@lonewolf Did you see the date on the article about ViaOS? This project was scrapped a long time ago.
There is no problem with signing up with our forum with email using browser. Do you use the browser or app to try to access our forum on Discord?

I thought I'd try one, last time to get ANY info on the status of this distro. I keep searching the web and just found a whole webpage explaining how WattOS is to become ViaOS. What's that supposed to be about? So, is WattOS officially dead then?

As for the crappy Discord thing. It totally sucks. I just now tried to login. I was again hit with a double verification line of crap. First, I was told to check my email as there would be a link to verify. I checked and there was. I clicked the link and was presented with ANOTHER verification that was to be a text message to the phone number I was to enter. Let me say this. If I have to have a damned cell phone to verify my identity for a forum about a Linux distribution FOR A DAMNED COMPUTER, I'm out. Period. I know I'm not the only person that feels the same as I do. I am currently involved in a discussion about this very thing on a REAL Linux forum. The majority of guys seem to agree with me. There is absolutely NO SENSE in a computer distro's forum requiring a phone for verification.

So, either fix the problem, or move the forum back here where it should be. Using a stupid social media site for a distro forum makes absolutely NO sense. It's crap like this that keeps a distro that is already on life support from taking on new life. If you truly care about getting WattOS back to where it once was, start acting like it.

Hi and welcome! Please come join us on Discord! Link on this page: https://www.planetwatt.com/
This is our new forum.

@JBHoren Also the openbox version of SparkyLinux is very easy to use.

I'm gobsmacked! I downloaded the ISO image and created a bootable, live USB drive via unetbootin, only to then discover that it is for an X86_64 CPU. Does WattOS-R12 really not support 32-bit systems? Isn't that a major purpose of WattOS? Admittedly, I might/must have missed the notice, but surely there's room in the Release Notes to mention a system requirement such as this. Please advise.

As Emily Litella used to say, "Never mind." I read a post from May, 2021 in a related thread, and saw that a 64-bit system is a prerequisite for WattOS-R12. How 'bout dat. I previously ran WattOS-R2 on 32-bit hardware, so when I read that -R12 was based on Debian "Bullseye", I figured that -R12 would also support my 32-bit systems. Silly me. Of course, my ASUS 900A (32-bit) currently runs Debian "Bookworm", so my assumption about -R12 was not unfounded. I guess the old adage still holds true: "If it ain't broke, don't 'fix' it."

Good luck!

Answer from Biff on our Discord server...

biff — 22/11/2022 01:26
No definite timeline on a 32bit ISO. Was waiting to see what the demand looked like as most (not all) major OS's have moved on from 32bit. I understand the merits and hardware that needs it, but need to know how much demand before I put the labor into it and maintain it.