Arch Linux Officially Kills 32-Bit Support, Migrate to Arch Linux 32 Fork Now

Posted by hanuca on Nov 8, 2017 12:45 PM EDT
Softpedia; By Marius Nestor
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The Arch Linux devs announced today that they are officially terminating support for 32-bit architectures, removing all i686 packages from the repositories by the end of the month.

Arch Linux 2017.02.01 was the last monthly ISO snapshot released with 32-bit support, as all ISO snapshots that followed included only 64-bit packages, but existing 32-bit installations were still supported for a 9-month period during which users were had to move to 64-bit.

That support ends today, November 8, 2017, effective immediately, and all 32-bit (i686) packages will be removed from the Arch Linux's mirrors by the end of the month, as well as from its repositories by the end of the year.

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