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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: 1) by Triddle on Friday January 27 2017, @02:12AM

    by Triddle (4617) on Friday January 27 2017, @02:12AM (#459267)

    Perhaps, but my Acer netbook still runs pretty well, and given the size it is very convenient when I don't wish to cart my 64 bit notebook around. I'd also care a lot less if it was stolen or damaged.

    Both run FreeBSD perfectly well, although only 32 bit on the netbook of course. If a Linux distro won't run on hardware like that then fine, but it doesn't mean that hardware has ceased to exist or be useful.