On 64-bit Ubuntu systems, the Chromium packages previously depended on ia32-libs. Now that the browser can be built natively for 64-bit systems, it no longer has that requirement.

32-bit software should be functionally obsolete, but it turns out to live on in a 64-bit computing world. So, Canonical is putting 32-bit libraries back in to its next Ubuntu Linux releases.

Are 64-bit ARM processors ready for the datacenter? Applied Micro and Canonical claim they are with an upcoming demo of the OpenStack cloud using Ubuntu Linux on an X-Gene server.