Re: 32-bit Linux distros going away

2016-07-01 Thread Richmond
I don't think that's good news at all. One of the premises of Linux is/was that it provided support from machines that got bogged down with systems like Windows ME, XP and Vista as well as extremely under-powered pcs. This basically means that very many machines indeed which are perfectly fu

32-bit Linux distros going away

2016-07-01 Thread Richard Gaskin
Looks like Ubuntu will be joining Fedora and OpenSUSE in dropping support for 32-bit editions in future versions. Given that 64-bit CPUs have been been dominant for more than a decade, I think this is pretty good news for us LiveCoders. As new distros drop support for older 32-bit CPUs eventu