32bit

qrange · 05-08-2018, 01:05 AM

seems many well known distros now require 64bit, dammit.
(and they had been saying, like, oooh 64bit offer no speed improvement or anything compared to 32bit, yeah right.)

I have an older CPU, it runs 64bit host OS fine, but VBox can't run 64bit guests.
Can you please recommend a fast lightweight 32bit distro with nice support?
thank you.

zk1234 · 05-08-2018, 02:10 AM

Distro:
https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/4mlinux-115/

Nice support:
Me :-)

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fatmac · 05-08-2018, 03:17 AM

You might like to take a look at AntiX - http://antix.mepis.org/index.php?title=Main_Page

DavidMcCann · 05-08-2018, 11:38 AM

Debian has 32-bit, but Gnome is hardly suitable for an older CPU. I tried installing one of the non-standard Debian versions the other day: no live session of course, and the installer had a bug that was only revealed half-way through the installation.

I presume you'll want support for both Latin and Cyrillic, in which case don't use AntiX: it's not happy with multiple keyboard drivers.

Try Mint: you can't go far wrong with that.

anticapitalista · 05-08-2018, 04:07 PM

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Originally Posted by DavidMcCann

I presume you'll want support for both Latin and Cyrillic, in which case don't use AntiX: it's not happy with multiple keyboard drivers.

This is not true. I use antiX with both Greek and English keyboard without issue.

DavidMcCann · 05-09-2018, 11:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by anticapitalista

This is not true. I use antiX with both Greek and English keyboard without issue.

Perhaps I was a little unfair. Setting up multiple keyboard drivers was not actually a problem. But, having three keyboard drivers, I needed an indicator on the panel to see what I was doing. That fell out badly with Icewm and I ended up with a corrupted system that I couldn't fix. I then tried to install Xfce, only to find that you now have a separate version to the standard Debian one. That only allowed me to log in as root and my query about this on your forum was unsolved. Naturally, I was left a little less enthusiastic about AntiX than I used to be!

anticapitalista · 05-09-2018, 01:42 PM

You have made another mistake. antiX does not have a different Xfce. If users install Xfce on antiX, they get it from the default Debian repos.
The only Xfce debs we have are the ones in this repo - to remove systemd/libsystemd0 dependencies. ie only xfce4-power-manager

http://repo.antixlinux.com/stretch/pool/nosystemd/x/

DavidMcCann · 05-10-2018, 12:17 PM

We're getting off-topic here, but your forum adminstrator rokytnji asked me "How did you install XFCE. Did you use the package installer in the antix control center? If you used synaptic package manager. No wonder it is screwed up." And whether the Xfce package was tweaked or vanilla Debian, the fact remain that it was broken and no-one at antixforum could solve that.

fatmac · 05-11-2018, 02:08 PM

Your XFCE experience must have been something awry with the XFCE package.

I've been using AntiX for several years without any problems like that, so I think you were just unlucky on that one occasion.

But back to the subject of this thread, there is a 32bit version readily available & used by many people quite happily.

jefro · 05-11-2018, 03:32 PM

"it runs 64bit host OS fine, but VBox can't run 64bit guests"

I think you should be able to run 64 bit vm clients.

Mill J · 05-11-2018, 09:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jefro

"it runs 64bit host OS fine, but VBox can't run 64bit guests"

I think you should be able to run 64 bit vm clients.

Correct. @OP do you have virtualization technology turned on in your bios/UEFI settings?

qrange · 05-12-2018, 05:42 AM

bios doesn't have that option, its quite old.
dunno if its motherboard or cpu or both, but i'm sure it can't run 64bit guests.

michaelk · 05-12-2018, 06:13 AM

Quote:

VirtualBox supports 64-bit guest operating systems, even on 32-bit host operating systems,[10] provided that the following conditions are met:

You need a 64-bit processor with hardware virtualization support (see Section 10.3, “Hardware vs. software virtualization”).

You must enable hardware virtualization for the particular VM for which you want 64-bit support; software virtualization is not supported for 64-bit VMs.

If your motherboard does not support hardware virtualization then you can not run 64 bit guests.

https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch03.html

hydrurga · 05-12-2018, 06:59 AM

To test if your CPU supports hardware virtualisation:

Code:

egrep "(svm|vmx)" /proc/cpuinfo

If either of these is found, it does.

YesItsMe · 05-14-2018, 04:02 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by qrange

Can you please recommend a fast lightweight 32bit distro with nice support?

Tried BSD? Chances are you won't notice any difference in your daily work.