AMD and Intel released the first 64-bit CPUs for consumers back in 2003 and 2004. Now, more than a decade later, Linux distributions are looking at winding down support for 32-bit hardware. Google ...

Linux got its start in the 1990s as an alternative operating system for older PCs that didn’t have the horsepower to run newer versions of Windows. So it seems a bit ironic, but not totally surprising ...

Seven years ago, Linus Torvalds dropped "ancient-386-CPUs" support from the Linux kernel, dismissing it with "good riddance." While 32-bit Linux lingered on, it was no longer part of Linux's ...

Linux distros are dropping 32-bit support left and right The Manjaro team, another Linux distro, is scheduled to drop support for 32-bit architectures altogether by the end of November 2017. "The ...

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A Linux distribution known for its security and stability, Alpine Linux, has released version 3.23 with several improvements and upgrades to its package base. It's the first major point release since ...

The Fedora community has quickly dropped a couple of recent proposed changes – one highly controversial, the other rather less so.… Fedora 42 is here, and so Fedora 43 is taking shape. That means ...

With the announcement of LibreOffice 6.3 Beta 1, the open source office suite has stopped providing 32-bit binaries for the Linux platform although 32-bit compatibility has not yet been removed from ...

The story of Linux so far, as short as it may be in the grand scheme of things, is one of constant forward momentum. There’s always another feature to implement, an optimization to make, and of course ...

I'm using a SPARCstation 5 with a 70MHz processor and 256MB of RAM. Solaris, OpenBSD, and NetBSD install just fine.<P>What I'm finding is that Linux distros that I've used on newer UltraSPARCs aren't ...

If you purchased your computer in the last decade, it probably has a 64-bit-capable processor. The transition to 64-bit operating systems has been a long one, but Google is about to give Linux users ...