On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 17:03 +0000, Recent News Updates wrote:

Hi, Arch Linux users, we are pleased to inform you that the i686 architecture is not going to be dropped from Arch Linux. It all was part of an April Fools joke, in which all the developers and the forum moderators played a big part. Interestingly, this joke actually did some good. Some of our users discovered that they were, in fact, running 64-bit processors, and many of them switched to the Arch Linux 64-bit version. We encourage anyone who already switched to keep using the 64-bit version, to continue contributing to the architecture and encourage support from other major software vendors. A prime example of a vendor giving in to the demands of the 64-bit community is Adobe. They've recently added 64-bit Linux support to the flash plug-in, for which we thank them. Sorry for any inconvenience this joke may have caused, but how can we resist a prank on the 1st of April?

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Hi Guys, First post to this group after 2 years of Arch being my primary distro. It's the best, thanks to you. I had my doubts about i686 being dropped after almost being fooled by last years German language hoax. Brilliant guys-I'm glad that you've all got such a great sense of humour behind that superior technical knowledge which mainly goes over my head. Keep it up. Having plenty of spare time on my hands at age 72 yrs I installed Arch 64 ftp yesterday and got everything working beautifully. I then got gftp to work and copied over all my files including bookmarks and emails from the 32 bit 2 year old Arch machine which is now a "backup". Regards gnu2 downunder