On Tue, 30 May 2017 11:55:49 -0400, Megver83 wrote: > Hi, as you may know, in November Arch drops i686 support, and I was > thinking about doing the same. Is not that I'm against of maintaining > it, because if that's what the community wishes, I have no problem > about. As we know, there are plenty of distros that are still available > for i686 (free ones and non-free ones), and as x64 PCs are much more > than 32-bits ones (we could do a survey maybe?) I start to understand > the reason of dropping the support for this architecture. > > so, what do you think?
Previous discussion: https://lists.parabola.nu/pipermail/dev/2017-January/004735.html Summary: - several people voiced that they have an i686 computer that they'd like to keep using: hackers: (3) emulatorman, gaming4jc, and myself users: (1) Nathan Edson Of these we've lost emulatorman as a hacker since then. - Because of libreboot, i686 is over-represented in Free-Software circles compared to the general population; a user interested in Parabola is more likely to have an i686 computer than a user interested in Arch. (By my count, 17%-22% of the libreboot compatibility list is i686, depending on if you want to count the T60, which can be cheaply upgraded to x86_64). -- Happy hacking, ~ Luke Shumaker _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.parabola.nu/mailman/listinfo/dev
