Thank Jackson -- I do have plenty of other, newer machines for Sage development! But as I am the upstream provider of the eclib (a standard dependency of Sage) and regularly get told that something does not work on a 32-bit machine, I thought I could resurrect the ancient one for that purpose -- and that purpose only!
John On Fri, 13 Dec 2024 at 09:10, Jackson Walters <jacksonwalt...@gmail.com> wrote: > It sounds like you are going to be fighting this thing if you stick with > it. I'm seeing some pretty nice refurbished machines with 8gb memory on > eBay on the cheap. If that's not an option, I wouldn't think twice about > recycling it and waiting until you have a machine that runs Sage easily. > > On Fri, Dec 13, 2024 at 3:53 AM John Cremona <john.crem...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> I don't want to bore people with this, as it is only slightly >> sage-related. Yesterday I tried and failed several times to install debian >> on the machine, both with the small size installation iso image (which then >> needs to download more as it goes) and the larger one. It always fails >> during the stage called (something like) "select and install software", as >> far as I can see at that point apt gives up waiting for a remote server. >> My internet connection is fine. Of course I cannot rule out a problem with >> the machine itself (when I replaced it in 2008 there was some specific >> reason, though I do not remember exactly what -- I had access to funds, the >> old machine didn't have wifi and was certainly under-powered for Sage >> development!)). >> >> I may try MX or fluxbox but my patience is wearing a bit thin and I have >> some other things to take to the recycling place in the next week... >> >> John >> >> On Thursday, 12 December 2024 at 08:57:00 UTC John Cremona wrote: >> >>> Thanks for all the suggestions. I made a boot disk USB for debian and >>> am trying that right now. I will report back. >>> >>> John >>> >>> On Thursday, 12 December 2024 at 08:18:09 UTC Emil Widmann wrote: >>> >>>> MX Linux is pretty solid and debian based >>>> There is a 32 bit build for MX Linux XFCE, >>>> https://mxlinux.org/download-links/ >>>> https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=MX >>>> >>>> fluxbox version should be even lighter >>>> >>>> >>>> dim...@gmail.com schrieb am Mittwoch, 11. Dezember 2024 um 18:52:05 >>>> UTC+1: >>>> >>>>> Debian will most probably work, and it's pretty close to familiar to >>>>> you Ubunty. >>>>> Or perhaps you rather get a distro with an up to date Sage there, >>>>> e.g. Void: https://voidlinux.org/ >>>>> >>>>> On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 9:41 AM Georgi Guninski <ggun...@gmail.com> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> > >>>>> > > The laptop has 3gb ram. What Linux distribution would people >>>>> recommend? I see that Debian supports 32bit still. >>>>> > >>>>> > I don't know the answer, but you may consider trying Debian >>>>> > with some lightweight window manager like XFCE or even possibly >>>>> > no X, only console. >>>>> > IMHO the bottleneck is not 32bit, but only 3GB RAM. >>>>> > From my experience I have run XFCE in a virtual machine with only >>>>> 4GB >>>>> > RAM and one core and it is slow, but usable. >>>>> > >>>>> > -- >>>>> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>> Groups "sage-devel" group. >>>>> > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, >>>>> send an email to sage-devel+...@googlegroups.com. >>>>> > To view this discussion visit >>>>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/CAGUWgD9Y-HNCJNgB%2Bz1PeEO2S3xxk%2BHcxG35EORbPyrkrrGvXg%40mail.gmail.com. >>>>> >>>>> >>>> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "sage-devel" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/f651c35d-45ef-499e-98cb-f8d8b19c4049n%40googlegroups.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/f651c35d-45ef-499e-98cb-f8d8b19c4049n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "sage-devel" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/sage-devel/pQw-LawYZPA/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/CAGqtwVCCCjmRQHiXQP1Et-644bY0c0NNB%3DRZSc%3D0WYbOhdXnBQ%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/CAGqtwVCCCjmRQHiXQP1Et-644bY0c0NNB%3DRZSc%3D0WYbOhdXnBQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/CAD0p0K5Dc-%3DmucrQkuNb%3DKgSh3%2Bm%3D2NF1ZM7D%3Dk%2B38QOZ2qHLQ%40mail.gmail.com.
