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Arch Linux Preparing To Deprecate i686 Support

posted by FatPhil on Thursday January 26 2017, @11:46AM   
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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• "I just want a stable distro" "I just want a stable distro" (Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 26 2017, @02:59PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 26 2017, @02:59PM (#458945)

  That reminds me of a Slashdot comment I read in my youth: Some guy said that he was a long-time Linux user who switched to the Macintosh because he was tired of tinkering and wanted a system that Just Works; at the time, I thought "Well, to each his own, but I love tinkering, and I cannot imagine enjoying a system that doesn't offer such control!"

  Well, my relationship to tinkering has grown cold over the years, and now we're just uncomfortable bedfellows.

  I think this explains the falling out: In my youthful exuberance, I felt my tinkering led me to an ever more perfect creation; yet, what I've found over the years is that the shifting sands of technology and "community" interests means that all of one's carefully crafted work eventually becomes a stagnant, incompatible wasteland. If one doesn't submit to the Tyranny of the Majority, then one is forced to become an old codger, yelling at those short-sighted, sycophantic, disgustingly exuberant youths to get off your command line! Just leave me and my programs alone, you uncouth, ill-bred scalawags!

  I mean, if you're going to acquiesce to the unwashed masses, you might as well be getting some customer service (e.g., from a company that is paid to construct your computing system, like Apple).

  So, to that "old" man on Slashdot: I get it now. Life is short; use a system that eases the suffering.

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• Re:"I just want a stable distro" (Score: 2) by DECbot on Thursday January 26 2017, @09:23PM

  by DECbot (832) on Thursday January 26 2017, @09:23PM (#459149) Journal

  Mate on Xubuntu 12.04?

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  cats~$ sudo chown -R us /home/base

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