Re: [Dev] Future of i686

2017-01-29 Thread David Pizarro
And what about other popular Arch-based distros? Are they also leaving i686? There are many Manjaro's packages in Parabolas' repository, and if maybe one of these distros continue giving support for i686 we could use its packages. We need to do some investigation only. In the other hand, [multi

Re: [Dev] Future of i686

2017-01-27 Thread Luke Shumaker
On Thu, 26 Jan 2017 09:52:09 -0500, Isaac David wrote: > somebody on irc correctly pointed out that some of the i945 > thinkpads were sold with core 2 duo, as opposed to core duo, > cpus. those are 64-bit, and it should be possible to buy a used > chipset and upgrade for cheap. That's the T60 and

Re: [Dev] Future of i686

2017-01-26 Thread Dika Setya Prayogi
if parabola continue support of i686 maybe it can gain interest of retired i686 arch user :) ___ Dev mailing list Dev@lists.parabola.nu https://lists.parabola.nu/mailman/listinfo/dev

Re: [Dev] Future of i686

2017-01-26 Thread Luke
On 01/26/2017 02:52 PM, Isaac David wrote: > Le jeu. 26 janv. 2017 à 2:50, André Silva a > écrit : >> On 01/25/2017 11:13 PM, Luke Shumaker wrote: >>> Arch just announced that they are phasing out i686 support, and expect >>> to have it totally dropped in November. >>> >>> https://www.archlinux

Re: [Dev] Future of i686

2017-01-26 Thread Isaac David
Le jeu. 26 janv. 2017 à 2:50, André Silva a écrit : On 01/25/2017 11:13 PM, Luke Shumaker wrote: Arch just announced that they are phasing out i686 support, and expect to have it totally dropped in November. https://www.archlinux.org/news/phasing-out-i686-support/ Do we want to keep i686

Re: [Dev] Future of i686

2017-01-25 Thread Josh Branning
On 26/01/17 03:42, Nathan Edson wrote: On 01/25/17 - 09:13pm, Luke Shumaker wrote: On one hand, i686 is increasingly obscure. On the other hand, I'd hate to have to stop using my X60 tablet. I also have an X60 that I'd like to keep going. Since this is one of the few libre laptops available,

Re: [Dev] Future of i686

2017-01-25 Thread Nathan Edson
On 01/25/17 - 09:13pm, Luke Shumaker wrote: > On one hand, i686 is increasingly obscure. On the other hand, I'd > hate to have to stop using my X60 tablet. I also have an X60 that I'd like to keep going. Since this is one of the few libre laptops available, it would seem to make sense to continue

Re: [Dev] Future of i686

2017-01-25 Thread André Silva
On 01/25/2017 11:51 PM, André Silva wrote: > On 01/25/2017 11:50 PM, André Silva wrote: >> +1 With recent discussions about security issues from Arch [0], i think >> is the time to begin build our distro from scratch with autobuilder >> or/and a build server (Arch ARM does it to maintain their pack

Re: [Dev] Future of i686

2017-01-25 Thread André Silva
On 01/25/2017 11:50 PM, André Silva wrote: > +1 With recent discussions about security issues from Arch [0], i think > is the time to begin build our distro from scratch with autobuilder > or/and a build server (Arch ARM does it to maintain their packages). > Could we use winston for it? How's the

Re: [Dev] Future of i686

2017-01-25 Thread André Silva
On 01/25/2017 11:13 PM, Luke Shumaker wrote: > Arch just announced that they are phasing out i686 support, and expect > to have it totally dropped in November. > > https://www.archlinux.org/news/phasing-out-i686-support/ > > Do we want to keep i686 alive past that in Parabola? > > On one hand, i

[Dev] Future of i686

2017-01-25 Thread Luke Shumaker
Arch just announced that they are phasing out i686 support, and expect to have it totally dropped in November. https://www.archlinux.org/news/phasing-out-i686-support/ Do we want to keep i686 alive past that in Parabola? On one hand, i686 is increasingly obscure. On the other hand, I'd hate to