Here we go! Ubuntu MATE project leader Martin Wimpress announced today that the upcoming Ubuntu MATE 18.10 release wouldn’t be available as a 32-bit (i386) ISO image.
Following in the footsteps of Ubuntu, the Ubuntu MATE official flavor is dropping support for 32-bit installations with the 18.10 release, which is expected to hit the streets later this fall in October. Only a 64-bit ISO image will be released for Ubuntu MATE 18.10.
“Following the successful release of Ubuntu MATE 18.04 LTS last week the development cycle for 18.10 has now opened. We have taken the decision to stop making i386 (32-bit Intel) images starting with Ubuntu MATE 18.10,” said project leader Martin Wimpress.
The decision to drop 32-bit ISO images was taken because less than 10% of Ubuntu MATE users are using the operating system on older, 32-bit machines, and many of those actually install the i386 variant of Ubuntu MATE on 64-bit (amd64) computers.
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