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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 Friday January 27 2017, @07:49AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 27 2017, @07:49AM (#459371)

    Let's see
    Firewalls: check (for reasons.. Very loosely based on the last 32bit release of a distro I shall not name, kept up to date from a mix of source tarballs and recompiled packages)
    IDS Boxes: check (see firewall above)
    Thin Clients: check (Transmeta Crusoe boards)
    Laptops: Check (still a couple running 32bit Linux)
    Netbooks: Check (IA-32 Atom based, the damn things are nearly indestructible especially since they've been retrofitted with SSDs)
    VMs: Check (running on Windows, Linux and Mac hosts)
    so, not so dead here..

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 27 2017, @11:13AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 27 2017, @11:13AM (#459412)

    should have added..
    Arch Linux?, no..and won't consider the main distro as a thing I'd install as it's systemd infected...
    (before flames..yes I have and *do* run machines with systemd infected distros (actually, I'm down to a single machine now with a systemd infection, a laptop, and that's only surviving as I rarely need to use it for its 'nefarious' single purpose in life..)