LXLE Support?

[vector3]

I have an LXLE Intel Atom N270 laptop that I need assistance with. That forum no longer exists yet I prefer this lightweight distribution if I can still use it. I am having difficulty updating it but may need to ask if I should migrate to another distribution. Please advise.lxle

[tea for one]

It seems that the LXLE website has been withdrawn, so I imagine that the project is non-operational now.
Your PC - is it 32 bit only?
If so, you will have a limited choice of distributions.
Both Peppermint and Antix still offer 32 bit systems.

[vector3]

Yes, the Intel Atom N270 is a 32-bit cpu. It appears Debian may be one of my better choices for a new OS.

[him610]

Yes, the Intel Atom N270 is a 32-bit cpu. It appears Debian may be one of my better choices for a new OS.

Yes, I have an Acer A110L ZG5 with Atom N270. I think Bios date is 2008. I have installed Debian 32 on mine; however, RAM has been upgraded to 1.5 GB and SSD upgraded to 32 GB. It still runs good, just a little slow.

You might want to check out bunsenlabs.org as they still offer a 32 bit iso based on debian, and
raspberrypi.com provides a 32bit Debian with Raspberry Pi Desktop for PCs

Raspberry Pi Desktop
Compatible with:

PC and Mac
Debian Bullseye with Raspberry Pi Desktop
Release date: July 1st 2022
System: 32-bit
Kernel version: 5.10
Debian version: 11 (bullseye)
Size: 3,440MB
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[howefield]

Thread moved to the "Ubuntu/Debian BASED" forum.

[ajgreeny]

I have Debian 12 running, slowly, but running, on a netbook with the 32 bit N270 CPU and just 1G RAM.

There is no chance of it running current versions of Firefox, Thunderbird, or large applications such as LibreOffice, Gimp etc, and you will I believe be constrained in many ways and need to use for example, abiword and gnumeric which require far lower resources.

However, if it works well enough for you I wish you the best of luck with it

[guiverc]

My old asus eepc with n270 & 1gb of RAM used to run Lubuntu when Ubuntu provided support for i386 which that old CPU is, but I switched to Debian GNU/Linux myself.

I can't recall which release I'm using, but I know the install is multi-desktop with me selecting which desktop/WM I'll use at login (just as I did when it run Ubuntu), selecting so I get maximum performance out of the slow-CPU and limited-RAM based on what I'll do in the session (often its WM or window manager only; no desktop)

Debian offers two installers, the really old debian-installer plus calamares, and I can't recall which I had to use (calamares requires more RAM being run on a live system), but even if you needed to use the di installer (which can operate on hardware with only 384MB of RAM) I'd just install Debian, rather than a Debian-based system.

[ajgreeny]

I think that I used the Debian-installer option, not the GUI version but it is pretty self-explanatory and not difficult to use so give it a try, and choose the net-install.iso file which allows you to choose which DE or just Window Manager to install.

[vector3]

I have enjoyed both LXLE and Bodhi for my N270 Eee PC's but Free BSD and Debian have made clear statements that they are reallocating resources the ARM[67] as this is the only viable i386 platform still being used in sufficient nukbers by hardware manufacturers. I will be happy to donate both of my Asus 1000H netbooks if someone want them. One of mine has 2GB RAM the other only 1GB.

[vector3]

Thanks for the referral to Bunsen Labs. This looks like a useful reference.