[HN Gopher] PsychOS Linux - 32-bit distro for older computers
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PsychOS Linux - 32-bit distro for older computers
Author : indigodaddy
Score : 37 points
Date : 2022-10-30 20:31 UTC (2 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (psychoslinux.gitlab.io)
(TXT) w3m dump (psychoslinux.gitlab.io)
| bombcar wrote:
| There's some argument for using a 32-bit distro on systems with
| 4GB of RAM or less - https://www.sevarg.net/2021/12/18/raspberry-
| pi-32-bit-vs-64-...
|
| (It's not likely worth it for most cases, but in theory half-size
| pointers can help.)
| bombcar wrote:
| Gentoo still builds i486 versions:
| https://www.gentoo.org/downloads/
|
| Get going! By the time X finishes compiling we'll probably be at
| 128 bit.
| xbar wrote:
| Black Ray-Bans, drop top Porsche, and a Maxell Metal Cassette
| playing PsychOS trailer music.
|
| It's a good Sunday.
| 29athrowaway wrote:
| Try Damn Small Linux
| LAC-Tech wrote:
| Abandoned, but one of the guys behind it went on to make Tiny
| Core linux.
|
| I have very fond memories of being a broke student with crappy
| computers, booting stuff like DSL, slitaz and puppy.
| mike_hock wrote:
| That's been abandoned, right?
|
| The last "News Milestone" is May 3, 2004, and I can't find any
| other timestamps or dates on the website.
|
| It'd be OK for a project like that to have old, frozen software
| versions as long as it receives security updates, but the
| website makes it damn near impossible to assess whether any
| maintenance is taking place at all.
| 29athrowaway wrote:
| I see. It shines on old hardware.
| anthk wrote:
| Delicate Linux would be preferable. Or better, just plain
| NetBSD.
| Elv13 wrote:
| To be fair, "old hardware" is kind of frozen in time by
| definition. DSL is what it is. If you want to play with
| hardware with 32mb of ram, it does what it does. It isn't
| really an OS you want to "use" or "expand upon". I would not
| suggest to connect it to the Internet or expect any kind of
| updates, security or otherwise.
|
| The main case for it at this point is retro computing. Most
| retro computing enthusiasts run era correct OS (MacOS7-9, Mac
| OS X, Win9x, DOS, AIX/IRIX/SunOS/HPUX, BeOS, Amiga 3x, etc).
| Those are not getting security updates either.
|
| I put it in the same category as Haiku, Visopsys, AROS and
| ReactOS, fun toy for older computers. Not very relevant as
| day-to-day. I still have and expand a collection of live CDs
| for the P3/PR era laptop. Again, those don't get security
| updates, but are fun to explore.
|
| Personally, I am more into Linux window managers (and
| AwesomeWM maintainer) to recreate the interesting concepts
| from those OS rather than rice 90s silicon. However I really
| enjoyed using a Pentium1 laptop full time for a few months in
| university in the late 00's just to prove a point. But for
| that I compiled my own OS rather than use a distro. If you
| want to get the most out of these machine, that's the way.
| jacob019 wrote:
| I like bunsenlabs on old hardware. It's Debian based with
| openbox, some bits from xfce, and some custom config utilities.
| It's a continuation of Crunchbang Linux which was discontinued.
| Openbox is very nice and light, but the default configuration on
| Debian is not really usable. Xfce or Mate on Debian can be good
| choices as well.
| BMc2020 wrote:
| Raspbian on an old dell laptop. Chrome with a reload page
| extension updates the weather every hour.
| yjftsjthsd-h wrote:
| > Raspbian on an old dell laptop.
|
| ? Raspbian is for ARM, what are you talking about?
| jcelerier wrote:
| there's an x86 version specially for old computers:
| https://www.raspberrypi.com/software/raspberry-pi-desktop/
| yjftsjthsd-h wrote:
| Well, you learn something every day! That's fascinating;
| I'll have to take a look. Thanks:)
| prosaic-hacker wrote:
| I like small retro hw supporting distros. Puppy Fossa is running
| on several of my machines.
|
| I don't like the background on web page enough that I got off of
| it before downloading the distro. Please give me an option to
| visually assaulted.
| mike_hock wrote:
| _Visually_ assaulted? That shit is still "transferring data"
| and pegging a core at 100%.
| xenonite wrote:
| Ironically, the background animation stutters even on fast
| hardware.
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