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archlinux developers want to deprecate 32 bit support

From the Arch mailinglist

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Finally found some time to write a draft for news post on i686. Here it is:

Title: i686 is dead, long live i686

Due to the decreasing popularity of i686 among the developers and the community, we have decided to phase out the support of this architecture.

The decision means that February ISO will be the last that allows to install 32 bit Arch Linux. The next 9 months are deprecation period, during which i686 will be still receiving upgraded packages. Starting rom November 2017, packaging and repository tools will no longer require that from maintainers, effectively making i686 unsupported.

However, as there is still some interest in keeping i686 alive, we would like to encourage the community to make it happen with our guidance. Depending on the demand, an official channel and mailing list will be
created for second tier architectures.

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Any suggestions?
Bartłomiej

Does this impact any LQ Arch users?

--jeremy

The way Arch is setup it makes sense, they are about pushing forward with the latest tech. Also, I doubt they have the volunteer base to maintain more than one arch. long term.

Agreed, makes total sense given their bleeding edge focus since there hasn't been a 32-bit only x86 cpu from Intel or AMD in over 5 years.