topic title: announced: ubuntu desktop edition is dropping i386 support
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skidoo
Joined: 09 Feb 2012
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Dimitri John Ledkov
Wed Sep 27 16:16:33 UTC 2017

Dear Release team,

Please action the below and remove Ubuntu Desktop i386 daily-live images from the release manifest for Beta and Final milestones of 17.10 and therefore do not ship ubuntu-desktop-i386.iso artifact for 17.10.

As a followup to this thread it has been confirmed that argumentation below is sound, and furthermore there is no longer any effective qa or testing of the desktop product on actual i386 hardware (explicitly non x86_64 CPUs).

There are no other changes requested to d-i, mini.iso, archive, or the upgrade paths.

Regards,

Dimitri.
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rokytnji
Joined: 20 Feb 2009
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Waiting on the migration then. Gnu herds are coming.

Oooops. My Bad. I guess if wanting systemd. Then Debian can be the other river crossing.

Maybe one of these days. I try another stab at a Slitaz install. Which I installed OK last time. And then failed gloriously after that.
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skidoo
Joined: 09 Feb 2012
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27Sept
softpedia.com article provided additional details

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starting with Ubuntu 17.10 (Artful Aardvark), Canonical won't offer ISO images for the i386 architecture for the Server (classic) and Desktop versions, but they will continue to provide security updates for existing 32-bit installations via the main Ubuntu archive, as well as Ubuntu Core, Cloud, Container, NetInst, and Server (subiquity) images.
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At the moment of writing, no official Ubuntu flavor announced that they'd follow suit and drop support for new 32-bit (i386) installations starting with Ubuntu 17.10 (Artful Aardvark), which hits the streets in three weeks, on October 19, 2017. Flavors like Lubuntu and Xubuntu, which are designed for old computers, most probably won't drop 32-bit support anytime soon.
We've talked with Lubuntu contributor and developer Simon Quigley, who told us that Lubuntu would continue to be available for i386 machines...