links has a DOS version? neat.

http://links.twibright.com/download.php

What is that?

What is that?

It's BSOD

What is that?

ReactOS is buggy even, developers themselves only recommend testing on virtual machine.

I recommend giving up ReactOS and testing Debian with LXDE or LXqt. And if you need a browser, most likely the links are in the Debian repositories, just give an apt install links as root.

But why the heck does winxp sp2 work flawless on this machine but mate not ... I will try to install any linux with lxde from USB tomorrow,

Hope it is possible to boot from USB any way

Hope it is possible to boot from USB any way

Because Mate requires at least 512 MB of RAM to work fine. Mate already eats almost all of those 256 MB

LXDE and LXqt work less than 100 MB, but I recommend having at least 256 MB for use with the least possible comfort.

ok, usb should be working using a workaround - now what disto? ...what are the choises

or shoudl i stay with debian

Debian is a more recommended distro, for having more people to help you with what is needed. But if you want other recommendations and maybe if you have problems to boot via USB, there is Void Linux, FreeBSD (which is not a Linux distribution, but is very similar to being unix-like), Alpine Linux. They are operating systems with which few are accustomed, but have installers with command line interface that work as give next>next.

I would really aprechiate a arch based as I use manjaro for years now & do not like the Debian based desktops - only for server-side; But anyway a 32 bit variant most important

So an Arch Linux with LXDE would be a good one, even though I believe that Arch Linux should not have drivers for stone age hardware.

So I think too

They dropped 32 bit support for long time as well

I'll try debian - but now happy dreams!

Unix-like operating systems that I'm sure support 32 bit Intel architecture: -Debian -NetBSD -Void Linux -FreeBSD -Gentoo

They dropped 32 bit support for long time as well

Maybe some of these will do. NetBSD is the Unix distro that supports most legacy thing.

https://archlinux32.org/

It's possible to still run Arch, but since a lot of its use comes from AUR (compiling), probably not a great choice for Pentium 3.

Debian's going to be one of the best options for a distro that still supports 32-bit.

Fedora still supports 32-bit too: https://getfedora.org/en/workstation/download/

Fedora and Debian are both excellent options.

i'm amazed how often fedora gets overlooked

Distros aren't really light- or heavy-weight on their own, it's default software packages that can be. Avoid GNOME, KDE, MATE for a 256MB RAM system.

It should be possible to run all of them with a lot of swap, but that will be slooooooow

i'm amazed how often fedora gets overlooked

Fedora has a rough history with pushing out releases without enough polish, and being viewed as a more developer-centric distro and not as user-friendly as Debian.

i've had no issues with roughness in the 1-2 years i've used it so far tbh

i think with debian you're more likely to have problems with everything being so outdated

Unix-like operating systems that I'm sure support 32 bit Intel architecture: -Debian -NetBSD -Void Linux -FreeBSD -Gentoo

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Installing lxde now, let's see...

Installing lxde now, let's see...

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Uhh staslin gonna warn :D - okay :)

Installing lxde now, let's see...

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FreeBSD master race

i'm amazed how often fedora gets overlooked

Most people don't want to use 300 DVDs to install an os

Wut? Fedora doesn't do that

^

I installed Fedora myself before

Some people think that about Debian (it has around 30 DVDs for everything in the repo), but it's still not even close to true there.

FreeBSD master race

I'm not a fan, but I would use it for applications like firewall, file server or trying to install on an old PC if Linux does not work well for driver reasons or something, even for being an option that can also be tried.

I use ReactOS virtualized under Devuan with kvm/virtio/qemu/virt-manager and it works ok. Using a light windows manager as jwm. ReactOS uses little resources 😃

ReactOS 0.4.13 will rock ;D

Most people don't want to use 300 DVDs to install an os

?

why are you using DVDs to install a modern desktop OS?

Because I last tried it 10 years ago

uuh i think things have changed a bit since then

Possibly

That's a funny question to be asking in a ReactOS channel

every major OS is distributed as 1 or more DVD images for installation. Linux and FreeBSD even generate their ISOs in such a way that they work whether you burn it to an actual DVD or cp disc.iso /dev/sdd where /dev/sdd is a USB drive.

Windows is harder to get running from a USB drive but it isn't that bad either.

ReactOS doesn't support USB though, so... :V

Booting from DVD tends to be easier too, you don't normally have to hit any buttons to make it work :P

Windows is harder to get running from a USB drive but it isn't that bad either.

It is not difficult to run a Windows installation image on a USB device. The thing is what is a solid state or magnetic storage device, it can not be formatted as a DVD, because the Windows kernel is not meant to work that way. One thing is that it can be done, instead of writing an ISO directly (as it were in DD), you can mount an ISO and copy the files to the device already formatted in FAT32 or EXFAT. Of course, when finished copying, remove the device safely, otherwise it will corrupt and will go wrong.

I've found it only works with formatting the USB drive as NTFS :P

but yeah, that is more difficult than just cp disc.iso /dev/sdd as would with a Linux install xD

and the only reason the Windows kernel "is not meant to work that way" is because its iso9660 driver cares about what kind of device a iso9660 file system is stored on. Linux's driver does not.

which one is better? fat32 or btfs?

I assume you meant btrfs, and better is highly subjective :P

FAT32 should be far more stable, but btrfs has a lot more features too.

yep, sorry for the typo

FAT32 doesn't have a whole lot going for it in terms of features. With VFAT you get long file names, you get a read-only flag, and the modified, accessed, and creation time stamps. You also have to deal with a 4GiB file size limit

btrfs comes from Linux as a sort of cheapo ZFS clone. Everything is checksummed, and especially (but not only) if you use multiple devices to store it, it has redundancy so any errors in either metadata or actual file data has a chance of being recovered. It has compression support, no effective file size limit, WinBtrfs supports the full set of NTFS attributes and ACLs on top of it (I don't know if ReactOS has any real support for them, though), it has modify, access, and change (not creation) time stamps.

Yeah, despite the msg stub on booting, btrfs seems to be way better.

Great theme

0.4.13 will rock!

what kinda theme is that

It is new one

Inside of reactos

Nightly builds

what kinda theme is that

It's Lunar

seems dull and boring

seems dull and boring

Boring like Ilon Musk is boring?

He has very boring company