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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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Arch Linux Preparing To Deprecate i686 Support
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 26 2017, @01:25PM
The multilib support stays (that is all the lib32-packages that provide 32bit libraries ready to run on a 64bit base system).
32bit intel packages are also not entirely out of the question: If volunteers step up and take the burden, the packages will stick around -- a bit outside of the official builds, but still very visible in Arch-Land. If nobody can be bothered to step up and take over building and testing the 32bit packages, then they deserve to die:-)
(Score: 5, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 26 2017, @03:01PM
32bit intel packages are also not entirely out of the question: If volunteers step up and take the burden, the packages will stick around
I wouldn't be so sure.
When Arch announced the switch to systemd, they said the same thing about volunteers stepping up and take over maintaining sysvinit. They then spent the next two weeks banning anyone who tried to volunteer from the Arch forums.