On 01/15/2015 02:56 AM, PatrickD Garvey wrote: > [...] > > I want to use CentOS to explore the aspects of operating systems that > I was not allowed to explore with a proprietary system. I had a couple > of 32-bit machines I intended to make into my lab, but the Linux > community seems to have moved on to 64-bit images. If the microprocessors you have were built this decade, they probably support PAE in which case CentOS 6 should run just fine. I am in the process of [slowly] phasing out 8..12 yrs old machines which still run quite happily CentOS5 and I am deploying C6 on their replacements. In other news, the new procs have much lower power consumption so beyond offering access to a larger set of applications, new systems pay themselves via saved energy