Ubuntu Developers Continue Talks To Discontinue i386 & PowerPC Images

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Ubuntu Developers Continue Talks To Discontinue i386 & PowerPC Images

Discussed today during the Ubuntu 17.04 Online Summit was the dwindling state of PowerPC (32-bit PPC) and i386 (x86 32-bit) support for Ubuntu and overall Linux for that matter. Images are still being produced but likely for not much longer although the package archives are anticipated to remain...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ubuntu-17.04-PPC-i386-Talk

[brent]

If this frees up resources to improve the maintenance of architectures people actually care about, I'm all for it!

[Staffan]

Yeah 32 bit is pretty much obsolete now. A 32 bit computer typically has 2 GB RAM which isn't very much at all for running a modern desktop.

[mparnaudeau]

That's sad to see that PPC32 is planned to be dropped ... At least, Debian should continue to support PPC64.