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

[Jim Kinney]

Lucky me I still kept my RISC gear, too - oh, wait...
On Tue, 2019-06-18 at 20:58 +0000, Lightner, Jeffrey via Ale wrote:
> One of the things that annoyed me back when we started moving from
> HP-UX to Linux was how many things (hardware and applications)
> on  Linux and intel based systems still relied on 32 bit years after
> UNIX variants had all gone to 64 bit RISC.
> Luckily Itanium came along to save the day - oh wait...
> 
> -----Original Message-----From: Ale <ale-bounces at ale.org> On Behalf
> Of DJ-Pfulio via AleSent: Tuesday, June 18, 2019 4:10 PMTo: 
> ale at ale.org
> Subject: Re: [ale] Ubuntu Dropping all 32-bit Releases from 19.10
> forward
> 
> There isn't any hurry to leave Ubuntu. 18.04 support goes until mid-
> 2023.
> Ubuntu people are likely to move to a debian-based solution to stay
> in the same family with APT if they don't just swap HW. 32-bit HW is
> pretty old at this point.
> 
> 
> On 6/18/19 3:37 PM, Chuck Payne via Ale wrote:
> > 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
> > <mailto: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
> > >     <mailto:ale at ale.org>> wrote:
> > >         
> > > https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/06/ubuntu-is-dropping-all-32-bit-sup
> > > port-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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