[jasonkostempski]

FreeBSD did this too, right after I had just setup a local Minecraft server on an old Pentium D. It's a shame because it works perfectly for that purpose and now it'll just have to sit on FreeBSD 10 for the rest of it's life. I don't plan expose it to the outside world so that's OK for me, but surely 32-bit machines still have a purpose.

[floatboth]

Um, what?! Where did you find that?

https://www.freebsd.org/where.html 11-RELEASE and 12-CURRENT snapshots are still being published for i386!

[rolodato]

Pentium D does support x64 as far as I can tell: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_D

> The Pentium D brand refers to two series of desktop dual-core 64-bit x86-64 microprocessors with the NetBurst microarchitecture, which is the dual-core variant of Pentium 4 "Prescott" manufactured by Intel.

[jasonkostempski]

Blerg, sorry, I have no clue where I got mixed up on this. I think I got confused with Drangonfly because I was going to try that at shortly after I got FreeBSD set up just to compare. FreeBSD seems to be going strong with i386.

[ftigeot]

As far as I know, the only BSD operating system to drop 32-bit support was DragonFly, back in 2014: https://www.dragonflybsd.org/release40/

[JdeBP]

PC-BSD dropped it with version 9.2, in 2013.

* https://blog.pcbsd.org/2013/06/pc-bsd-status-update/

[peatmoss]

OpenBSD and NetBSD both support i386 if you're looking for a BSD option.

[jlgaddis]

Yeah, so does FreeBSD. OP is mistaken.