Someone suggests Slackware as an alternative of Arch Linux 32-bit. I have look around the Slackware website, but can't see where I can download its ISO file. Is purchasing its CD the only option to have it?

for the stable releases of Slackware

https://mirrors.slackware.com/slackware/slackware-iso/

for the development release of Slackware (not indicated for someone starting with Slackware)

http://bear.alienbase.nl/mirrors/sla...e-current-iso/

FWIW there's also a pinned topic about it

https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...rs-4175429593/

2 members found this post helpful.

NVM

Well, I don't know your situation but days of 32-bit systems and CDs are almost gone. You might consider switching to more modern solutions.

Thanks very much for your info. Is slackware64-14.2-iso for 32-bit?

Slackware64 is 64-bit

There is a 32-bit version too. It's just called slackware-14.2-iso.

Where can I find its 32-bit ISO file? The linked page mentions Torrents file format. I don't know how to handle it.

https://mirrors.slackware.com/slackw...ware-14.2-iso/

You want the ISO named: slackware-14.2-install-dvd.iso

1 members found this post helpful.

Thank countryman! I will give it a try.

2 members found this post helpful.

Looks like you got the answer, but just for future reference, the 64bit version will have "64" right after "slackware" and before the version (slackware64-14.2), where the 32bit version doesn't have anything after "slackware" (slackware-14.2). It is something that can be easily missed and I've accidentally downloaded the 32bit version when I intended to download the 64bit version (I haven't ran 32bit Slackware for many years).

Only the 32bit version is available with CD ISOs. Both the 32bit and 64bit versions have DVD ISOs available (which can be written to a USB drive instead of a DVD for easy USB booting). Most everyone uses the DVD ISOs as they'll either write the ISO to a DVD or USB drive.

1 members found this post helpful.

Thanks for your additional info.

You can download Slackware's 14.2 32 bit ISO from here: https://slackware.uk/slackware/slack...nstall-dvd.iso

You can take a look at all the available options at: https://slackware.uk/slackware/slack...ware-14.2-iso/

... and overall you can browser at: https://slackware.uk to find a lot of different resources related to Slackware.

As you may have noticed already there are different mirrors from where you can get resources related to Slackware and I recommend slackware.uk since that is the one that usually gives me better transfer speed times.

Also, if you are new to Slackware, you should check up the docs: https://docs.slackware.com/

Specially the part of upgrading the system, since the ISO of Slackware 14.2 dates from 2016 . Such information is available at: https://docs.slackware.com/slackware:beginners_guide the part of "Configuring a Package Manager" sub-section "slackpkg". As I resume of what is told there: Pick up a mirror (to download patches/upgrades), use slackpkg to sync with the mirror and then use the command to upgrade your system (update gpg, update, install-new, upgrade-all, clean-system) and after that you should have a pretty much usable system.

There are more ways to update Slackware like downloading the slackware's tree to your computer thus having a local repository, that comes pretty useful and handy when having to install Slackware in a lot of computers and apply upgrades to all of them. But it is also good if experimenting with Slackware, so if you mess up, you will not have to download everything again since you have a copy already downloaded. If you want to do something like that, I think this may be useful: https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...te-4175658897/

1 members found this post helpful.

What hardware are you running 32 bit Slackware on? I'd be curious to hear how well it runs.

Exactly how I do it. I use a script from Alien Bob to keep the tree up to date and another of his scripts to write an ISO