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 cykros on Friday January 27 2017, @06:49AM
Slackware is NOT a source distribution, though there are included tools and available repositories of source based packages (sbopkg and slackbuilds.com being the most well known in those categories). .t?z packages are binary packages and the system is installed from such packages, with some repositories also being available for non-included software (Alienbob's repo probably the most well known here, able to be access with slackpkg+ in a similar fashion to using apt-get).
I guess the point is, it's not nearly as time consuming as installing and keeping up to date an actual source based distribution such as Gentoo. Anyone who's ever compiled VLC from source will agree that perhaps it's better not to have to. Slackware got it's name because it IS designed for slackers. Just not corner cutters.