openSUSE Tumbleweed team changes its mind about x86-64-v2
Tumbleweed is changing course once again, but it's due to popular demand, and it means broader compatibility for more people. Saying that, it's looking for someone to help maintain its 32-bit support.
Back in November, the openSUSE project announced that it was changing the minimum CPU requirement for Tumbleweed on x86-64 to version 2 of the instruction set – as well as dropping support for x86-32 machines.
This would bring Tumbleweed into line with the requirements of its next-gen enterprise OS, currently available as a prototype called ALP. There's a summary of the issue on the project's website. However, following an outcry from openSUSE users, the plan has changed… again. It's still dropping the x86-32 edition, but it's not going to switch to requiring second-generation x86-64 chips.