Re: What's the best low-end supported Linux to use in a very old 2008 MacBook Pro?

From	"J.O. Aho" <user@example.net>
Newsgroups	alt.os.linux, linuxanswers.discussion, alt.linux, alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions
Subject	Re: What's the best low-end supported Linux to use in a very old 2008 MacBook Pro?
Date	2022-06-16 13:41 +0200
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On 16/06/2022 12.45, Aragorn wrote:
> On 15.06.2022 at 18:11, Mike Easter scribbled:
> 
>> Ant wrote:
>>> Which ones do I get fromhttps://mxlinux.org/download-links/  for
>>> it?
>>
>> I seem to remember someone Mac saying something about part of the Mac
>> being 32bit in spite of a 64bit cpu
> 
> The first Intel-based Macs were all 64-bit capable, but they would
> boot a 32-bit version of the kernel by default unless a special key
> combination was pressed during power-up.  If the user did press that
> key combination, then it would boot a 64-bit kernel, but the userland
> was all still 32-bit.
> 
> Later versions of macOS would boot in 64-bit mode only, and I'm not
> even sure whether it was still compatible with 32-bit userland
> software — it might have been, for a while still.

Yes, the PowerPC OSX (10.5 Leopard) that did run 64bit kernel did have 
support to run both 64bit and 32bit applications.

-- 

  //Aho

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What's the best low-end supported Linux to use in a very old 2008 MacBook Pro? ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2022-06-15 13:41 -0500
  Re: What's the best low-end supported Linux to use in a very old 2008 MacBook Pro? Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2022-06-15 13:08 -0700
    Re: What's the best low-end supported Linux to use in a very old 2008 MacBook Pro? ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2022-06-15 18:55 -0500
      Re: What's the best low-end supported Linux to use in a very old 2008 MacBook Pro? "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org> - 2022-06-15 20:28 -0400
        Re: What's the best low-end supported Linux to use in a very old 2008 MacBook Pro? ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2022-06-15 19:44 -0500
          Re: What's the best low-end supported Linux to use in a very old 2008 MacBook Pro? "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org> - 2022-06-15 20:46 -0400
          Re: What's the best low-end supported Linux to use in a very old 2008 MacBook Pro? Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be> - 2022-06-16 12:38 +0200
    X-Posting (Was: What's the best low-end supported Linux to use in a very old 2008 MacBook Pro?) "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2022-06-16 07:44 +0200
  Re: What's the best low-end supported Linux to use in a very old 2008 MacBook Pro? Marco Moock <mo01@posteo.de> - 2022-06-15 22:08 +0200
  Re: What's the best low-end supported Linux to use in a very old 2008 MacBook Pro? Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2022-06-15 13:21 -0700
    Re: What's the best low-end supported Linux to use in a very old 2008 MacBook Pro? "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2022-06-16 07:54 +0200
  Re: What's the best low-end supported Linux to use in a very old 2008 MacBook Pro? Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2022-06-15 13:54 -0700
    Re: What's the best low-end supported Linux to use in a very old 2008 MacBook Pro? ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2022-06-15 19:17 -0500
      Re: What's the best low-end supported Linux to use in a very old 2008 MacBook Pro? Mike Easter <MikeE@ster.invalid> - 2022-06-15 18:11 -0700
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