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Dropping i686 support

Recently the developers have been discussing the possibility of adding some additional optimizations to our i686 port to improve multimedia support. This would involve reducing the compatibility with older systems. As some of you may have heard ([1], Google translation [2]), this discussion has resulted in the decision to focus exclusively on the x86_64 port. The overall opinion of the developers is that the x86_64 port is now complete enough to justify this decision and that this is in keeping with Arch’s philosophy of supporting current generation hardware. The x86_64 architecture has been available since 2002 (compared to i686 which is from 1995), and we believe most of our i686 users have x86_64 compatible hardware.An official time-line for the deprecation of the i686 port has not been established, but an official announcement needs to be made, as the decision has already been leaked to the ArchLinux-BR community. However, it is likely that major updates (GNOME, KDE, Xorg, etc) will not be built for i686 in the immediate future. Users will still be able to build packages for i686 packages using ABS. As most of the architecture specific patches are for x86_64, this should be relatively pain free.

O schimbare majoră, cu un deosebit impact ÎNSĂ destul de credibilă, chiar dacă a apărut pe tam-nesam. Să ne amintim cât de brusc developerii Arch au renunțat complet la KDE seria 3.5.X. Astăzi, ușurarea:

i686 support not being dropped

Hi, Arch Linux users, we are pleased to inform you that the i686 architecture is not going to be dropped from Arch Linux. It all was part of an April Fools joke, in which all the developers and the forum moderators played a big part.

Interestingly, this joke actually did some good. Some of our users discovered that they were, in fact, running 64-bit processors, and many of them switched to the Arch Linux 64-bit version. We encourage anyone who already switched to keep using the 64-bit version, to continue contributing to the architecture and encourage support from other major software vendors.

A prime example of a vendor giving in to the demands of the 64-bit community is Adobe. They’ve recently added 64-bit Linux support to the flash plug-in, for which we thank them.

Sorry for any inconvenience this joke may have caused, but how can we resist a prank on the 1st of April?

Dincolo de gluma destul de tare, m-am tot gândit și eu. Procesorul meu AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 2800+, nucleu Palermo știe de MMX (+), 3DNow! (+), SSE, SSE2, SSE3, x86-64. Și din ce am auzit, mari probleme (în sensul bloatware-ului instalat) sunt aduse de flash. Trecerea la arhitectura pe 64 biți se apropie și pentru mine …


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