Stories
Slash Boxes
Comments

SoylentNews is people

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.

Original Submission

 
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.
Arch Linux Preparing To Deprecate i686 Support | Log In/Create an Account | Top | 77 comments | Search Discussion
Display Options Threshold/Breakthrough Mark All as Read Mark All as Unread
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.

  • (Score: 2) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Thursday January 26 2017, @09:54PM

    by Scruffy Beard 2 (6030) on Thursday January 26 2017, @09:54PM (#459160)

    My PentiumII-350 is running an SMP kernel with PAE support because it is recommended for that machine (debian).

    Never mind that it only physically supports 384MB of RAM.

    I guess we may not even be disagreeing since my use-case does not have any programs using more than 2GB of memory. (I do have that much swap available -- but the system would be unusable (more than it already is)).

    Starting Score:    1  point
    Karma-Bonus Modifier   +1  
    Total Score:   2