CentOS 7.3 (1611) Linux Distro Now Available for 32-Bit (i386) Architectures

CentOS developer and maintainer Johnny Hughes is today, January 30, 2017, announcing the immediate availability of the latest CentOS 7.3 (1611) GNU/Linux operating system for the 32-bit (i386) hardware architecture.

If some of the most popular GNU/Linux distributions have started dropping support for 32-bit (i686/x86) installations or plan to do so in the near future, many are still installable on older computers from 10 years go.

CentOS 7.3 (1611) is the latest addition to the list of 32-bit supported Linux-based operating systems, thanks to a group of hard working people from the CentOS AltArch SIG initiative trying to create alternative architecture support for CentOS Linux.

"This is the release announcement for the i386 (Intel 32-bit) Architecture based on the source code released for CentOS-7 (1611). It includes all packages that build on x86 32-bit processors," said Johnny Hughes in today's read more)

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