On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 4:09 PM, Grigorios Bouzakis <grbzks@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > i am getting my new shinny Quad Core desktop machine tomorrow and i am > thinking of running x86_64 on that machine. > I never really did bother getting familiar with that part of Archlinux > until now since i didnt have a reason to. Browsing the wiki and forum > today made me realise that there is no x86_64 specific mailing list. > There is only the arch-ports one but this one seems to be mostly PPC > related. > Is there any chance of having a seperate mailing list for x86_64 any > time soon? Adding the i686 to the arch-general description too & even > renaming the list to archlinux-i686 or similar would imho be great too > since we all agree the x86_64 port is supported officially and is here > to stay. > Yes, i know it has been renamed not too long ago but i think its a good > idea. Why would we do this? The point of having two architectures in one distribution is to MERGE things, not further separate them.
