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TAILS 3.0 Will Require a 64-Bit Processor

posted by janrinok on Sunday February 05 2017, @07:31PM   Printer-friendly
from the diminished-user-base-on-old-boxes dept.

-- OriginalOwner_ writes:

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: 1) by Burz on Sunday February 05 2017, @10:02PM

    by Burz (6156) on Sunday February 05 2017, @10:02PM (#463197)

    There is older 64bit hardware without IME.

    TAILS doesn't want the burden of maintaining their own EOL 32bit apps. And look at Qubes OS... no 32bit support at all.

  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by cykros on Sunday February 05 2017, @10:36PM

    by cykros (989) on Sunday February 05 2017, @10:36PM (#463206)

    Qubes OS is an entirely different use case system. Often, a privacy oriented system is used to do very little beyond upload some files, send some emails, or other communication where paranoid privacy is absolutely called for. As such, a system with very low resources, such as an older 32 bit machine, is entirely reasonable.

    Qubes OS otoh aims to be a virtualization platform that facilitates the running of many discrete operating systems. Naturally, this is fairly resource intensive. Even attempting to run this type of system on an older 32 bit system would be a hobbyist exercise at best, much like those who get C64's up on the Internet in the 21st century.

    You're comparing apples to oranges.

    • (Score: 2) by butthurt on Monday February 06 2017, @02:13AM

      by butthurt (6141) on Monday February 06 2017, @02:13AM (#463262) Journal

      Qubes OS otoh aims to be a virtualization platform that facilitates the running of many discrete operating systems.

      Its goal is security, and virtualisation is a means to that. "Security by compartmentalization," they call it.

      https://www.qubes-os.org/intro/ [qubes-os.org]