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Ubuntu Backtracks on Removing 32-Bit Compatibility

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

takyon writes:

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: 3, Funny) by epitaxial on Tuesday June 25 2019, @07:25PM (4 children)

    by epitaxial (3165) on Tuesday June 25 2019, @07:25PM (#859814)

    An Atom processor netbook? You must be a glutton for punishment. Those were terrible when they were new. You still using tallow candles and doing laundry down by the creek?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 25 2019, @07:40PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 25 2019, @07:40PM (#859818)

    Who said it was Atom? Arm 64 wasn't a thing when ARM based netbooks were (briefly) popular.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 25 2019, @07:43PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 25 2019, @07:43PM (#859820)

      Nice try but Devuan doesn't have an ARM port.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 28 2019, @09:05PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 28 2019, @09:05PM (#861118)

        I don't know what other processors they run on, but they definitely have an armhf port, and I am pretty sure an arm soft float port, plus aarch64, the majority of the packages mirrored or built from Debian's repositories.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 25 2019, @08:00PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 25 2019, @08:00PM (#859833)

    They were cheap and ran Linux. Probably still have better performance than an Raspberry Pi. Know of anything better in that class that Google doesn't own?