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.
(Score: 2) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Thursday January 26 2017, @10:02PM
Firefox-esr 45.6.0 works on my PentiumII-350Mhz machine (stupidly slowly). It does not even have SSE support.
Maybe your distro is dropping i686 support as well.
I *did* run into that problem with Chromium though. It is particularly bad for old AMD systems because they lag behind one generation with the SSE support.