<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">specifically. from the cited threads in the list.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">- Users who need support for i386 integrated natively into their OS can use<br> Ubuntu 18.04 with security support until April 2023.<br>- 18.04 can be run in a chroot or container on top of later Ubuntu releases<br> until 2023 with security support from Canonical, or beyond that without.<br>- 32-bit software distributed as snaps built with an 18.04-derived library<br> runtime can reasonably[1] be expected to work on later releases of Ubuntu<br> for the foreseeable future<br>- Once we're past the point where security support is available for the<br> libraries anyway, maybe there's no advantage anymore to having your 32-bit<br> compat libraries managed via the packaging system either; so maybe you<br> just make /lib/i386-linux-gnu a straight unpacked tarball of the libs you<br> need, and no longer have to worry about the version-lockstep constraints<br> of multiarch.<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 9:18 PM Matthew Crews <<a href="mailto:mailinglists@mattcrews.com">mailinglists@mattcrews.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">For those that haven't seen it, Ubuntu 19.10 and derivatives are going<br>
to end official x86 32-bit support. This is not just the end of 32-bit<br>
ISOs though; they are also removing ALL 32-bit packages from their repos.<br>
<br>
<a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2019-June/000245.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2019-June/000245.html</a><br>
<br>
This will have serious ramifications for those that use Ubuntu and want<br>
to use 32-bit software, device drivers, and the like.<br>
<br>
For now the best options appear to be:<br>
<br>
1. Run your software in a VM, chroot, snap, or container<br>
2. Stay on Ubuntu 18.04 or earlier and do not upgrade<br>
3. Use a different OS altogether.<br>
<br>
I'm opting to phase Ubuntu out completely personally.<br>
<br>
-Matt<br>
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