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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 toddestan on Monday January 30 2017, @04:11AM

    by toddestan (4982) on Monday January 30 2017, @04:11AM (#460507)

    Of course, it depends on what you're going to do with it. A P4 would probably not be a very good choice for something that runs 24/7, but if it's only going to see a couple hours a week of use the payback in power savings is going to be a very long time.

    A P4 with 2-3GB of ram should have no problems running most version of Linux. It'll even run Windows 7 in an acceptable manner. Plus there's other 32-bit chips out there too, Pentium M/Core Solo/Core Duo, and they were still making 32-bit Atoms not too long ago (most of which are slower than a P4 anyway).