RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works to Linux@lemmy.worldEnglish · 21 hours agoFedora proposal to drop 32-bit support has been withdrawnwww.gamingonlinux.comexternal-linkmessage-square28fedilinkarrow-up1122arrow-down11
arrow-up1121arrow-down1external-linkFedora proposal to drop 32-bit support has been withdrawnwww.gamingonlinux.comRmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works to Linux@lemmy.worldEnglish · 21 hours agomessage-square28fedilink
minus-squareSapphironZA@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down6·edit-210 hours agoHow much 32bit only hardware is still out there in the wild and not still running on windows XP? Sounds like a problem for a purpose built distro, not a mainline one. EDIT: I stand corrected. I thought it was hardware 32bit support being discussed. It’s premature to discontinue 32-bit libraries.
minus-squareDran@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13arrow-down1·18 hours agoThe support isn’t exclusivity for native 32 bit cpus, it’s for 32bit libraries that compatibility applications like wine/proton depend on to run 32bit windows executables
minus-squareSapphironZA@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 hours agoThank you for the correction.
minus-squareConstant Pain@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·13 hours agoFedora already won’t run on 32bits hardware. That is not the issue being discussed here.
minus-squareSapphironZA@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·10 hours agoI stand corrected. Thank you.
How much 32bit only hardware is still out there in the wild and not still running on windows XP?
Sounds like a problem for a purpose built distro, not a mainline one.
EDIT: I stand corrected. I thought it was hardware 32bit support being discussed. It’s premature to discontinue 32-bit libraries.
The support isn’t exclusivity for native 32 bit cpus, it’s for 32bit libraries that compatibility applications like wine/proton depend on to run 32bit windows executables
Thank you for the correction.
Fedora already won’t run on 32bits hardware. That is not the issue being discussed here.
I stand corrected. Thank you.