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AlmaLinux 10.2 Lavender Lion Beta supports older CPUs while RHEL moves on

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2026/05/almalinux-10-2-beta-lavender-lion/

Sep 10, 2025

#Firefox to end support for #32bit #Linux in 2026

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https://www.ghacks.net/2025/09/10/firefox-to-end-support-for-32-bit-linux-in-2026/?utm_source=mas.to&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=&utm_term=&utm_content=&utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fmas.to%2F%40KNTRO&utm_id=&utm_creative=&utm_channel=mastodon_organic&utm_platform=desktop&utm_location=argentina&utm_language=es-ar&utm_variant=

#Mozilla #MozillaFirefox #i386 #i486 #i586 #i686 #GNU #GNULinux

Firefox to end support for 32-bit Linux in 2026 - gHacks Tech News

Mozilla has announced that it will end support for Firefox on 32-bit Linux systems in 2026. This shouldn't affect most users, but still it's something worth mentioning. ADVERTISEMENT It may seem surprising […]

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keep_surfing Aug 28, 2025

Ich bin vorerst begeistert von #emmabuntus #emmabuntüs #Debian

das #toughbook ist gefühlt älter als Steinkohle, #i686 #32bit.
Das angedachte #puppylinux wollte nicht (und einige andere 32bit- #distribution en ebenso), dafür hab ich #emmabuntus gefunden...

Schaut mal rein!

#Linux
#LinuxforAll

Aptivi Aug 9, 2025

Debian officially takes out i686 disk images!

Debian 13 “Trixie” has just been released today to bring many improvements and new versions of packages, such as GNOME 48, KDE Plasma 6.3, and Linux 6.12 LTS. As we have speculated earlier back last year that the i686 support was declining, further evidenced by Debian taking out the i686 kernels, our speculations made last October were made right.

Debian has joined the majority of the distros that no longer provided the i686 architecture support for kernel and for installation disks. Starting from Debian 13 “Trixie”, you can no longer use the Debian installer disks made for the i686 processors. Anyone who still uses the i686 version of Debian 12 “Bookworm” won’t be able to upgrade to Trixie.

If you’re looking into upgrading to Trixie, consider one of the following options:

If your computer’s processor supports the 64-bit instructions (the oldest processors that support them are AMD Athlon 64 and Intel Pentium 4 Prescott, Cedar Mill, or higher), you’ll need to back up your crucial data and re-install Debian with the 64-bit installers.
If your computer’s processor only supports 32-bit (older Intel Pentium 4, Pentium 3 or older, and AMD Athlon XP or older), you have one of the two options.
- Stay on Debian 12 “Bookworm”
- Find another Linux distribution that supports 32-bit, such as Arch Linux 32

#amd64 #Debian #Debian13 #Debian13Trixie #DebianTrixie #i386 #i686 #news #Tech #Technology #Trixie #update

LinuxNews.de Jun 30, 2025

Fedora: Vorschlag für die Entfernung von i686 zurückgezogen
https://linuxnews.de/fedora-vorschlag-fuer-die-entfernung-von-i686-zurueckgezogen/ #fedora #32bit #i686

Fedora: Vorschlag für die Entfernung von i686 zurückgezogen

Fedora wird seine 32-Bit-Unterstützung bis auf Weiteres behalten. Der Vorschlag, die i686-Architektur mit Fedora 44 zu entfernen, wurde zurückgezogen.

LinuxNews.de

OSTechNix Jun 29, 2025

Fedora's 32-bit (i686) Support Withdrawal Postponed #Fedora44 #32bit #i686 #steam #wine #linux #multilib
https://ostechnix.com/fedora-32-bit-i686-support-withdrawal-postponed/

Aptivi Jun 24, 2025

Fedora 44 proposes dropping i686 support

The proposal has been officially withdrawn, citing that Fedora 44 targeting is too early.

Fedora 44, which will be released on March 31st, 2026, will mark the first Fedora Linux release without the i686 support, because this kind of support will be wiped entirely. This proposal says that the Fedora team proposes dropping the 32-bit multilib support and stopping package builds for the i686 architecture. The thread discussing the proposal can be found here.

Earlier, Fedora had stopped building installer and live images for the i686 architecture and for the package repositories, including the Linux kernel, starting from Fedora 31 released on October 8th, 2019. This proposal, if accepted, will be done in just two steps:

Packages built for the i686 architecture are no longer included in x86_64 repositories (dropping “multilib” support, i.e. support for running 32-bit userspace on a 64-bit host).
Packages are no longer built for the i686 architecture.

The first step will be done before the massive rebuild, and can be reversed easily if needed, since it doesn’t require retrying the bootstrap process for the reversal process. After the first step is done, the transition period will start with at least four weeks to complete the transition. During this period, packages will have to go through the adaptation process to make sure that they work correctly in the new configuration that doesn’t rely on the 32-bit multilib libraries. For example, Wine will have to enable the new WoW64 configuration.

The first step is planned to be implemented as early as possible during the Fedora 44 development cycle before the mass rebuild phase on January 14th, 2026. After that, the second step, which is irreversible, will be performed after the transition period finishes.

When this change is successfully implemented, any i686 packages will be removed upon performing the system upgrade to avoid any potential issues.

We will let you know once the FESCO approves or rejects the proposal.

#Fedora #Fedora44 #i686 #news #Tech #Technology #update