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As people noted, odd Slackware was not listed. But, for 32 bit systems, right now I believe you are probably better of using NetBSD or OpenBSD. Both systems d
by jmclnx 6y ago
As people noted, odd Slackware was not listed.
But, for 32 bit systems, right now I believe you are probably better of using NetBSD or OpenBSD. Both systems do not have the 2038 problem and use far less resources.
Granted Linux is working on 2038, but I think it is not 100% and only in 5.6+ (IIRC).
Also with the wayland push in Linux, I am not sure how well wayland will work on 32 bit systems with limited memory.
- guenthert 6y agoIt's still 18 years to 2038 though. If unix time is my biggest problem in 2038, I'll be very, very happy.
- ndesaulniers 6y agoLinux completed 2038 work. Arnd Bergmann of Linaro completed it for 5.10.
- lolspongo 6y agoI recently went with 32bit OpenBSD and Alpine Linux while revamping a small collection of Atom & Pentium M netbooks (the Toshiba Portege was as thin/light as the Macbook Air) after replacing the spinny disks for SSDs. Alpine is great because you can keep your home dirs, some configuration & packages etc. on an encrypted thumb drive that can be swapped between computers. It's like an author using an old typewriter to focus, can't use Chrome (too slow) but NetSurf is great for occasional HN and reference material browsing. All I really need is a shell, Vim, i3, Python and a compiler... reminds me of the Minix days - just you, an editor and a C compiler without any distractions.