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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 26 2017, @03:12PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 26 2017, @03:12PM (#458954)

    The issue isn't the processor so much as the software.

    TFA and TFS are somewhat unclear about whether this is all 32-bit versions or just the ones that are for i686 based processors. I don't run Arch, but I do regularly use 32bit Linux as Cisco refuses to release a version of Webex that works with 64bit Linux. It works, but you don't get sound and I haven't found anything that allows it to work that doesn't ultimately get back to 32-bit software.

  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday January 26 2017, @06:56PM

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Thursday January 26 2017, @06:56PM (#459054) Homepage Journal

    Same thing when you're talking about Arch. For 32bit code they only had the 686 version.

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