32-Bit x86 support in Fedora
32-Bit x86 support in Fedora
[Distributions] Posted Jul 19, 2017 19:27 UTC (Wed) by jake
An under-the-radar proposal to stop building i686 kernels for Fedora led to a discussion about dropping support for 32-bit x86 hardware. Any of the hardware that needs these kernels is quite old, but participants in a thread on the Fedora devel mailing list noted that those systems still exist—some run Fedora. As the discussion progressed, though, it became clear that the Fedora i686 kernel has been in rough shape for some time now.