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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, Funny) by q.kontinuum on Thursday January 26 2017, @03:08PM

    by q.kontinuum (532) on Thursday January 26 2017, @03:08PM (#458952) Journal

    the AMD Duron is a lot slower than a Raspberry Pi 3

    The Duron is the sound system! You don't want to replace good old tubes with modern transistor technique! [theaudioarchive.com], no matter how slow the Duron is. Also, with the higher power consumption it does provide this warm (nostalgic) feeling.

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  • (Score: 5, Interesting) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Thursday January 26 2017, @04:59PM

    by Scruffy Beard 2 (6030) on Thursday January 26 2017, @04:59PM (#459001)

    Anything modern will also be back-doored, so there is that.

    Not sure if the RPI 3 is "small" enough to avoid that.

    I decided years ago the way to avoid treacherous hardware was to go big (Servers), or go small (embedded), since the consumer space was thoroughly sabotaged with DRM.