Linuxmusician01 wrote:
Considering 32 bit support from the AV Linux distribution. Quote from their hom page:
AV Linux 2019.4.10 has been released. This release [...] will mark the last release based on Debian Stretch and sadly it will also be the last release of the 32bit version.
I would think that's a reason to get it while you can. Your definition of 'support' seems a bit different from mine. If a distro works, you don't need support. I think you mean there's no upgrade path. Are you really surprised that that is the case for 32 bit hardware?
Linuxmusician01 wrote:Gps wrote:I wonder if you can't find a few memory banks, to have 2 gig at least or 4 gig.
I don't think that's really needed. And if he upgrades the memory in this machine then the CPU will be the bottleneck.
Kind of weird to recommend someone
doesn't get more RAM. The reason to have more than 1GB is to stop the swap space being used. You mentioned above that a web browser was slow on your machine with 1GB. That's probably because the swap space was being used. The difference between swap and no swap is like night and day.
You could check using
free. Here's mine :
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$ free
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 11262716 986392 9472616 47368 803708 10096904
Swap: 12286972 0 12286972
Here it is without firefox :
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$ free
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 11262716 264780 10241320 804 756616 10865040
Swap: 12286972 0 12286972
265 MB, damnit, I'll have to get rid of some stuff
You want the CPU to be the 'bottleneck' as it's faster than memory or disk.
IMHO