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[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 1 points 2 years ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


As noted in prior Phoronix articles for months, FreeBSD 14 is likely to be the last for supporting prominent 32-bit systems.

At least through FreeBSD 16.0 though they intend to continue retaining the ability of running 32-bit binaries on 64-bit kernels.

Potentially that 32-bit user-space support will persist to FreeBSD 17 or longer depending upon how things play out in the next few years.

FreeBSD acknowledges that 32-bit hardware platforms are in a "state of decline in the marketplace" and there is a shrinking pool of developers actively supporting them.

Only if there is demand and commitment for increased developer resources would FreeBSD explore keeping around the 32-bit architecture support longer.

More details on these 32-bit plans via the FreeBSD-announce list.


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