32-bit or 64-bit?
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From Whonix ™ 14 onward, only 64-bit builds are available for download.
[1] This decision is based on several factors:
- Distributions are increasingly dropping support for 32-bit systems (including Debian). [2]
- Only a small minority of users are stuck with older hardware that will not support 64-bit builds. [3]
- It is a significant maintenance burden for Whonix ™ to maintain both 32-bit and 64-bit builds. [4]
Non-Qubes-Whonix 13 users (deprecated [archive]) who rely on 32-bit (i686) hardware are still able to use Whonix ™ 14, by using the upgrade instructions. [5] [6] [7]- Users could attempt to build a 32-bit version of Whonix ™ from source code, by appending the Whonix ™ build script parameter
--arch i386. - Statistics: https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/8183 [archive]
- Forum Discussion: https://forums.whonix.org/t/state-of-offical-64-bit-builds [archive]
Footnotes[edit]
- ↑ https://phabricator.whonix.org/T91 [archive]
- ↑
- ↑ For example in Tails [archive], less than 10% of users had 32-bit kernels in late 2016.
- ↑ That is, Whonix ™ would need to maintain 10 images instead of the current 6 images.
- ↑ This is because none of the Whonix ™ packages were made 64-bit only.
- ↑ https://phabricator.whonix.org/T688#13700 [archive]
- ↑ https://forums.whonix.org/t/state-of-offical-64-bit-builds/399 [archive]
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