Monthly Archives: March 2016

The Linux community quickly adopted 64-bit about a decade ago. Except for some conservatives, new systems started to be deployed nearly exclusively 64-bit. As time went by, 32-bit systems were slowly replaced by 64-bit systems. Still, both variants remained well supported for quite some time. The decline was slow, but in 2015 32-bit Linux seemed to turn into a second class citizen. Some community based distributions were no longer able to find maintainers for 32-bit variants. A shift has also occurred in some commercial software. E.g. Google has now stopped supporting the Chrome browser on 32-bit Linux. Let’s make 2016 the year of migrating from 32-bit to 64-bit Linux. That way developers and package maintainers can forget about one architecture. Linux on ARM could use the freed up resources.