Comments on: Goodbye, Lowarch

By: Another winner: ConnochaetOS at 150Mhz, 32Mb « Motho ke motho ka botho

Another winner: ConnochaetOS at 150Mhz, 32Mb « Motho ke motho ka botho — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 13:11:27 +0000

[...] Arch to run on sub-Pentium IIs for years now, and I rejoice everyone puts together a i586 branch. Lowarch led the pack a while back, followed by a few independent efforts, and most recently the dearly [...]

By: billy the blog reader

billy the blog reader — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 21:32:17 +0000

yeah, when will big distros (i’m pointing at you ubuntu) realise that they’re going down the same route as windows did (i’d say right now (pre 10.10) they’re at the XP SP2/almost to vista stage

By: Armor Nick

Armor Nick — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 18:10:37 +0000

I believe Mandriva is i586, but it’s far from light, of course

By: billy the blog reader

billy the blog reader — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 16:48:38 +0000

why isn’t there a ISO like crux (but archlike with a real pkg manager) for i586 cpu’s being maintained?, why is it always i386 or i686?

By: Glenn Becker

Glenn Becker — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 15:56:50 +0000

I would include Slackware in the list of options for i586. One can quite happily leave out everything KDE-related, and more, in a Slack install and go quite minimal.

By: imgx64

imgx64 — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 15:48:15 +0000

Three years old only? Microsoft could learn a lesson or two from you *cough*XP is still being sold*cough*.