On 64-bit Ubuntu systems, the Chromium packages previously depended on ia32-libs. Now that the browser can be built natively for 64-bit systems, it no longer has that requirement.

32-bit software should be functionally obsolete, but it turns out to live on in a 64-bit computing world. So, Canonical is putting 32-bit libraries back in to its next Ubuntu Linux releases.

AMD and Intel released the first 64-bit CPUs for consumers back in 2003 and 2004. Now, more than a decade later, Linux distributions are looking at winding down support for 32-bit hardware. Google ...

I have a Dell Poweredge 2950 with a Xeon e5420 CPU with Ubuntu 8.04 64-bit installed. I'd like to use VMWare player on this machine to run a 64-bit image, also with Ubuntu 64-bit installed ...

The transition to 64-bit operating systems has been a long one, but Google is about to give Linux users another push. In March 2016, Google will stop releasing Chrome for 32-bit Linux distributions.

Canonical engineer Dimitri John Ledkov announced on Wednesday that Ubuntu does not plan to offer 32-bit ISO installation images for its new OS version starting with the next release — Ubuntu 17. ...