Article 6Y6FY Fedora 44 Looks To Drop i686 Support: No More Multi-Lib / x86 32-bit Packages

Fedora 44 Looks To Drop i686 Support: No More Multi-Lib / x86 32-bit Packages

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Michael Larabel
from Phoronix on (#6Y6FY)
Fedora Linux for a while already stopped building i686 kernel releases and dropped their dedicated i686 repositories while now for the Fedora 44 release there is a proposal to take things further: finish gutting the i686 support. The new change proposal seeks to no longer include packages built for the i686 architecture and thereby dropping multi-lib support for 32-bit packages on 64-bit hosts. There wouldn't be any packages built any longer for i686 under this F44 proposal...
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