The ubiquity of the 64-bit architectures, at least for desktop computers, notebooks and any other type, has dropped out of use - almost in dimenticatio - the now obsolete 32-bit architectures: to date there are many machines to have an architecture of this type, so much so that more and more companies and communities give priority to 64 for their products.
Canonical also is one of them, and already several weeks ago had reported it would abandon t&t supermarket toronto the 32-bit architectures for its operating system Ubuntu. And today, during a conference held during the Ubuntu Online Summit taking place these days, comes the confirmation.
Ubuntu will be 16:04 the latest to adopt the 32-bit architecture and then, starting t&t supermarket toronto from Ubuntu 16.10 the flavor Desktop, Server and Cloud will be available exclusively on 64-bit images.
The decision would have resulted either from a survey conducted by Canonical t&t supermarket toronto and the statistics from the main site, which speak of a frequency of downloading images to 32 bits less than 20%, the frequency set to decline again. So it is clear that users no longer need the 32-bit ISO and that the server, packagers and all other people involved will only benefit from this.
You have to consider that it also will impact on derivatives t&t supermarket toronto of Ubuntu machines purely dedicated to legacy (eg Lubuntu): Canonical is currently in communication with the communities of these distributions even if, for 2019 (end of support date Ubuntu LTS 16:04 desktop), probably also the machines will have the infamous legacy 64-bit.
February 6, 2015
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