SUSE developers working on their modern Agama operating system installer used by SUSE Linux Enterprise 16 and openSUSE is out with a new release. With Agama 18 they have officially dropped support for 32-bit / i586 processors.
The Agama 18 OS installer brings improvements to its storage management section of the installer, better handling of the JSON configuration for OS installations, self-update functionality for the installer, and work toward supporting openSUSE Kalpa installations.
As part of bringing up openSUSE Tumbleweed with Agama, the Agama 18 release officially dropped support for i586. This was driven by the fact of not having any web browser builds for 32-bit in Tumbleweed. The Agama installer developers say they are not opposed to re-enabling i586 builds in the future but someone would need to deal with those i586 dependency shortcomings.
Those wishing to learn more about the SUSE Agama 18 release can do so via the Agama blog.
