[arch-general] [Fwd: [arch-announce] Dropping i686 support]

[Thomas Bohn]

On Wed, April 1, 2009 11:00, M Rawash wrote:

> a more obvious choice would be to stick with archlinux+ABS, remember
> we're just dropping BINARY package support, arch's build tools will
> remain the same, think of it as a less sucky gentoo.

To compile mplayer on my Atom N270 takes forever, I can't imagine to
compile X or Firefox on that machine.

Thomas