[GTALUG] Lightweight Linux Distributions and Graphics Drivers

[Nicholas Krause]

On 5/13/20 6:25 PM, Don Tai wrote:
> I thought Arch dropped their 32 bit versions a year or so ago, but 
> there's an archlinux32.org <http://archlinux32.org> site that seems to 
> support a fork.

That's correct. I mentioned it does depend on your use case through.

Nick
>
> On Wed, 13 May 2020 at 16:50, Nicholas Krause via talk 
> <talk at gtalug.org <mailto:talk at gtalug.org>> wrote:
>
>     Greetings.
>
>     I've not looked recently but from memory and the discussion yesterday
>     seems people
>     have a use case for them. Off the top of my memory the three ideal
>     candidates depending
>     on what you requirements  would be:
>
>     1. Arch or Gentoo if your fine rolling basically your own distro
>     with a
>     package manager
>     2. Debian - Any version with a lightweight desktop should work
>     3. Debian unstable derivatives based on Debian unstable. Seems there
>     were a lot, the only issue
>     was some like antix were 32 bit, but it now seems to have a 64 bit
>     version. They recommend 256
>     mems  of ram and I was able to open like 3 "normal tabs without
>     hitting
>     swap in firefox with that.
>     Idles between 0 and 3% of a single core from a i5 2500K at 4.2 Ghz
>     in a
>     VM. Rarely hits 3 percent
>     at idle, through mostly its a flat 0% to 1% usage. Even on that
>     amount
>     of hardware it was
>     surprisingly fast. And yes it can probably run YouTube 1080p on a
>     Pentium 4 with enough ram,
>     didn't try through.
>     https://antixlinux.com/
>
>     Debian or Arch would be best if your using GPU packages as those
>     would
>     be in either AUR, the
>     user Arch repo probably or another non distribution repo for Debian.
>
>     Also to my knowledge outside of Nvidia and a few ARM vendors most
>     GPUs
>     are upstreamed in
>     Mesa these days. The problem is that Nvidia has been the only real
>     choice in the high end due
>     to it performing better there  for the last few years, there are
>     rumors
>     of Intel building
>     discrete cards through:
>     https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-xe-graphics-all-we-know
>
>     Maybe that helps some people as I forget to mention this yesterday,
>     Nick
>
>     -- 
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>     if there is something that it is like to be that
>     organism--something it is like for the organism. - Thomas Nagel
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