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posted by janrinok on Sunday February 05 2017, @07:31PM   Printer-friendly
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 MichaelDavidCrawford on Sunday February 05 2017, @11:39PM

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Sunday February 05 2017, @11:39PM (#463221) Homepage Journal

    even if the source code is 32/64-bit clean, you have to test the built product. If nothing else there could be code generation bugs in the compiler. I've actually seen these in my work.

    It's a lot of labor to test a product as large and complex as TAILS. It's reasonable that they want to focus their effort where it is the most effective.

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