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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 JoeMerchant on Tuesday June 25 2019, @09:28PM (1 child)

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Tuesday June 25 2019, @09:28PM (#859861)

    You've got a rare gem, then, and they do exist. For the most part, the 32 bit era notebooks were bigger and heavier than their modern (and 64 bit) counterparts. Keep it until it won't run anymore. I usually get frustrated with the old notebooks when the batteries die and the cost of replacing them is >40% of the cost of a new and much more attractive notebook.

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  • (Score: 2) by Pino P on Wednesday June 26 2019, @02:45AM

    by Pino P (4721) on Wednesday June 26 2019, @02:45AM (#859967) Journal

    Which modern x86-64 laptop has a 9 to 10 inch screen and doesn't have glaring flaws in its X11/Linux compatibility comparable to those of an ASUS T100TA [debian.org]? The smallest ones I could find in stores over the past few years were 11.6", like the Dell Inspiron 11 3000 series that I ended up settling for. It has a quad-core Pentium N3710 CPU, where Pentium N (now called Pentium Silver) is an improved version of Atom. You could probably find some used 10.1" Atom netbook made in 2010 or thereabouts, such as a Dell Inspiron mini 1012, but those have two drawbacks. First, they're so old that their lithium ion batteries no longer hold a charge, and fresh replacement rechargeable battery packs for them are hard to find. Second, a lot of them have 1 DIMM slot that won't take modules larger than 2 GB, making use of 64-bit applications alongside 32-bit applications a swapfest.