The rationale was the same a few years ago when distributions like Arch Linux decided to drop support for 32-bit hardware entirely. Maintainers had noticed the drop-off in downloads for the 32-bit ...

Absolute Linux is a lightweight distro designed for ... The distro has dropped support for 32-bit and is only available for 64-bit systems. Crunchbang (or #!) was a very popular Debian-derived ...

This major kernel release adds enhanced support for various hardware platforms and new devices. Even Linus Torvalds ...