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Arch Linux Preparing To Deprecate i686 Support

posted by FatPhil on Thursday January 26 2017, @11:46AM   Printer-friendly
from the all-the-world's-a-Cray dept.

"exec" writes in with this story from Phoronix

Arch Linux is moving ahead with preparing to deprecate i686 (x86 32-bit) support in their distribution.

Due to declining usage of Arch Linux i686, they will be phasing out official support for the architecture. Next month's ISO spin will be the last for offering a 32-bit Arch Linux install. Following that will be a nine month deprecation period where i686 packages will still see updates.

Any Soylentils still making major use of 32-bit x86? And any of you using Arch Linux? Distrowatch still lists Arch Linux as a top 10 distribution.

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  • (Score: 2) by TheGratefulNet on Thursday January 26 2017, @12:47PM

    by TheGratefulNet (659) on Thursday January 26 2017, @12:47PM (#458887)

    the oldest system I would tend to use would be a core2 duo or something of that age. that's 64bit for sure. I have a laptop that shipped with win7-32 on that c2duo but its still a proper 64bit machine.

    still, its a shame to remove good code that COULD be useful, in a pinch. I wonder what makes them want to remove it. is it really getting in the way? perhaps just leave it as 'untested' but still leave the code in.

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  • (Score: 2) by TheGratefulNet on Thursday January 26 2017, @03:07PM

    by TheGratefulNet (659) on Thursday January 26 2017, @03:07PM (#458951)

    just thought of a 32bit system I still care about: older atom fanless mini-itx boxes that make good firewalls or audio playback/headless systems.

    voyage linux used to be a good choice but it looks like its been a long time since it had updates.

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  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday January 26 2017, @06:52PM

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Thursday January 26 2017, @06:52PM (#459047) Homepage Journal

    Well, as near as I can tell, it's because Arch is/wants to be a desktop distro and they don't really make 32bit desktop processors for quite some time now.

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