The result is tiny enough to be realistically usable on a 32-bit machine, as this vulture is old enough to feel Linux jolly well ought to be, even in this age of Javascript-based desktops that ...

The rationale was the same a few years ago when distributions like Arch Linux decided to drop support for 32-bit hardware entirely. Maintainers had noticed the drop-off in downloads for the 32-bit ...

There was a time when the gulf between a new computer and one a decade or more old was so large as to be insurmountable; when a Pentium was the chip to have an older computer had a 16-bit 8086 or 286.