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Arch Linux phasing out i686 support (archlinux.org)
17 points by andreyv on Jan 26, 2017 | hide | past | favorite | 9 comments


I appreciate distros that continue to offer 32-bit options. They have given old computers new leases on life and distros like arch allow these users to run the latest and greatest software on such hardware. I feel the days of being able to run a popular Linux distro on "any" hardware (old or new) are unfortunately numbered with many major distributions dropping 32-bit support.


In 2009 this was their April Fools Joke: https://www.archlinux.org/news/dropping-i686-support/


$325/mo for residential water in Atlanta? That's nuts.

Here just north of Philly, we've seen water/sewer service go up substantially in the past 5 years, but it's no more than $50/mo IIRC.


Wrong thread?


But how will I install it on a ThinkPad T41?


Interesting move, I guess it makes sense.


Interesting times, we live in. We now may need more than 4GB of RAM (per process) just so we could read email and browse the Web.


Actually on my ubuntu 14.04 machine due to a bug I do need more than 4GB of RAM to do just that. Since the machine only has 4 GB of RAM I really appreciate swap space :)


2017, about time.




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