Ubuntu 17.10 Will Drop The 32-bit Desktop ISO

[danieru]

Will lubuntu keep making 32 bit desktop images?

[Mavman]

Finally!

32Bit machines cannot handle Ubuntu as it should run IMHO. Besides, the world should be moving into 64bit a long time ago... (anyone knows where's that 128Bit computer i've been dreaming on??? ahahah)

Lubuntu will keep running on 32bit for sure (at least i hope so)! It makes total sense.

[starshipeleven]

In before someone starts moaning that they're running one of those 32-bit Atom EEE-style netbooks from 10 years ago....

Or even worse they start moaning over purely philosophical reasons that have no standing in real life.

[starshipeleven]

Clever. QA is most likely to fail when you have a test case explosion. Trim.

Yeah, if they want to have a decent user experience with GNOME they need all the resources they can free up.

[kaprikawn]

In before someone starts moaning that they're running one of those 32-bit Atom EEE-style netbooks from 10 years ago....

[ElectricPrism]

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.

[Slithery]

Arch leads the way once again

[sdack]

What will Lubuntu do?

[xpris]

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.

[gQuigs]

>The smaller memory footprint of i686 vs x86-64 allows me to run about 30% more VM instances.

Would love to better understand your use case where it makes a difference - how do you measure it and what it the app?

Related, have you tried LXD instead of VMs? https://linuxcontainers.org/lxd/