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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, @08:37PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 26 2017, @08:37PM (#459118)

    I have a couple of old AthlonXP desktops that I only rarely power-on. I recently powered one up and did all the software updates...only to realize the Firefox update killed it (no support for CPU's with SSE2) and none of the other big/mainstream browsers supported it either (best I came up with was Dillo.)

  • (Score: 1) by UncleSlacky on Thursday January 26 2017, @09:11PM

    by UncleSlacky (2859) on Thursday January 26 2017, @09:11PM (#459139)

    Midori or Qupzilla might run OK on it.

  • (Score: 2) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Thursday January 26 2017, @10:02PM

    by Scruffy Beard 2 (6030) on Thursday January 26 2017, @10:02PM (#459168)

    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.