There are many distributions that are abandoning the 32-bit version. A list that is growing month by month and increasingly famous distributions are joining this abandonment. Ubuntu will be the next distribution to abandon this platform.
Canonical developer Dimitri John Ledkov has indicated that the team at Ubuntu will abandon development for the 32-bit platform, also known as i686. However this change will not affect everyone in Ubuntu.
32-bit images will no longer be in both the daily Live ISOs and also in the final version of Ubuntu 17.10. This change will also affect future versions of Ubuntu, both development installation ISO images and stable versions.
The decision of this change is due to the fact that practically all teams (portable and desktop) are compatible with 64-bit platform and it does not make much sense to develop a different version that in the end many do not use. I must also say that Ubuntu's requirements have grown so much that practically the few 32-bit computers that exist are not capable of supporting Ubuntu, so it is also normal that the development of this platform is abandoned.
And if you are a user of 32-bit ISO images, don't worry, all is not lost. The official Ubuntu image abandons the 32 bits but not the official flavors. The decision to abandon the 32 bits will be in the official flavor itself and there may be a 32-bit version although the official version of Ubuntu does not have this version. Something logical because 32-bit computers do use Xubuntu, Ubuntu MATE or Lubuntu, rather than Ubuntu with Unity or Gnome or Plasma.
Personally, it seems like a good decision, although it is a decision that will bring controversy, at least among users of distributions that are based on Ubuntu and that they will be forced to abandon the 32 bits or maybe not? What do you think?
What will happen??? It will no longer fit a comp of 32 ??
No, not anymore, people who have a 32-bit Ubuntu other than LTS will have to install another 32-bit compatible distribution
Either way…
Now I have a 17-04 in 32bit version. The move can be done normally at 17.10?
You can't since the system architecture is different, you will have to look for another 32-bit distribution like Linux Mint
or format the computer and reinstall……… ..
Thanks to both. It seems to me that I mute everything to 64bits
It is better to move to 64 bits, so you make better use of the resources of your machine
We are in 2017 please!
I still think that Microsoft already got its own Trojan Horse which is the CEO of Ubuntu to destroy free software. It's time to think about asking the CEO to resign before he exterminates Ubuntu.
Ubuntu stopped being that dynamic distribution since 2011. The way is Linux Mint.
Too bad and I was thinking of using the new versions next year.
That blowjob does not grab the wifi neither 32 nor 64 bits, what Fedora?
Is that good or bad?
Are you watching Mario? nothing is by chance that you have installed 64 bits
I can not update to 17 I have 16.04
Don't do it compa: 'v
Jaz Hernandez
Oops, we're getting posh!
An off topic question, why does my gpu throttle to the max when I start any Linux distro?
It would be fine if it did not give problems with broadcom
HA! The «kings of optimization»