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? > > URL: http://www.archlinux.org/news/441/ > _______________________________________________ > arch-announce mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch-announce
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 _______________________________________________ arch-announce mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch-announce
