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Okay, here we go:
This is running on an open hardware platform on RISC-V (no x86, no arm64).
This is running on an open hardware platform on RISC-V (no x86, no arm64).
For reasons unknown, MX wouldn't run on this machine when I tried it the other day, hence the install of Antix. However, as these are very closely-related distros, I flashed a new copy of the 32-bit MX installer and tried again, et voila! Not nearly as lightweight as Antix, but still not exactly greedy. Will likely keep this OS on the Macbook.
Hardware: DELL Latitude E6540 and Intel® Core™ i7-4610M CPU @ 3.70GHz
Software: ALT KWorkstation 10, EXT4, Mesa and KDE Plasma
MacBook 2,1 has a 32 bit bootloader but it's a 64 bit machine. So, you need one of those builds which can do this. Same thing we discussed on previous page.
Here are some ready made options, not all might work with your machine so you might need to try few. You can also make your own.
Yes, I did try, but to no avail. 32-bit MX did the trick also, which I prefer to Antix.
NeXTSTEP running Firefox.
(jk it's Debian running GNUStep)
(jk it's Debian running GNUStep)
Dang !! I've mx on both my iMacs..Tis noticeably slower on my iMac 5.1.. and was thinking I should try antix again. Didn't think of trying 32 bit mx - thank you.
The only issue I've had is lack of fan control..overheated when streaming a movie ..so installed mbpfan to up the fan speed and Psensor to provide a temp display.
I found mx has a pre install menu making some of the iMac issues easier to sort.
New-to-me Whitebook, runs this well in 2GB, which for the moment, is all it will take.
A couple of months ago the 2010 27" iMac I gave my dad finally died. The SSD I put in it many years ago failed. I bought him a new Mac mini to replace it.
I took the iMac home with no real idea what to do with it. The hardware of it is fine and I hate to trash it. So today I decided to put Arch Linux on it. Super easy.
I still don't know what to do with the machine, but at least it has life again.
I took the iMac home with no real idea what to do with it. The hardware of it is fine and I hate to trash it. So today I decided to put Arch Linux on it. Super easy.
I still don't know what to do with the machine, but at least it has life again.
Yeah. Already have three Linux boxes serving as media servers.
Never paid much attention to this thread before, but looking at your post I thought: that looks like a neofetch screenshot! So here's something different... 
Inexpensive HOTWAV rugged Android tablet running Termux. Why would anyone do that? Good question. I have developed a complex mapping/GPS web app and was using it on my 2018 cellular iPad. I never got a real data plan for that iPad and AT&T discontinued the prepaid plans I had used in the past. Long story short... I gave up.
But I had this idea... why not put my web app on a tablet/phone and run a local server? There doesn't seem to be any practical way to do that on an iPad (I tried). But there are a variety of ways to run linux on Android devices and I settled on Termux. It's not native Linux - you can't access the whole filesystem and it's running as an Android app. But performance is surprisingly good, I would even say it's fast when serving from internal storage. But I needed much more disk space, so I'm using a 1tb SD card which is slower, but about the same as a cellular connection.
There are issues but it works good enough for me in the car running locally with no wifi or cellular data. I also have a few inexpensive rugged Android phones running this way. Took some time to determine/install all the packages I needed and configure the server with SSL. Made lots of notes during the process because I could never remember it all!
I was an early adopter of Red Hat Linux over 20 years ago and ran our company's mail and website on a local machine back then. I also manage a fair sized cloud server for my web app on AlmaLinux. But I never had much interest in Linux as a desktop environment.
Inexpensive HOTWAV rugged Android tablet running Termux. Why would anyone do that? Good question. I have developed a complex mapping/GPS web app and was using it on my 2018 cellular iPad. I never got a real data plan for that iPad and AT&T discontinued the prepaid plans I had used in the past. Long story short... I gave up.
But I had this idea... why not put my web app on a tablet/phone and run a local server? There doesn't seem to be any practical way to do that on an iPad (I tried). But there are a variety of ways to run linux on Android devices and I settled on Termux. It's not native Linux - you can't access the whole filesystem and it's running as an Android app. But performance is surprisingly good, I would even say it's fast when serving from internal storage. But I needed much more disk space, so I'm using a 1tb SD card which is slower, but about the same as a cellular connection.
There are issues but it works good enough for me in the car running locally with no wifi or cellular data. I also have a few inexpensive rugged Android phones running this way. Took some time to determine/install all the packages I needed and configure the server with SSL. Made lots of notes during the process because I could never remember it all!
I was an early adopter of Red Hat Linux over 20 years ago and ran our company's mail and website on a local machine back then. I also manage a fair sized cloud server for my web app on AlmaLinux. But I never had much interest in Linux as a desktop environment.
Close, but it is Fastfetch. Neofetch is no longer in development and most *nix users are using Fastfetch now.
Here it is on the newest of a few cheap rugged Android phones that I use for testing. But this is a screenshot from Terminal on my Mac with an ssh connection over wifi to the phone (because it's just too hard to type on the phone!). I can also use my app in browsers on other devices with a wifi connection to the server on the Android phone/tablet.
