Fedora Drops 32-Bit Linux

'Brian Fagioli, writing for BetaNews:

Beginning with the upcoming version 31 of the operating system, i686
32-bit processor support is being dropped by the Fedora Project. "The
i686 architecture essentially entered community support with the
Fedora 27 release. Unfortunately, there are not enough members of the
community willing to do the work to maintain the architecture. Don't
worry, though -- Fedora is not dropping all 32-bit packages. Many i686
packages are still being built to ensure things like multilib, wine,
and Steam will continue to work," says Justin Forbes of Fedora
Project. Forbes further explains, "While the repositories are no
longer being composed and mirrored out, there is a koji i686
repository which works with mock for building 32-bit packages, and in
a pinch to install 32-bit versions which are not part of the x86_64
multilib repository. Of course, maintainers expect this will see
limited use. Users who simply need to run a 32-bit application should
be able to do so with multilib on a 64-bit system."'

-- source: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/19/10/09/154256

Cheers, Peter
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Peter Reutemann
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University of Waikato, NZ
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