Linux distros are dropping 32-bit support left and right The Manjaro team, another Linux distro, is scheduled to drop support for 32-bit architectures altogether by the end of November 2017. "The ...
D evuan, a Linux distribution with a goal of offering a reliable alternative to Debian Linux without systemd, announced this ...
One of the things you often hear from fans of GNU/Linux is that Linux distributions can provide new life to old computers that aren’t powerful enough to run modern versions of Windows. But it seems ...
Seven years ago, Linus Torvalds dropped "ancient-386-CPUs" support from the Linux kernel, dismissing it with "good riddance." While 32-bit Linux lingered on, it was no longer part of Linux's ...
If you're reading this on a PC running Windows, it's almost certainly a 64-bit version of the operating system. It also supports 32-bit applications, which is why so many old games will run on it, but ...
At the time of writing, the Linux Mint project is still to announce the release of Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) 4 but if you check out mirror services, you can grab the new version right now. The ...
AMD and Intel released the first 64-bit CPUs for consumers back in 2003 and 2004. Now, more than a decade later, Linux distributions are looking at winding down support for 32-bit hardware. Google ...
If you purchased your computer in the last decade, it probably has a 64-bit-capable processor. The transition to 64-bit operating systems has been a long one, but Google is about to give Linux users ...
With the announcement of LibreOffice 6.3 Beta 1, the open source office suite has stopped providing 32-bit binaries for the Linux platform although 32-bit compatibility has not yet been removed from ...