Once upon a time, Always Learning centos@u62.u22.net said:
Hopefully ? there is a Linux capable of providing conventional facilities on old, but working, 32-bit desktop and portable equipment which could be given to the needy people.
CentOS 6 didn't just disappear; it should still get updates through 2020 IIRC (by which time most of the 32 bit only hardware will probably have died). Just because the latest-greatest came out doesn't mean you have to upgrade to it.