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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: 3, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Thursday January 26 2017, @02:57PM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Thursday January 26 2017, @02:57PM (#458942) Journal

    DSL, yellow dog, and Puppy Linux all come to mind. I don't expect them to drop any old architectures any time soon.

    But, you've pretty much summarized my thoughts. Mixed feelings. I transitioned very early to 64 bit computing. I was impatient with progress every time I found it necessary to load 32 bit libraries. I purchased a Sledgehammer Opteron, and I wanted to use it as it was intended to be used.

    On the other hand, I do have a bunch of old stuff lying around. I want it to keep on working until the electrons just can't flow through it anymore.

    I suspect that I can do both, if I just research the distros a little.

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  • (Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Thursday January 26 2017, @05:24PM

    by LoRdTAW (3755) on Thursday January 26 2017, @05:24PM (#459009) Journal

    DSL is on shaky ground. The site has undergone a few blackout periods in the past few years and the latest stable version is from 2008 and the latest preview from 2012.

    Doesn't mean its useless, I use it a lot on older systems for backups and disk imaging using DD.

    • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday January 27 2017, @01:15AM

      by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Friday January 27 2017, @01:15AM (#459242) Journal

      Wow. Time passes, and maybe I'm getting out of touch. Doesn't seem that long ago that I installed DSL to see how the (then) new release to see how it ran.