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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

MX Linux is a nice Debian based distro that still supports 32-bit. Or you could use just Debian.

 

via https://mastodon.social/@hugovk/113385974873569374

hugovk.github.io/free-threaded-wheels/ tracks how many of the top 360 PyPI packages have free-threaded wheels.

Green packages (currently 3%) offer has free-threaded wheels

Uncoloured packages (82%) offer pure-Python wheels

Orange packages (16%) have no wheels ready for free-threading (yet!)

See also Quansight Labs' https://py-free-threading.github.io/tracking/ for a smaller yet fine-grained tracker that also includes build tools.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Python 3.14 Release Schedule: https://peps.python.org/pep-0745/

3.14.0 final: Wednesday, 2025-10-01

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I have spent a lot of time playing GB/GBA games and Advance Wars is among my favorites. I love the "hot potato" mode for playing with a friend with just one device.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Relaunch? I never listened to it’s old run, anyone have thoughts on it?

Django Chat is a great podcast!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Python / FastAPI will be better than Java in your situation and is easy to learn. Go should be even better and is also relatively easy to learn!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

https://mastodon.cloud/@radiac/113096990972136170

Nanodjango 0.8 is out, adding async view and ASGI support. Now you can write async single file scripts that look like Flask or FastAPI, but with all #django features like models, auth, admin etc.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

I own two Raspberries 1, a Raspberry 4 8GB and a Raspberry 5 8GB. I wouldn't recommend the 4 as a full-fledged desktop replacement, but the 5 has been very smooth so far.

I'm currently using the latest Raspberry Pi OS Lite and installed KDE on top.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I was lucky then with the 4 A400 I'm still using. I also have 3 BX500 that have been very reliable.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Kingston A400s and Crucial BXs have been very good as cheap SSDs in my experience.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

I haven't used source-based distros, but I've installed Linux on a couple of older Macs. You will probably need to search for proper drivers for the Webcam and Wifi. Other than, you won't have any mayor problems.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

My own example. I still have an ancient netbook lying around. It runs on an Intel Atom N270, which is only 32bit / i386. It came with Windows XP and I quickly switched to Mint, when it was still supporting 32bit.

I think the last Ubuntu release supporting i386 was 18.04 (around 2018) and all other distros started to drop i386 support after that.

AFAIK Debian is the only major distro still fully supporting i386. And a Debian based distro that still supports i386 is MX Linux. My ancient and crappy netbook is running MX Linux right now.

My 'weird' example. I have a Raspberry 5! It's ARM and very new. It runs its own distro, Raspberry Pi OS (Debian based), and Ubuntu does also fully support it. Right now if you try some other distro, it probably won't even boot unless you start tinkering a lot with it.

So Debian is definitively a choice for very old hardware. And the odd ARM SoC has usually at least some custom Ubuntu build that runs with it.

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