On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 22:58, Chris Leng <rookie999...@gmail.com> wrote: > err... > I have to say, at the very beginning, the reason why I chose Arch was > my old hardware: P4 2.0G (32bit) and 512MB DDR RAM. > If i686 support was drooped someday, how about my old computer? > I cannot cast it, however.
I think that x86_64 is the way to go. We need to start making the transition sooner rather than later. I don't see what could be a reasonable reason for staying with i686 for much longer. We have x86_64 support in Java and Flash. For the applications that cannot make the transition as quickly, we have a transparent translation 32bit -> 64bit layer. In summary, let's move on up (to x86_64). -- Sincerely, Antony Jepson / <anton...@gmail.com> / GPG Key: 0xFA10ED80
