Re: What old Linux distro to run on a old Pentium III PC?

From	rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
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Subject	Re: What old Linux distro to run on a old Pentium III PC?
Date	2025-06-20 03:28 +0000
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On Thu, 19 Jun 2025 21:14:00 -0000 (UTC), Robert Heller wrote:

> I believe there might be 32-bit install images for older releases for
> some distros (eg Ubuntu 16.04) and then you could then do successive
> release upgrades.

Debian still has a current 32-bit release and is fairly light with xfce. 
I'm running 32-bit Bullseye on my work machine. The box could do 64-bit 
but I have to build 32-bit legacy software. You can pass a flag to the 
compiler but it's a hassle to get 32-bit libraries for Ubuntu or other 64-
bit only releases.

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