My powerbook 100
No, that will not run NetBSDā¦ it needs an MMU apparently.
Its running system 7.5.5 of mac with a wordprocessor in dutch !
Not much use for anything except a museum if I could find one interested
The current version of antiX is a derivative of the previous version of Debian. Debian dropped support for 32bit with Debian 13. We should consider antiX 32 bit as a legacy version as well.
I have a PowerBook G3 AKA āpiezoā or ābronze keyboardāā¦
400 Mhz PPC and 512 GB RAM (itās actually two sticks of 512 - but theyāre double sided and it only sees them as single sided)ā¦
Anyway - itās āpre-USBā and the optical drive in it is faultyā¦ So I canāt install Linux (or BSD on it) - the best Iāve been able to do is clone the 6 GB HDD to 40 GB HDD - thankfully its IDE and not SCSI - the only bus expansions available are some wierd SCSI connector, and Firewire (and Appleās proprietary āADBā). But it is running OS X (Leopard I think?) which is still UNIX, and as itās PowerPC itās UNIX on RISCā¦
That is the current situationā¦ It all depends on what antiX developers decide to do.
The Antix 25 beta release may give us a clue. I will have a look.
Thank you Manuel for the useful list!
Linux Mint Debian Edition 6 32bit will be updated until October 2026 so it is still a valid option. Firefox 140 ESR 32bit will be supported until September 2026. So if people need to use the internet on a 32bit OS that should be the end of the line. But any PC can be usable as long as it turns on! It depends on what you do with itā¦
Alpine Linux has a totally up-to-date and modern 32-bit version:
Thank you, we missed Alpine.
A 32bit iso has been released for antiX-26-rc1
From what I understand, antiX will continue to provide 32bit support for as long as it is technically possible
Thank you @ProwlerGr
We should retain antiX in the list, even though it is Debian based.
I sort of expected that ā¦ antiX has a stated goal of supporting older hardware.
But Debian has pulled the plug on 32 bit so how are they going to do that ,?
antiX is not Debian
A lot more happens in antiX than just using select Debian packages & slapping on wallpapersā¦
As long as the required software & kernels build with native 32bit support, I gather antiX will be building a selection of software for 32 bit in-house.
Do not underestimate the cleverness of the antiX developers.
Apart from the kernel, 32 bit is just a matter of maintaining a few libraries, and puting a flag on gcc.
If the kernel team stop supporting 32 bit, there may be trouble
Netbsd has no trouble building bsd kernels for about 50 architecturesā¦ antiX should be able to handle 2.
Sorry, I see @ProwlerGr has answered this too
That says it all.
Isnāt antiX part of MX Linux?
I was going by what Neville wrote, never used it or looked it meself
Perhaps this is why new linux users or would be linux users are put off, when collective we some times struggle with what is a base. On Wikipedia there is an image of the tree for linux and what each one is based on. Tried following it and fell over too many branches or roots.
Would linux be better with Perhaps 5 or 10 versions as standard and then if you wanted to change something you just did your own thing . ?
Bet this stirs up a hornets nest.
I am happy with mint gives me just what I need from a system. Dont even want to change colours of folders except for the screen background everything else can stay !
Yes , that is true. MX inherits a lot of things from antiX, but MX is more than a copy of antiX with decorationsā¦ it also has independent components.
Yes it does.
Many competing distros is the life of Linux.
From a developers point of view , you need to have lots of irons in the fire, so that all possibilities are explored.
From a users point of view, you are free to ignore the dispro diasporaā¦ just settle on one as you do. One day you may reach a limitation and you will be glad something else exists.
Compare it to going to the supermarket. You may only like some brands of groceries, but the rest are there so other people can choose.
I similar thing caused āThe UNIX Warsā - however - those guys HAD to make money, they had to sell productsā¦
I donāt care that thereās so many choices for Linuxā¦ It makes for a healthy ecosystem - and such a varied gene pool makes for a strong organism - able to adapt. Itās not quite natural selection, but itās not quite artificial selection eitherā¦
But it can make things tricky - I recently looked at just one distro - Puppy Linux - there was over 7 or 8 choices, more maybe? Howās a new user going to decide which one? I couldnāt and gave up 