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I've got an older machine that I'd like to give a second life. I've always been an Ubuntu fan in the past, but checking their site for a lightweight distri it looks like they've gone all 64 bit. Is that right? Can I still get a recent version for a 32-bit processor?

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[–] Shareni@programming.dev 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Check out Antix, Debian based, and it's primarily made for older devices and has a 32bit ISO

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I second this suggestion. I have an old touchscreen PC from about 2001 with a Via Eden CPU, which is an incredibly feeble low-power processor that lacks some instructions that were common even in 32-bit days, and Antix was the only reasonably modern distro I could get to run on it.

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