It does appear to be fading away. https://www.archlinux.org/news/phasing-out-i686-support/
For my personal use case, I had to change my bios to support 64-bit guest VMs on my work Win7 box. Good thing they have not locked down my BIOS, or I would have been restricted to 32-bit guests. On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 4:36 PM, Ovidiu-Florin BOGDAN <[email protected]> wrote: > I'd propose we don't drop the 32bit release. In fact, I'd also propose > that we prepare it with a 32bit EFI support for those special little > snowflakes out there. > > *Ovidiu - Florin BOGDAN* > GeekAliens.com <http://ovidiu.geekaliens.com> > Kubuntu România <http://kubuntu.org> > <http://www.google.com/profiles/ovidiu.b13> > > 2016-11-14 19:07 GMT+02:00 Bryan Quigley <[email protected]>: > >> Sorry for the late notice - there is a live discussion scheduled for >> this Wednesday on this topic for any flavors that want to further the >> discussion. >> >> http://summit.ubuntu.com/uos-16 11/meeting/22714/architecture- >> discussions/ >> >> On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 12:24 PM, Bryan Quigley >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hi all, >> > >> > From the thread on Ubuntu-devel/discuss [1] I'm going to start >> > conversations with each flavor on what their plans are for i386 in the >> > 18.04 timeframe. Also see the survey [2] results to get a rough idea >> > of the impact. >> > >> > The general ideas are: >> > A. Drop kubuntu i386 ISO for 16.10 and drop some packages from >> > the i386 archive - like kwin/kwayland*. >> > B. Just drop kubuntu i386 ISO for 16.10. >> > C. Keep everything as is for 18.04, and then consider dropping i386 >> > in 18.10 timeframe. >> > >> > Thoughts? >> > Bryan >> > >> > * You could consider any packages that are 100% specific to the Kubuntu >> flavor. >> > >> > [1] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2016-June/ >> 039420.html >> > >> > [2] These results are Kubuntu specific (22 of the 300 responses). >> > Given the lower response rate I would guess that less Kubuntu users >> > use i386 to begin with. Over half of the Kubuntu responses are from >> > 64-bit capable machines but using i386 due to memory or other >> > constraints. >> > >> > How long do you expect this machine to last? >> > at least 1 year - 3 >> > at least 3 years - 11 >> > at least 5 years - 5 >> > at least 7 years - 3 >> > >> > What would be the effect if support ended... (1 is no impact, 5 is >> > significant impact) >> > April 2019 (16.04 LTS support ends here for Kubuntu - 3 year LTS) >> > 1 - 7 >> > 2 - 3 >> > 3 - 3 >> > 4 - 3 >> > 5 - 5 >> > >> > April 2021 >> > 1 - 12 >> > 3 - 3 >> > 4 - 2 >> > 5 - 2 >> > >> > April 2023 >> > 1 - 13 >> > 2 - 4 >> > 3 - 2 >> >> -- >> kubuntu-devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailm >> an/listinfo/kubuntu-devel >> > > > -- > kubuntu-devel mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/ > mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-devel > >
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