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posted by chromas on Tuesday June 25 2019, @03:19PM   Printer-friendly
from the hold-your-horses dept.

Ubuntu Compromises on 32-Bit App Support

Canonical, the developer of Ubuntu, has backtracked on an earlier announcement that Ubuntu 19.10 will no longer update 32-bit packages and applications, announcing today that Ubuntu 19.10 and 20.04 will support select 32-bit apps.

The news follows Valve and the developers of Wine, an open source compatibility layer for running Windows apps on other operating systems, saying they would stop supporting Ubuntu completely.

[...] In response, Canonical said it will work with select developers of 32-bit apps to ensure these apps continue to work on Ubuntu 19.10 and 20.04. However, these apps may only work under more stringent requirements, such as running them in Ubuntu containers, something that may not appease Steam and Wine developers.

Long-term, Canonical still thinks 32-bit apps need to go, since most are not updated and present a security risk.

Also at Engadget and ZDNet.

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  • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Tuesday June 25 2019, @04:29PM

    by Freeman (732) on Tuesday June 25 2019, @04:29PM (#859767) Journal

    I would say Tiny Core Linux is as small as you could feasibly get and still have a real OS. It's by no means user-friendly in my opinion, though. Whereas, Puppy Linux is generally designed to "Just Work" and is much easier for a newb / Windows or Apple Refugee to get into.

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