[ale] Ubuntu Dropping all 32-bit Releases from 19.10 forward

Chuck Payne terrorpup at gmail.com
Tue Jun 18 15:37:44 EDT 2019


Not sure why the ?? But yes Tumbleweed has 64-bit, 32-bit, arm and power pc.

Yes I been a member of openSUSE since 2008.

On Tue, Jun 18, 2019, 3:15 PM Jeff Hubbs via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> Gentoo won't leave you hanging either, at least not for now. The default
> x86_64 (called "amd64" architecture just because AMD beat Intel to market)
> profile still has 32-bit libs present (useful for WINE, IIRC) but you can
> select a -nomultilib profile and it'll whack 'em to leave you straight-up
> 64-bit all around. I still have a couple of 32-bitters in my rack at home
> that run fine.
>
> On 6/18/19 2:57 PM, Chuck Payne via Ale wrote:
>
> For now you can get 32-Bit from openSUSE Tumbleweed.??
>
> On Tue, Jun 18, 2019 at 2:48 PM DJ-Pfulio via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/06/ubuntu-is-dropping-all-32-bit-support-going-forward
>>
>>
>> 18.04 LTS is the last 32-bit release.
>>
>> 19.10 will not have any 32-bit support. Zero.
>>
>> No 32-bit upgrade from prior releases.
>>
>> "Ubuntu say maintaining packages for the i386 architecture is more
>> hassle than its worth"
>>
>> BTW, they really dropped i686 support for non-Intel/AMD systems, since
>> many of the specialty CPUs didn't include all the instructions that i686
>> Intel CPUs did, but were still used by the Ubuntu kernels.
>>
>> Anyone interested in a PentiumM laptop?
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