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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 jdavidb on Thursday January 26 2017, @04:58PM

    by jdavidb (5690) on Thursday January 26 2017, @04:58PM (#458998) Homepage Journal

    I still use 32 bit Linux (Ubuntu) every time I set up a virtual machine with VirtualBox. These are usually shortlived and not used for anything in production, but the last time I tried to run a 64 bit machine with VirtualBox I had to change the BIOS on my host machine and never could seem to get it to work. Is there a distribution that is going to continue to support 32 bit architecture for awhile? Or is it possible running a 64 bit guest OS with VirtualBox is not as hard as I think it is?

    I'd like to know what suggestions people have, including if they think I should be doing something completely differently.

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