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From: John McCue <jmclnx@gmail.com.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Linux 32 bit support days are numbered
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2025 14:05:34 -0000 (UTC)
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Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> wrote:
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> What about other UNIX-like systems? Are BSDs planning to do the same?

This is what I heard:

As already mentioned, FreeBSD is dropping 32 bit support.

OpenBSD maybe at some point but not now:

Quote from https://www.openbsd.org/i386.html

    >only easy and critical security fixes are backported to i386

AFAIK DragonflyBSD never supported 32bit.

So that leaves NetBSD, from what I have seen there is no
plans for NetBSD to drop i386 support.

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