The End Of 32-Bit?
Linux Format|June 2020
Working from his fortress of solitude,  Jonni Bidwell investigates the options for 32-bit users now  that future versions of Ubuntu won’t be  supporting them.
The End Of 32-Bit?

Ubuntu 20.04, the longawaited Long Term Support (LTS) edition of one of the world’s most popular distros, is coming, and you can’t install it on a 32-bit PC. Neither can you upgrade 32-bit Ubuntu 18.04 to this edition. And all those distros that get rebased off the new LTS? You can’t run those either.

So does this mean the end  of 32-bit Linux? Not at all. Are  we then guilty of misleading  headlines? Maybe a little bit.  For one thing, there are lots of  32-bit platforms that aren’t  going away – Ubuntu is only  dropping support for the 32-bit  x86 architecture – 32-bit ARM  devices (including Raspberry Pis) for  example are still supported.

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