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Petition Started for 64-bit and Linux Support on Intel Atom Bay Trail Tablets

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Softpedia; By Silviu Stahie
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The Intel Atom Bay Trail tablets have been out for a few months already, but none of the hardware vendors is providing 64-bit firmware builds for them, which means that you can't install any Linux distros.

When the first Intel Atom Bay Trail-based tablets hit the market, they only arrived with Windows pre-installed, but a bug in a feature called InstaGo prevented Microsoft from providing the 64-bit mode. The platform is also UEFI-powered, so running Linux in a 32-bit mode is not really an option.

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