[GLLUG] Arch Linux - Request for Comment]
Chick Tower
c.e.tower at gmail.com
Thu Apr 2 13:28:52 EDT 2009
Well, nevermind. It was apparently an April Fool's joke by the Arch
developers. But Linux Today bit on it, too. Oddly enough, I was
suspicious of almost every article on Slashdot yesterday.
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Chick
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [GLLUG] Arch Linux - Request for Comment
Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2009 17:37:49 -0400
From: Chick Tower <c.e.tower at gmail.com>
Just in case it matters to your friend, Peter, Arch has just announced
that it will be dropping i686 support sometime in the future to focus
exclusively on x86-64 CPUs. They say it shouldn't matter much, since
i686 is "old" hardware, and people can use the Arch Build System (ABS)
to compile new software for i686 architectures. ABS is similar to
FreeBSD's ports system; maybe it's even identical, just translated to Linux.
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