<div dir="ltr">A leading Ubuntu developer has said it is “simply not the case” that Ubuntu will drop support for running 32-bit applications in Ubuntu 19.10 and subsequent editions.<br><div><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.9;font-family:"Open Sans",Ubuntu,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Now, in a forum reply on the Ubuntu Discourse, Langasek appears to row back on the notion that 32-bit libraries will be removed wholesale in the ‘Eoan Ermine’, writing:<br></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.9;font-family:"Open Sans",Ubuntu,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><em style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">“I’m sorry that we’ve given anyone the impression that we are ‘dropping support for i386 applications</em>‘<em style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">. It is simply not the case. What we are dropping is updates to the i386 libraries, which will be frozen at the 18.04 LTS versions.”</em></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.9;font-family:"Open Sans",Ubuntu,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><em style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><a href="https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/06/is-ubuntu-not-dropping-32-bit-app-support-after-all?fbclid=IwAR2IQGLiqjYHtc_JY00I-mR5948OCVgO22OWqHkZUxuQRGpDACFSJ2y1w1U">https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/06/is-ubuntu-not-dropping-32-bit-app-support-after-all?fbclid=IwAR2IQGLiqjYHtc_JY00I-mR5948OCVgO22OWqHkZUxuQRGpDACFSJ2y1w1U</a><br></em></p></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Jun 23, 2019 at 8:44 AM Dale Trombley <<a href="mailto:buzzmandt@gmail.com">buzzmandt@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">I was under the impression it was just the build architecture and not the packages. If the packages remain the same steam will be fine right? Someone can give some clarity here?</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Jun 23, 2019, 8:20 AM Jonas Timothy <<a href="mailto:techxgames@outlook.com" target="_blank">techxgames@outlook.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br>
<br>
I'm just wondering that, instead of totally dropping i386, why not just <br>
drop the ones that are unnecessary from the repos, like VLC, Vim, Nano, <br>
Plasma, etc.  Since Ubuntu doesn't even have an i386 based distros <br>
officially, those aren't needed to be there anymore.  That way, you only <br>
had to trim it down to the ones that are necessary for us who need the <br>
legacy stuff without the workarounds, like Wine?<br>
<br>
Best of both worlds, right?<br>
<br>
Jonas<br>
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