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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: 2) by ese002 on Friday January 27 2017, @02:38AM

    by ese002 (5306) on Friday January 27 2017, @02:38AM (#459272)

    With only 1GB of RAM, why run 64-bit? Not only do I not have enough memory to make use of 64-bit addressing, a 64-bit OS has a larger memory footprint.

    Larger memory VPS's are available, of course. But they cost more and aren't needed for my purposes.

    Arch was not an available option. Neither was any flavour of BSD (my first choice).

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