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

[Lightner, Jeffrey]

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 Ale
Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2019 4:10 PM
To: 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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