In April, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS will be deprecated, leaving users of 32-bit (i386) machines without security updates. Numerous other mainstream distros have discontinued 32-bit support.
Do our Linux users have any suggestions for a lightweight distro that will run on a 32-bit laptop and be supported for at least the next several years? The machine is used primarily for ASR posts, messing around with Python and syncing a music server to a backup system via SFTP.
(Suggestions that the machine be replaced with something that has a 64-bit processor will be ignored; this machine has advantages (including an easily removable battery) that my more recent laptops have lacked. This machine has been running more than 50% of the time since it was purchased in July 2006. When it still had reasonable specs, I used it for high-resolution multitrack recording. The original hard drive still works, too.)
Do our Linux users have any suggestions for a lightweight distro that will run on a 32-bit laptop and be supported for at least the next several years? The machine is used primarily for ASR posts, messing around with Python and syncing a music server to a backup system via SFTP.
(Suggestions that the machine be replaced with something that has a 64-bit processor will be ignored; this machine has advantages (including an easily removable battery) that my more recent laptops have lacked. This machine has been running more than 50% of the time since it was purchased in July 2006. When it still had reasonable specs, I used it for high-resolution multitrack recording. The original hard drive still works, too.)