points. Thanks for the tips -- to be honest I did not know they supported x86-32. I have tried both before, but only in VMs. Void Linux I quite liked: very simple and clean, but seemed feature-complete and fast. Alpine I found very challenging indeed; although I have seen a running instance with a full Xfce desktop, I was not able to install the packages and get a graphical desktop working on my test install. The documentation is scant and patchy, and because it is a rolling-release, often what docs are out there are outdated, and tell you detailed steps to accomplish something that no longer work 6 months later. This is one of the big strengths of Arch Linux: although it's a rolling release, the documentation is lavish and exceptionally complete. The snag with rolling-release distros is that they are only suitable for machines in constant use, where you can frequently update. They are problematic on machines you may only use once every few months; each time you turn the computer on, you need to do a massive update, and because some subcomponents may change in major ways, things can break. I run openSUSE Tumbleweed on my machine in the office. I have been working from home for over a year now. I think that when I finally return to the office, it will be easier to reformat the machine and start over than to update a year-old rolling release that has been booted about 3 times in a year. -- Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk – gMail/gTalk/gHangouts: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn/Flickr: lproven – Skype: liamproven UK: +44 7939-087884 – ČR (+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal): +420 702 829 053 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
