Ubuntu Is Killing 32-Bit Desktop Images

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anikin
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Ubuntu Is Killing 32-Bit Desktop Images

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Ubuntu Is Dropping 32-bit Desktop Images

This news affects users of live CDs mostly

If you were hoping to download Ubuntu 17.10 32-bit come its release next month we’ve some bad news to give you.

Ubuntu is dropping 32-bit builds of Ubuntu desktop entirely as of Ubuntu 17.10

Canonical’s Dimitri John Ledkov has asked the Ubuntu release team to “action

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bigpup
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#2 Post by bigpup »

Had to happen sometime!

Even Puppy is slowly moving to only 64bit versions.
Key word SLOOOOWLY!!
The things they do not tell you, are usually the clue to solving the problem.
When I was a kid I wanted to be older.... This is not what I expected :shock:
YaPI(any iso installer)

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#3 Post by bark_bark_bark »

bigpup wrote:Had to happen sometime!

Even Puppy is slowly moving to only 64bit versions.
Key word SLOOOOWLY!!
taking even longer for puppy to be multi-user. Not everybody can or SHOULD be root on the same machine
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bark_bark_bark wrote: taking even longer for puppy to be multi-user. Not everybody can or SHOULD be root on the same machine
I give my PC to friends booting puppy with a lonely ad-hoc encrypted savefile using only my adrv.sfs.

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