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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: 1) by loic on Thursday January 26 2017, @01:17PM

    by loic (5844) on Thursday January 26 2017, @01:17PM (#458897)

    I still use x86, for low memory VMs. As by construction, x64 uses some more memory, it is always neat to have a choice.
    My home dev rig uses Manjaro, an Arch derivative and is x64.

    Arch is not exactly your average server distro and probably do not have extensive resources to package and test, that makes definitively sense. But for the few users of old hardware, which may make quite a part of Arch community, it probably sucks hard.