A shame they are missing out of potentially a large number of possible converts that are finding the grass isn’t actually greener than Microsoft afterall and Linux is just as troublesome. Yes there are alternative install/upgrade routes but clearly Linux are going down a certain path. Now I find my other computers with 32 bit processors are no longer supported. The first machine, it worked except for hibernate mode, which I understand is now a well known problem with 17.10. After a considerable period of time researching, I chose to try out Ubuntu. They are crying out for something like what Linux promises. Yes my machines might be a few years old but they are still perfectly decent except for XP support issues and more and more browsers no longer working on XP.
I have been looking into replacing Windows XP with Linux as we have all heard over the years how much better it is supposed to be. Such a shame, just encountered this problem today. P P S – In 2013, M$ and the OEMs even introduced cheap Intel Atom Win 8.x 32bit tablets which could only have a maximum 2GB of RAM and often came with only 16GB/32GB of internal eMMC Flash storage.
P S – Does this mean there will be no Ubuntu 18.04 32bit in April 2018.? … This development does not bode well for Ubuntu and its derivatives, eg Linux Mint. Even M$ have yet to announce the removal of Win 10 32bit. Hence, their eagerness to remove the 32bit option. Seems, the Ubuntu developers like Ledkov are projecting their own need for 64bit OS/software and high-specs computer hardware onto all their customers/adopters. 64bit OS/software have been around since around 2007. IOW, there will likely be no need for 128bit OS/software, at least in the near future.
… In recent years, computer hardware development has reached near-maturation point, ie there is no longer the urgent need for users to upgrade their computers every 2 to 3 years like before 2010. 32bit OS/software are sufficient for them. … Average-users and average-specs computer hardware do not need 64bit OS/software which require more computer resources, eg RAM of 4GB or more.
… It is foolish of Ubuntu to remove the 32bit option because of the above reason, ie default 64bit architecture.Ħ4bit OS/software and high-specs computer hardware are both needed by power-users, eg software developers, gamers and video-editors.
Since 2012, most Linux users buy new OEM Win 8.x/10 64bit computers and then install Linux on them, either 32bit or 64bit. In most cases, Linux or Ubuntu does not come by default or pre-installed in new OEM computers.
That’s because, since Win 8 in 2012, M$ have decreed to their OEM partners to implement UEFI computer technology = Secure Boot, TPM 1.2, GPT disks, 64bit-OS-only and a fat32bit EFI Boot Partition, replacing the simpler Legacy BIOS technology = MS-DOS disks, a fat16bit MBR Boot partition and 32bit/64bit-OS. €œIt is no longer the default, nor most widely used architecture on the traditional form factors: desktop, laptop, rack servers.”” “The initial proposition that Ledkov sent out on May 3, reads,
Regards, Dimitri.†Ubuntu dropping 32-bit ISO imagesĪs I reported just a few days ago, Manjaro has also done the same thing, and we can be sure that more distributions will likely be following suit in the near future as well. There are no other changes requested to d-i, mini.iso, archive, or the upgrade paths. As a followup to this thread it has been confirmed that argumentation below is sound, and furthermore there is no longer any effective qa or testing of the desktop product on actual i386 hardware (explicitly non x86_64 CPUs). Images from the release manifest for Beta and Final milestones of 17.10 and therefore do not ship ubuntu-desktop-i386.iso artifact for 17.10. Ledkov says, “Dear Release team, Please action the below and remove Ubuntu Desktop i386 daily-live Unsurprisingly, Ubuntu has planned to follow the same path that other major distributions have, and drop 32bit ISO images for upcoming releases.ĭimitri John Ledkov from Canonical, sent out a message through their mailing list to the release team, instructing them to not release a 32bit ISO for the upcoming Ubuntu release.