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Please include a 32-bit EFI in upcoming Linux distributions. Cubic and UCK seem to be obsolete to newer distributions. 600K of data can free up a load of kit that’s out there – energy-efficient stuff that can operate on 5V. Save the planet. Do your bit.

Tony Thomson

Neil says…

Not meaning to be negative, but there’s a reason these tools don’t support 32-bit Ubuntu any more: 32-bit Ubuntu doesn’t exist as such. There’s no impetus for desktop or server distros to support 32-bit and no amount of badgering is going

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