Ubuntu (apparently) dropping supports 32 bit libs, what is the chance of this happening in Fedora and RedHat? does anyone have any official information about?
There is a proposal to drop 32-bit kernel builds, as the 32-bit kernels already aren’t consistently maintained. This would mean that Fedora 31 would not run on 32-bit hardware.
However, multilib would still be staying, meaning that 32-bit packages would still be available. Therefore, software like Steam will continue working. Ubuntu 19.10 is dropping multilib, which is where the technical conflict is coming from.
(Of course this is all relative to x86/x64 hardware, the arm variants are entirely unaffected.)
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