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Linux 32-bit Installers Archive Added to This Site Summary: Linux ISOs for 32-bit x86 and 32-bit PPC have been added to this site. This post details the rationale for this nearly unlikely add to this site. Post Body: As recently detailed in several earlier posts, I have been working on recovering a 3 GHz Pentium IV computer that had begun to behave in erraticly. Ultimately I tracked the source of the erratic behaviour down to blown capacitors on the motherboard, but along the way the perfectly hand-tuned installation of Arch Linux 2007 (code named "Dont Panic") that had been the prime environment on this machine got corrupted. When I went looking for a replacement installer so that I could rebuild it when I had stabilized the machine, I discovered much to my distress that such an installer is no longer anywhere to be found - Arch now only supports 64-bit. This turned out be a quasi-general truth - there are very few Linux distros still available for 32-bit machines. Like so many other software packages however, it turns out that I have saved all the installers for all of the Linux distros that I have ever installed and used. That includes various versions of Arch, SuSE Linux, Vector Linux 5.1 and many more. In the spirit of this site, since many of these installers are no longer available because they have become too old to be considered valuable to their authors, I have decided to add them, plus a few current ones, to a new Linux archive on this site. There are distro-specific limitations of course. Some of these distros are older... not current and not effective on the modern web, or with modern emails (very little difference in some cases between email content and web content). Some of these distros are current however, such as the seemingly misnamed (these days) Damn Small Linux, which is no longer "damn small", but is still a very good distro. Gentoo PPC falls into this camp as well... current and quite useful. To use these installers, simply download them, burn them to CD or DVD (depending on their size) and then boot the target PC from the resulting CD/DVD. A bit of site housekeeping. The retro-computing.com main web page has run out of archive icon space and so the Linux archive's icon has replaced the Unarchive Tools icon. Don't worry however; you can still get to the Unarchive Tools archive. Simply open the "Unarchiving Software Titles" pinned post and click the included Unarchive Tools link.