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

[Aaron Griffin]

On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 2:35 PM, kludge <drkludge at rat-patrol.org> 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
>>>
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>> 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


Yeesh... date +"%m %d"