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SOLARIS

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From: Europe

Registered: 2023-06-29

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I looking old 386 verisons Arch Linux

Hello, I was looking for old versions of Arch Linux 32 bit

I have few old computers:

- PENTIUM 200 MHZ / RAM 64 MB

- CELERON 433 MHZ / RAM 64 MB

- CELERON 600 MHZ  / RAM 128 MB

- CELERON 800 MHZ / RAM 512

- AMD ATHLON XP CPU 1,115 MHZ / RAM 2 GB

- PENTIUM IV CPU 1,2 MHZ / RAM 2 GB

I just want to give a second life to these legendary computers.

So, I will ask if someone can give me links to old archive versions,  32 bit. Thanks in advance!

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abaumann

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Re: I looking old 386 verisons Arch Linux

All those machines look they would run with the i686 or pentium4 subarchitecture.

We support what is described on https://www.archlinux32.org/architecture/.

There is an archive on https://archive.archlinux32.org. The problem with the
archive is that there is no easy way to find a point in time where all packages are
fitting together.

i386 was never a thing for Archlinux, even when it was still supporting 32-bit. i486 is
the minimal requirement by the Linux kernel since 3.8.

In theory (that is current build issues aside), all current Archlinux32 versions should
run on those old machines. The bigger issue is usually graphic support depending
on the video card.