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View Poll Results: Which Linux Architecture Do You Use?
Alpha 2 0.38%
ARM 83 15.69%
MIPS 3 0.57%
Power 1 0.19%
PowerPC 11 2.08%
SPARC 3 0.57%
x86_32 214 40.45%
x86_64 434 82.04%
Other 9 1.70%
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 529. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 07-29-2014, 12:34 PM   #91
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i wish we could vote for multiple selections:
i have a nexus-7 which runs cyanogenmod (arm)
2 raspberry-pi's (arm)
and a few pc's (x86-64)
 
Old 11-20-2019, 09:35 PM   #92
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64bit for everyday

32bit mainly because I use an ancient Puppy as a quick-and-dirty boot disk

PPC because I've poked at getting something to run on the G4, so far without success, but that thing is dumb as rocks.
 
Old 11-21-2019, 04:53 AM   #93
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Started out on 32bit, (only one left now), went to 64bit PCs, & now using ARM as well on RPi3A+/3B/3B+ & will have it on my RPi4B/4GB, when they get their software drivers sorted out.

Also have 64bit running on a converted chromebook.

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Old 11-21-2019, 07:28 PM   #94
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I have used linux mint 18.x and currently using ubuntu 1804 on my thinkpad t520 and t420 for about a year. My old HP quad core is my Linux evaluation pc. Both of the laptops I purchased for a distrbution. I am planning to offer linux as an alternative for people on a budget.
 
Old 11-22-2019, 06:43 AM   #95
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Hi,

I use X86-32 & X86-64 on different machines. I have several older Laptops and still use them when needed. My active Laptop is a Dell XPS-701 Intel corei7 and hopefully will remain in use for the long term. It is now 5 years old and stable using Slackware64 14.2 & Slackware64 -current (dual boot).

Have fun & enjoy Slackware!
 
Old 11-22-2019, 12:33 PM   #96
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My main machine could have been x86_64 (it is a Core 2 Duo), but because of lack of RAM I run 32-bit Slackware on it - to keep up compatibility with some 32-bit only applications I got. The 2nd (older) machine can only run 32-bit as it has less then 1 GB of RAM (and no way to extend it, it is too old for that).
But now I can compile applications on the older machine and run them on both.
 
Old 11-26-2019, 01:17 PM   #97
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Now I'm considering moving to ARM64 for one of my computers.
 
Old 11-27-2019, 07:14 AM   #98
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Couple of 32 bit Netbooks (original EEEPC with the Celeron processor plus its Intel Atom cousin)
64 bit home brew AMD box plus my current 64 bit Xeon HP Workstation.

A couple of Android phones and an old Nexus 7 (2012) tablet I've just downgraded to 4.4.4 KitKat. Now usable again!

Had about six months of fun loading Gentoo Sparc linux on a Sun Ultra 2 workstation (2 x 400MHz processors) plus a headless Ultra 5. Very good exercise for learning linux. I kept screwing up the Kernel config file; you eventually learn after the SCSI interface or something else is found to be missing after an overnight kernel compilation! Both Items relegated to the dump a few years ago after requests from my Wife to Spring clean the Man Cave.

Play Bonny!

 
Old 11-28-2019, 11:46 AM   #99
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32-bit (x86-32) by choice.

My ancient, 17-yr old Dell lappie; no option - 32-bit, non-HT Pentium 4 CPU. (*shrug*)

My main rig has a dual-core Athlon 64.....but this is really ancient first-gen silicon, and I run a kennels of 32-bit Puppies on it by choice, since they're kinder to the aging hardware.

I run a single 64-bit Puppy, on which I build the community versions of up-to-date Google Chrome (but that's the only reason). The remainder of the kennels run the 32-bit version of Iron.

By and large, the 32-bit Puppies are so fast on this hardware, and so easy in their demands, that I shall probably remain with them until the mobo expires.....


Mike.

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