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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.
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Steam ending support for Ubuntu over 32-bit compatibility
(Score: 3, Insightful) by KilroySmith on Tuesday June 25 2019, @08:57PM (1 child)
Speaking of looking dumb, my home machine is an AMD Phenom II x4 with 8 GB of RAM (amazing how little that spec has changed in the decade) which happens to be 10 years old, running Windows 7 64-bit. And it runs just fine, except for the odd slowdown on Firefox on occasion and the length of time it takes to encode an MP3/Movie. So get offa my lawn.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 27 2019, @08:12PM
"running Windows 7 64-bit"
OMG, WTF, LOL