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Hi everyone,

is easyOS working only on a 64 bit machines ?

Down the page >> https://easyos.org/about/how-and-why-ea ... erent.html

Semme wrote:Down the page >> https://easyos.org/about/how-and-why-ea ... erent.html

thanks for the link, I have already checked the site but I old find the 64 bit version and it is not even an iso, I have no idea what .img.gz means. this can be found on this link

https://distro.ibiblio.org/easyos/amd64 ... ter/2.3.1/

https://easyos.org/tag_install.html

In theory, as Easy is built from WoofQ, it can use any binary packages, i686 for example. However, each architecture requires time and effort to support, so Easy releases are only x86_64 and aarch64 builds. In the latter case, may target RPi3&4 and Rock64 boards.

http://ftp.nluug.nl/ftp/pub/os/Linux/di ... readme.htm

Semme wrote:https://easyos.org/tag_install.html

In theory, as Easy is built from WoofQ, it can use any binary packages, i686 for example. However, each architecture requires time and effort to support, so Easy releases are only x86_64 and aarch64 builds. In the latter case, may target RPi3&4 and Rock64 boards.

http://ftp.nluug.nl/ftp/pub/os/Linux/di ... readme.htm

so it wont wonk on my i686 machine right? is it also the case regarding easupup? it is a derivative from easyos

Correct. For "easupup" which must be a typo, provide a link.

Oh, EasyPup! Hold on... Yes, 64b arch only.

so both will not work on this i686 machine then.

thanks semme for the info.

Not suggesting you should try this, but, a possibly interesting Q & A for you to peruse:

https://unix.stackexchange.com/question ... ntu-system

EasyPup is an .iso, which can be burnt to a CD or DVD so you can try it out (without installing it in the hard disk) in any machine that has an optical drive and can boot from it. Also, there are ways to "install" EasyPup to a USB flash drive, for machines that can boot from USB.

Flash wrote:EasyPup is an .iso, which can be burnt to a CD or DVD so you can try it out (without installing it in the hard disk) in any machine that has an optical drive and can boot from it. Also, there are ways to "install" EasyPup to a USB flash drive, for machines that can boot from USB.

Just tried it and it does not support i686 cpu even with forcepae command. thanks for the suggestion.