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Linux Mint 20 will ditch 32-bit architecture following Canonical's recent announcement

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 4th of July 2019 08:32:22 AM Filed under
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Clem Lefebvre, head of the Linux Mint project, has announced that Linux Mint 20 and beyond will drop support for 32-bit systems. The news comes on the heels of a decision made by Canonical to drop support for the 32-bit architecture in Ubuntu 19.10 and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, the latter of which Linux Mint 20 will be based on.

In the blog post, Lefebvre said he believes most people are happy with the decision to drop 32-bit versions and that it makes sense in 2020. Computers with a 64-bit processor have been on the market since 2003, and most of the computers that have shipped in this decade are 64-bit ready (except several infernal netbooks).

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Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 4th of July 2019 08:55:38 AM.
  • Linux Mint Confirms It’s Dropping 32-bit Releases

    The good news is that this isn’t happening yet. Users can continue to download Linux Mint 19.1 32-bit, install it, and use it as normal (the perks of being based on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, which Canonical support until 2023).

    But by the time the Linux Mint 20 release arrives next year the distro will no longer produce 32-bit install media or on-going support for 32-bit systems.

    Sharing word of the pending retirement in his latest monthly mail-shot, Linux Mint lead Clement Lefebvre explains:-

    “Linux Mint 19.x is already available in 32-bit and it can be used until 2023. I think most people are happy with this and dropping 32-bit releases going forward makes sense in 2020.”

    Sounds, fair.

Linux Mint 32-bit edition axed starting from Mint 20 onwards

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Friday 5th of July 2019 02:47:43 AM.
  • Linux Mint 32-bit edition axed starting from Linux Mint 20 onwards

    As per the expectations, the Mint team has confirmed that Linux Mint 20 and later versions won’t support 32-bit architecture.

    Recently, Canonical made a massive announcement that the new Ubuntu won’t be available for 32-bit architecture. Because of this, there were a lot of speculations in the air about the release of the latest version of Linux Mint, most of which said that Linux Mint would make the same move. Proving these speculations true was the most recent announcement by Clem Lefebvre, the Project Founder and Lead Developer of Linux Mint, himself.

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