Re:The future of 32-bit Linux
by arp242 on Saturday December 05, 2020 @08:40AM
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Maintaining a 32bit Linux fork which includes just security patches and (critical) bugfixes would actually be a lot less work than keep maintaining 32bit support for all new feature development. Maintaining a "32bit LTS" fork of Linux like this would probably be pretty viable.
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Re:The future of 32-bit Linux
by the_why_of_y on Saturday December 05, 2020 @11:13AM
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Keep in mind that in this space, "security patch" might come in the form of rewriting the architecture specific virtual memory implementation... https://lwn.net/Articles/741878/
You'd hope that we're finished with working around all the CPU bugs now, but yeah, it's not necessarily trivial, and the longer the fork exists, the harder it will be to backport patches. But I can see how you can build a business maintaining a Linux LTS (there are businesses offering Rails LTS, Microsoft offers updates for Windows XP if you pay), so there's some precedent here.