Linux got its start in the 1990s as an alternative operating system for older PCs that didn’t have the horsepower to run newer versions of Windows. So it seems a bit ironic, but not totally surprising ...

AMD and Intel released the first 64-bit CPUs for consumers back in 2003 and 2004. Now, more than a decade later, Linux distributions are looking at winding down support for 32-bit hardware. Google ...

If you’re reading this article on a PC, it’s quite likely the processor under the hood is 64-bit. Most computers these days run 64-bit CPUs, and most computers run 64-bit operating systems. Arch Linux ...

Firefox 144, due to be released on October 14, 2025, will be the final version for 32-bit Linux. Firefox 145, scheduled for November 11, 2025, will require a 64-bit Linux distribution. You can check ...

The Fedora community has quickly dropped a couple of recent proposed changes – one highly controversial, the other rather less so.… Fedora 42 is here, and so Fedora 43 is taking shape. That means ...

Seven years ago, Linus "="" support="" from="" the="" linux="" kernel"="">, dismissing it with "good riddance." While 32-bit Linux lingered on, it was no longer part of Linux's mainstream. Gradually, ...

Mozilla will stop supporting Firefox for 32-bit Linux systems in 2026. However, most major Linux distributions for the desktop, such as Ubuntu and Fedora, no longer provide 32-bit support anyway.

The story of Linux so far, as short as it may be in the grand scheme of things, is one of constant forward momentum. There’s always another feature to implement, an optimization to make, and of course ...

Linux distros are dropping 32-bit support left and right The Manjaro team, another Linux distro, is scheduled to drop support for 32-bit architectures altogether by the end of November 2017. "The ...