Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Old Hardware Redux Date: 21 Aug 2025 18:05:13 GMT Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: <1084bk6$2ia1m$2@paganini.bofh.team> <1084bpn$7mtq$26@dont-email.me> <68a64428@news.ausics.net> <1086q67$2rq5s$5@paganini.bofh.team> <1086st0$rgpt$20@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net ohZI5eYPkUnnF6XHy3UxzgP2lVO+hDaJzFaO8J27CgfBfE2b71 Cancel-Lock: sha1:Vi+LLOypA6cIgg4MnKUV45aRwJU= sha256:n4Mp9SAtpcVb8NX3/NdoGlmOxwRid8FA2WWh2UEJtN0= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:71859 On Thu, 21 Aug 2025 11:37:20 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote: > On 21/08/2025 10:51, Marco Moock wrote: >> On 21.08.2025 07:54 Computer Nerd Kev wrote: >> >>> The Natural Philosopher wrote: >>>> 10 year old technology is fine, Just not 20 year old... >>> >>> For posting to Usenet, this 30 year old PC is doing fine for me. >> >> How do you install a current OS on it that supports current network >> protocols? >> > Find an older version of some current Linux that supports 32bit I guess. > > TCP/IP and Usenet haven't changed in 30 years really... That windows is closing. My work Linux box is 32-bit Debian because I have to build 32-bit legacy software. To clarify, the hardware is 64-bit so it could run the 64-bit Bullseye distro, and gcc has flags to build 32-bit. The problem comes with libraries.