Ubuntu 17.10 Will Drop The 32-bit Desktop ISO

[R41N3R]

Removing the 32bit installer is a good decision.

[Delgarde]

His point was about the time of announcements, they just drop stuff in the middle of things, with no warning.

It's not exactly without warning... if you search Phoronix history, you'll see that the change has been proposed several times, going back as early as 2014. The plan to drop 32-bit ISOs in 17.10 was proposed in mid-2016, so this shouldn't surprise anyone.

[andyprough]

I personally don't hear anything about Arch Linux unless it's a meme about some random person using it, and the only thing I've heard about openSUSE TW lately was that they have an official NVIDIA GPU driver repo now, and I saw that on an article here on Phoronix.

Won't hear much about Arch and Tumbleweed because they just work, and just stay up to date. Hear a lot about distros with timed releases, because so many people have trouble at the same time as they struggle to upgrade. Also, those distros fall months and months behind on important packages, and then try to quickly catch up all at once.

[starshipeleven]

You're not paying for it.

His point was about the time of announcements, they just drop stuff in the middle of things, with no warning.

[Marc Driftmeyer]

Stupid decision. In my opinion they should drop 32bit after Ubuntu 17.10 and they should say - your next release is only x64bit but no... they drop it from day to day (like Unity) this is wrong in my opinion.

You're not paying for it.

Now all they need to do is:

1. Drop the Ubuntu XX.10 releases
2. Keep Ubuntu LTS
3. Create Ubuntu Rolling-Release
4. Create Ubuntu Rolling-Release [testing] [stable] [core] to assure QA.

I imagine Ubuntu probably won't go rolling-release due to a drop in popularity. I imagine most "casual" (not sure on a better term) users interested in Linux will hear of a popular distro's next release (like Ubuntu 17.10, Fedora 27, whatever the next versions of openSUSE Leap and Debian will be, etc), but what kind of news will you hear of about rolling distros?

I personally don't hear anything about Arch Linux unless it's a meme about some random person using it, and the only thing I've heard about openSUSE TW lately was that they have an official NVIDIA GPU driver repo now, and I saw that on an article here on Phoronix.

On a different note, what could a rolling-release Ubuntu solve that isn't taken care of by current rolling-release distros?

[starshipeleven]

umm, and call it Debian..? ah no, that already exists

I think you missed the joke. The only way to make a better Ubuntu is to make a Debian.

[JeansenVaars]

Now all they need to do is:

1. Drop the Ubuntu XX.10 releases
2. Keep Ubuntu LTS
3. Create Ubuntu Rolling-Release
4. Create Ubuntu Rolling-Release [testing] [stable] [core] to assure QA.

umm, and call it Debian..? ah no, that already exists

[sverris]

Will lubuntu keep making 32 bit desktop images?

Even if they don't, it does not really matter. Package archive in 32 bit is sufficient.

[Otus]

Stupid decision. In my opinion they should drop 32bit after Ubuntu 17.10 and they should say - your next release is only x64bit but no... they drop it from day to day (like Unity) this is wrong in my opinion.

You will still be able to upgrade a 32-bit install to 17.10.