[artix-general] any recommended ISO for a 32bit

[Vitor Sonoki]

Hey there.

> I would like to try Artix in a 32bit intel machine and tried to get
> into your old ISO archive but the link is broken, is there any Artix
> base ISO better for this ?

If you're looking for distros with first-class 32-bit architecture
support, sadly, the number of choices is diminishing for Linux.

It looks like Artix itself doesn't support it[1], and neither does Arch
officially either (there is a community effort [2] to make 32-bit Arch
Linux, but it's doesn't seem endorsed by the main distro).

> I'm a linux user for more than 10 years, I have installed several
> linux distros since then (always graphical), but now I starting to
> get deeper into linux, I've been learning more about the terminal and
> commands so I think I'm ready to install Arch or some OS pretty
> closed to it.

If you're looking for something like Artix but still runnable on
32-bit x86 hardware, and don't fear doing work in the terminal, I
recommend you to try the following:

 - Alpine Linux: independent non-systemd distribution with fairly
   up-to-date packages and kernel (still not rolling release). The
   environment is pretty minimal, a-la vanilla Artix/Arch, but
   installation is much simpler (script-based). x86 support is first
   class.
 - Devuan: also non-systemd, based off of Debian. The stable release
   lags considerably behind the latest, but you could run the
   "unstable" channel (Ceres) for that - it's much less unstable
   than you'd think. Note that the Debian project itself has decided to
   slowly sunset 32-bit x86 into the future, but it's still supported.
 - If you're open to trying something that's not Linux, most if not all
   BSDs still support x86 first-class.

Hope this helps you. It's a real pity how x86 is slowly being sunset
everywhere. I, too, have a machine on that architecture with less and
less choices available...

Yours,

Vitor S
PGP: 50AADBDE09EF8744BA333E607A4E71A737168122
https://vitorsonoki.github.io

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[1] https://forum.artixlinux.org/index.php/topic,405.0.html
[2] https://archlinux32.org/

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