i386 EOL plans for Ubuntu Desktop?

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

On 2016-07-05 21:31, Marcos Alano wrote:
> 2016-07-05 12:57 GMT-03:00 Bryan Quigley
> <bryan.quigley at canonical.com>:
>> The general ideas are:
>> A. Drop ubuntu-desktop i386 ISO for 16.10 and drop some packages
>> from the i386 archive - likely Unity7/8*.
> 
> I think the option A should be put out of discussion or, at least, 
> analyzed very carefully. That's because some applications for i386 
> don't have equivalent for amd64. And other applications depend of
> some i386 packages present in the repositories. Big examples are
> Skype and Steam. Steam depends of a series of i386 packages for GUI.

You can use those applications without installing a 32 bit system.
Dropping the ISO isn't equivalent to dropping all the 32 bit packages.

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Gunnar Hjalmarsson
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