DistroWatch.com: Soplos Linux News and feature lists of Linux and BSD distributions. I stumbled in to this distro Soplos Linux and i Installed it yesterday its based on Debian Testing and there is 3 different versions Kde plasma which i chose and there is a …

No i haven’t but why should i need that since im admin ?

[image] Mikael: why should i need that since im admin ? Being “admin” most probably means you are in the sudoers. So whenever you need to do something system-wide, you can use sudo and issue the command with elveated rights. Without sudo you are just a regular user. Connecting to VPN means …

ok. so its a Debian thing then ? i have tried at least 10 different distros but never needed to use root to get my vpn to work

[image] Mikael: so its a Debian thing then ? i have tried at least 10 different distros Probably yes, I don’t know. For printing you need to be in lp group, for managing a printer lpadmin membership is necessary. This is something similar I guess, my wife needs SSTP VPN to her employers net…

[image] Daniel Phillips: I can see you have not tried to get Linux to run on 32bit hardware I have. I ran Freebsd for years on a 486. I had a Pentium laptop that ran Debian dual booted with XP, then I ditched it all and ran Void in it … it was 32 bit , single processor. I even attempted G…

I have just tried soplos linux gnome boro and before that i had tried the xfce variant tyron and liked them . However i have not seen anything i can’t do on my good old debian stable system, still it was nice to see that they used btrfs its always cool to see a debian based os using my favourite fi…

DistroWatch.com: SparkyLinux News and feature lists of Linux and BSD distributions. Hi Daniel here is SparkyLinux it supports 32 bit processors maybe it can work in your older pc. Regards Mikael

And here is an article from ZDNET about it. [image] Sparky Linux just restored 32-bit support - why that still matters Got an old 32-bit computer lying around? Don't throw it away - Sparky Linux has decided not to give up on the aging architecture.

There are at least 2 other distros with 32 bit support … Void and antiX

Has anyone tried Soplos Linux?

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nevj (Neville Jackson) 13 August 2026 13:41 57

Thanks for reminder Harold.
I dont think it mentions Sparky.