<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">I suspect it is lazy development teams using legacy/32 bit code to save time/money. IE ain't broke, dont need to change, Leave it. When I was doing system integration in 2006/2008 there were still people using TSX32 and looking for compatible hardware because they didn't want to recode for another OS.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 11:37 AM Steve Litt <<a href="mailto:slitt@troubleshooters.com">slitt@troubleshooters.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">On Wed, 19 Jun 2019 21:48:08 -0700<br>
Stephen Partington <<a href="mailto:cryptworks@gmail.com" target="_blank">cryptworks@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<br>
> specifically. from the cited threads in the list.<br>
> <br>
> - Users who need support for i386 integrated natively into their OS<br>
> can use 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<br>
> releases until 2023 with security support from Canonical, or beyond<br>
> that without.<br>
> - 32-bit software distributed as snaps built with an 18.04-derived<br>
> library runtime can reasonably[1] be expected to work on later<br>
> releases of Ubuntu for the foreseeable future<br>
> - Once we're past the point where security support is available for<br>
> the libraries anyway, maybe there's no advantage anymore to having<br>
> your 32-bit compat libraries managed via the packaging system either;<br>
> so maybe you just make /lib/i386-linux-gnu a straight unpacked<br>
> tarball of the libs you need, and no longer have to worry about the<br>
> version-lockstep constraints of multiarch.<br>
<br>
Does anybody know what percentage of computers still being used<br>
worldwide have 32 bit hardware? My research tells me the last 32 bit<br>
desktops were made around 2003, and 32 bit laptops around 2009. I know<br>
all my 32 bit hardware broke long ago: I have several circa 2008<br>
computers still running, but they're 64 bit. My two 2006 laptops and<br>
one 2008 laptop are all 64bit.<br>
<br>
Are a lot of people in poorer areas of the world still using 32 bit<br>
equipment? Or is a 32 bit computer more like an antique thing now?<br>
<br>
SteveT<br>
<br>
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