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Linux Kernel Developers Discuss Dropping x32 Support (phoronix.com)
An anonymous reader shared a report: It was just several years ago that the open-source ecosystem began supporting the x32 ABI, but already kernel developers are talking of potentially deprecating the support and for it to be ultimately removed..
[...] While the x32 support was plumbed through the Linux landscape, it really hasn't been used much. Kernel developers are now discussing the future of the x32 ABI due to the maintenance cost involved in still supporting this code but with minimal users. Linus Torvalds is in favor of sunsetting x32 and many other upstream contributors in favor of seeing it deprecated and removed.
[...] While the x32 support was plumbed through the Linux landscape, it really hasn't been used much. Kernel developers are now discussing the future of the x32 ABI due to the maintenance cost involved in still supporting this code but with minimal users. Linus Torvalds is in favor of sunsetting x32 and many other upstream contributors in favor of seeing it deprecated and removed.
It looks like you missed a verb there. Either that, or Slashdot has finally come across something everyone on Slashdot can agree is "News for Nerds." One nerd attempting to assassinate a group of nerds certainly meets every possible meaning of "News for Nerds."
I'd say you must be new here if you expect people to RTFA, but your UID is a respectable 4 digits...
Or another way of putting it, his UID can be expressed in 11bits and is therefore obsolete and we should consider dropping support.