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Yeah, I think it’s fair to say that. I just booted the latest version of ArchLinux32 on a Wyse Cx0 thin client, which I believe runs a Via C7. It certainly wasn
by jchw 7y ago
Yeah, I think it’s fair to say that. I just booted the latest version of ArchLinux32 on a Wyse Cx0 thin client, which I believe runs a Via C7. It certainly wasn’t high end hardware for the time, being a thin client; had to reduce the framebuffer allocation in BIOS to have enough RAM to boot, but it works, and there’s even active driver development for the GPU with the OpenChrome project.
Of course if you need proprietary or old out of tree modules the story gets worse, but most interesting hardware I’ve plugged in works without me needing to worry about the details, in my experience.
- Decade 7y agoIt’s getting more difficult to run 32-bit x86. The main Arch Linux dropped official support in 2017, Ubuntu dropped it in 2018, Fedora in 2019. Mint is good for old hardware, but they intend to drop 32-bit in 2020. There are LTS releases committed to supporting the 32-bit OS for several years to come, but the writing is on the wall: They have entered the long twilight of no official support, but still working if you can hack it together.