At some point, we all knew that companies would start dropping support for 32-bit software. Earlier this month, Apple officially dropped support for 32-bit apps with iOS 11 version, and another company that will make similar move is Canonical.
Starting with Ubuntu 17.10, due next month, Canonical will stop releasing 32-bit versions of its operating system for desktop machines. The main reasons for this move are because 32-bit architecture is changing and is no longer the default architecture on many devices.
"Please action the below and remove Ubuntu Desktop i386 daily-live images from the release manifest for Beta and Final milestones of 17.10 and therefore do not ship ubuntu-desktop-i386.iso artifact for 17.10 … There are no other changes requested to d-i, mini.iso, archive, or the upgrade paths," said Dimitri Ledkov in the email.
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