i386 EOL plans for Kubuntu?

[Marco Parillo]

It does appear to be fading away.
https://www.archlinux.org/news/phasing-out-i686-support/

For my personal use case, I had to change my bios to support 64-bit guest
VMs on my work Win7 box. Good thing they have not locked down my BIOS, or I
would have been restricted to 32-bit guests.

On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 4:36 PM, Ovidiu-Florin BOGDAN <ovidiu.b13 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I'd propose we don't drop the 32bit release. In fact, I'd also propose
> that we prepare it with a 32bit EFI support for those special little
> snowflakes out there.
>
> *Ovidiu - Florin BOGDAN*
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> 2016-11-14 19:07 GMT+02:00 Bryan Quigley <bryan.quigley at canonical.com>:
>
>> Sorry for the late notice - there is a live discussion scheduled for
>> this Wednesday on this topic for any flavors that want to further the
>> discussion.
>>
>> http://summit.ubuntu.com/uos-16 11/meeting/22714/architecture-
>> discussions/
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 12:24 PM, Bryan Quigley
>> <bryan.quigley at canonical.com> wrote:
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > From the thread on Ubuntu-devel/discuss [1] I'm going to start
>> > conversations with each flavor on what their plans are for i386 in the
>> > 18.04 timeframe.  Also see the survey [2] results to get a rough idea
>> > of the impact.
>> >
>> > The general ideas are:
>> > A. Drop kubuntu i386 ISO for 16.10 and drop some packages from
>> > the i386 archive - like kwin/kwayland*.
>> > B.  Just drop kubuntu i386 ISO for 16.10.
>> > C.  Keep everything as is for 18.04, and then consider dropping i386
>> > in 18.10 timeframe.
>> >
>> > Thoughts?
>> > Bryan
>> >
>> > * You could consider any packages that are 100% specific to the Kubuntu
>> flavor.
>> >
>> > [1] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2016-June/
>> 039420.html
>> >
>> > [2] These results are Kubuntu specific (22 of the 300 responses).
>> > Given the lower response rate I would guess that less Kubuntu users
>> > use i386 to begin with.  Over half of the Kubuntu responses are from
>> > 64-bit capable machines but using i386 due to memory or other
>> > constraints.
>> >
>> > How long do you expect this machine to last?
>> > at least 1 year - 3
>> > at least 3 years - 11
>> > at least 5 years - 5
>> > at least 7 years - 3
>> >
>> > What would be the effect if support ended... (1 is no impact, 5 is
>> > significant impact)
>> > April 2019 (16.04 LTS support ends here for Kubuntu - 3 year LTS)
>> > 1 - 7
>> > 2 - 3
>> > 3 - 3
>> > 4 - 3
>> > 5 - 5
>> >
>> > April 2021
>> > 1 - 12
>> > 3 - 3
>> > 4 - 2
>> > 5 - 2
>> >
>> > April 2023
>> > 1 - 13
>> > 2 - 4
>> > 3 - 2
>>
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