My opinion on Ubuntu cancelling Intel 80386/80386-clone processor support

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Tue, 6 Sep 2016 17:08:30 -0700, Ryan Cunningham wrote:
>I have heard recently that Ubuntu has plans to cancel support for
>processors in the Intel 80386 family (and clones of the same).

Hi,

I'm not a developer. However, already 3 years ago i386 support was
removed from Linux 3.8. I guess you are confusing i386 with 32 bit in
general. It's confusing that Ubuntu 32 bit packages are named i386,
while actually they are not i386. I don't know, I guess they are i586.
But yes, dropping 32 bit support completely seems to happen relatively
soon.

Regards,
Ralf