On 06/05/2017 11:15 AM, Fred Smith wrote: > On Mon, Jun 05, 2017 at 10:31:10AM -0400, m.roth@xxxxxxxxx wrote: >> I've got an old HP Netbook, which is just fine for taking with when I'm >> travelling, to check email and news. I have a very old Ubuntu >> netbook-remix on it, and it really, *really* needs to be updated to >> something current. I, of course, would prefer CentOS.... >> >> The question is: I see that *if* the specs I just looked up (I'm at work, >> not home, where I could just turn it on, but they sound right) Atom N270 >> CPU, 2G RAM, 160GB drive - what should I put on it, C6 or C7? Upgrading >> the memory's not going to happen, so it's got to live with that size. >> >> Opinions (please, no flame wars), just what will be most responsive on a >> machine this small? > > I think the Atom N270 is a 32-bit processor, no? > > that means either no C7, or you will have to use the unofficial 32-bit > build, and I don't know if it is being kept up to date. > > > also, 3rd-party repositories (epel, et al) aren't offering 32-bit > packages for C7, either, so if you depend on any of them for packages > you really care about (e.g., I can't use gnome-3.x, I use epel's > Mate Desktop packages) you'll be stuck. > We have an i386 version of CentOS-7 from the altarch SIG: https://wiki.centos.org/SpecialInterestGroup/AltArch/i386 It should theoretically work with that processor .. at least one could test it and see.
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