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> I hope when Linux distros will start dropping 32-bit support, they'll still keep multiarch around for such purposes. A bit late for the comment there. Pretty
by chungy 9y ago
> I hope when Linux distros will start dropping 32-bit support, they'll still keep multiarch around for such purposes.
A bit late for the comment there. Pretty much the only distros that still support x86-32 as an installation/host option are Debian, Slackware, and Gentoo. Everybody else (including Ubuntu) has gone 64bit-or-bust.
Mind that the latter half still applies. The kernel is still capable of running 32-bit applications in a 64-bit environment, and no distro has removed multiarch support, and likely won't.
- shmerl 9y ago> and no distro has removed multiarch support, and likely won't. My only concern is, that with general dropping of 32-bit, multiarch versions of packages will be bitten by bit rot, because no one will be maintaining them.
- lmm 9y agoWell, if people are using them those people will report bugs, if no-one is using them then they will rot but it won't matter. It hurts if you're using one obscure package that no-one else is, but that's the software life. /I was quite possibly the last gentoo/sparc32 user