On 03/08/17 06:37, Larry Finger wrote:
On Wed, Aug 02, 2017 at 03:15:22PM +0200, Richard Biener wrote:
How many people really care for running _Tumbleweed_ on ancient (<= i586) hardware?
I volunteer one day a week at a non-profit organization in Kansas City, whose mission is to refurbish donated computers and sell then at low price to low-income people. Any machines that are received with a dual-core CPU are outfitted with Windows 10, but systems weaker than our cutoff have Leap 42.3 put on them and are given free to the poorest people.
We recently received 4 Dell D820 laptops in extremely good condition. The original plan was to put 32-bit Windows on them; however, they only came with 2 GB RAM, and the machines are very picky about which RAM will work. After quite a bit of effort, our manager gave up. As the Linux expert in the shop, I was charged with finding a 32-bit version of Linux for them. I really hate to even consider a rolling release for machines going to users with little sophistication, but I see few options. As the recipients will likely have only Windows experience. I need something on the desktop that looks like a "Start" button. Using a VirtualBox VM for testing, the only workable candidate is TW with an LXDE desktop.
There are really people that need 32-bit systems.
Larry
On tumbleweed you could also consider LXQt which has seen a lot of work over the last few years. 2GB systems for web browsing are starting to get harder though, its not uncommon for my browser to end up using 2GB on its own. There is also the fact that browsers are now starting to look towards dropping i586, I suspect when i586 does get dropped it will more be because several key upstreams have dropped support rather then something we can control. -- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30 GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B