Arch Linux

Xaero_Vincent

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Registered: 2006-05-11

Posts: 23

Arch newbie

Hello,

I'm a Linux newbie with about 12 years of Windows and 2 months of Ubuntu experience. I just switched from Ubuntu to Arch and really liking what I am seeing.

Despite being an "advanced" distro I find it quite easy to get up and running thanks to the nice people on IRC and the comprehensive wiki pages. Its cool how Pacman can also do dynamic upgrading like APT!

However I am a little disapointed at one aspect...

Arch is only an i686 distribution. Many other distributions (like Ubuntu and Debian) support other architectures like x86_64 and PowerPC and more. I would like to see more architectures supported.

Are there any plans to "offically" port Arch to different architectures like x86_64 and PPC? I looked at the user made ports but they arnt offical and thus might not have the same quality and package support. 

kill

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Registered: 2004-09-30

Posts: 126

Re: Arch newbie

Patience. All in due time. Eventually they will be officially supported. x86_64 is already in the works for becoming an "official" architecture.

neotuli

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From: London, UK

Registered: 2004-07-06

Posts: 1,204

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Re: Arch newbie

Yes, expect x86_64 real soon in fact.

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iBertus

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From: Greenville, NC

Registered: 2004-11-04

Posts: 2,228

Re: Arch newbie

The x86_64 port is already looks very complete. If possible, install it along side your regular Arch and help work the important bugs out.

Xaero_Vincent

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Registered: 2006-05-11

Posts: 23

Re: Arch newbie

Yes, expect x86_64 real soon in fact.

Sweet... thats cool news! 

The PPC port seems to be far behind but maybe someday it can become an official port. Now that Apple is switching their Macs to Intel chips, PowerPC support seems less significant. But it still could be useful for embedded systems that have PPC architecture and maybe the CELL processor?