I did not liked the idea first, but now I see the benefit of it. I think we should also drop some unsuportted packages that keep crufting the repos since some time. I would suggest going back to Arch's root: BSD. Why not an OpenBSD kernel? Linux is not developped actively enough... ;) 2009/3/31 David Rosenstrauch <darose@xxxxxxxxxx> > Hmmm ... > > My only concern about this is that it's often difficult or impossible to > run an x86_64 distro inside a VM. > > So one very definite negative of this change is that it'd restrict > many/most people's ability to run Arch inside of a VM - something I've done > many times, and have found very convenient, and which would be a shame to > lose. > > Just my $0.02. > > DR > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [arch-announce] Dropping i686 support > Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2009 01:03:08 -0000 > From: Recent News Updates <announce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Reply-To: Arch Linux Announcements <arch-announce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: arch-announce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > 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, Xor > g, 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. [1] <a href=" > http://groups.google.com/group/archlinux-br/browse_thread/thread/d1b6075adf9eba2d > "> > http://groups.google.com/group/archlinux-br/browse_thread/thread/d1b6075adf9eba2d</a> > [2] <a href=" > http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fgroups.google.com%2Fgroup%2Farchlinux-br%2Fbrowse_thread%2Fthread%2Fd1b6075adf9eba2d&sl=pt&tl=en&history_state0= > "> > http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fgroups.google.com%2Fgroup%2Farchlinux-br%2Fbrowse_thread%2Fthread%2Fd1b6075adf9eba2d&sl=pt&tl=en&history_state0= > </a> > > URL: http://www.archlinux.org/news/440/ > _______________________________________________ > arch-announce mailing list > arch-announce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch-announce >
