PSA: Ubuntu 19.10 to end x86 32-bit support

[Stephen Partington]

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.

On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 11:37 AM Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com>
wrote:

> On Wed, 19 Jun 2019 21:48:08 -0700
> Stephen Partington <cryptworks at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > specifically. from the cited threads in the list.
> >
> > - Users who need support for i386 integrated natively into their OS
> > can use Ubuntu 18.04 with security support until April 2023.
> > - 18.04 can be run in a chroot or container on top of later Ubuntu
> > releases until 2023 with security support from Canonical, or beyond
> > that without.
> > - 32-bit software distributed as snaps built with an 18.04-derived
> > library runtime can reasonably[1] be expected to work on later
> > releases of Ubuntu for the foreseeable future
> > - Once we're past the point where security support is available for
> > the libraries anyway, maybe there's no advantage anymore to having
> > your 32-bit compat libraries managed via the packaging system either;
> > so maybe you just make /lib/i386-linux-gnu a straight unpacked
> > tarball of the libs you need, and no longer have to worry about the
> > version-lockstep constraints of multiarch.
>
> Does anybody know what percentage of computers still being used
> worldwide have 32 bit hardware? My research tells me the last 32 bit
> desktops were made around 2003, and 32 bit laptops around 2009. I know
> all my 32 bit hardware broke long ago: I have several circa 2008
> computers still running, but they're 64 bit. My two 2006 laptops and
> one 2008 laptop are all 64bit.
>
> Are a lot of people in poorer areas of the world still using 32 bit
> equipment? Or is a 32 bit computer more like an antique thing now?
>
> SteveT
>
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