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janrinok
on Sunday February 05 2017, @07:31PM
from the diminished-user-base-on-old-boxes dept.
from the diminished-user-base-on-old-boxes dept.
The privacy-centric TAILS Linux distro (The Amnesic Incognito Live System) announces:
Tails 3.0 will require a 64-bit x86-64 compatible processor. As opposed to older versions of Tails, it will not work on 32-bit processors.
We have waited for years until we felt it was the right time to do this switch. Still, this was a hard decision for us to make.
[...] Our current goal is to release Tails 3.0, and stop supporting computers with a 32-bit processor, on June 13, 2017.
Announced February 1: Tails 2.10 is out.
The site's news page (which could REALLY use #FragmentIdentifiers MUCH more effectively) says:
Tails 2.11 is scheduled for March 3rd.
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(Score: 2) by takyon on Sunday February 05 2017, @08:50PM
TAILS is an OS with a bunch of bundled software, and much of that bundled software is likely moving to 64-bit only. Do you want the TAILS developers to maintain their own forks of Firefox, Tor, I2P, etc.?
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(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 05 2017, @09:14PM
That's what this means; it's as simple as that. The world is run on very poorly designed software. Period. Full Stop.