kludge wrote: >>> Yeah, you better do. >>> >>> It's about time the obsolete i686 branch vanished. Everyone who's >>> still wanting it must be a weenie, and there's no place for those >>> in the Arch philosophy -- go try Redhat or something. >>> >>> My 2 cents. >>> >>> Leslie >>> >>> -- >>> LinkedIn Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/polzer >>> Xing Profile: https://www.xing.com/profile/LeslieP_Polzer >>> Blog: http://blog.viridian-project.de/ >>> >>> >> Please think of poor countries and people living there. Are they all >> weenies? >> >> >> > > leslie: fuck you and your macho-nerd, myth-of-progress bullshit. > > all the rest: i'm really upset with this decision. the basic > assumption that anyone who matters is spending money on new hardware is > fucked-up. > > i love my computer, and i love archlinux. having made the rounds from > debian to ubuntu to lfs to gentoo, arch offers the perfect balance of > customizeability, low-level control, and binary-package convenience. > > but several years ago, i made the conscious and principled choice to > *not* buy new hardware. i don't want to start an argument about it, > just state that the costs to me and the world (economic and > environmental) of running the latest-model rat race is not worth it. > > so a distro that let's me keep my system this stream-lined is perfect. > my main box is a thinkpad a21m (p3 800 mhz, 512 mb ram, nine years old) > and it does everything i need it to do because it doesn't do anything i > don't want it to do. and that's thanks to arch. i *know* i'm not the > only one who values arch *specifically* because its simplicity and > felixibility prove that old does not mean obsolete. > > so, sure i could go abs and compile everything, but the reason i quit > gentoo and lfs is that neither i nor my computer have the available > cycles for that. > > i've been running linux exclusively for the last seven years, and arch > is the first distro i've used that i've felt any real love or loyalty > for. it's the first distro, with its attendant community, that's > inspired me to kick back and contribute. it's taught me an enormous > amount, and much of what i've learned i've learned specifically so i can > contribute back to the community. > > it's distressing that a change this monumental happened apparently > without any consultation with the community-at-large. maybe it ain't a > rational response, but i feel a bit betrayed. > > i haven't got the technical expertise or time to make spear-head it, but > i would definitely throw down on maintaining i686 packages in a > community-managed repo. are there other archers out there who don't > feel like (or can't) buy new hardware just because the developers claim > we're obsolete? let's organize. > > -kludge > i know there are a few hours left, but may i ROFL now, please? xDDD
