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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: 2) by KilroySmith on Monday February 06 2017, @12:20AM

    by KilroySmith (2113) on Monday February 06 2017, @12:20AM (#463233)

    So, do you have any experience at all with writing and maintaining an OS, as opposed to, say, an end-of-term project for your sophomore year?

    Didn't think so.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 06 2017, @02:11AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 06 2017, @02:11AM (#463260)

    Thanks for asking.