A simple, lightweight distribution for 32-bit CPUs

You've reached the website for Arch Linux 32, the community maintained continuation of 32-bit support for Arch Linux, a lightweight and flexible Linux® distribution that tries to Keep It Simple.

Currently we have official packages optimized for the i686 and pentium4 architectures. Also most(ly) non-graphical packages are available for i486, too. Have a look at the required cpu flags to decide which architecture is the right one for you. Most packages from Arch Linux's community-operated package repository are also compatible with Arch Linux 32.

Installation media which boot on i686 can be found here.

Join us on #archlinux32 IRC channel on Libera, check out our forums or subscribe to the mailing list to get your feet wet. Also glance through the Arch Wiki if you want to learn more about upstream Arch.

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Manual intervention for pacman 7.0.0 and local repositories required

2024-09-14

With the release of version 7.0.0 pacman has added support for downloading packages as a separate user with dropped privileges.

For users with local repos however this might imply that the download user does not have access to the files in question, which can be fixed by assigning the files and folder to the alpm group and ensuring the executable bit (+x) is set on the folders in question.

$ chown :alpm -R /path/to/local/repo

Remember to merge the .pacnew files to apply the new default.

Pacman also introduced a change to improve checksum stability for git repos that utilize .gitattributes files. This might require a one-time checksum change for PKGBUILDs that use git sources.

The sshd service needs to be restarted after upgrading to openssh-9.8p1

2024-07-01

After upgrading to openssh-9.8p1, the existing SSH daemon will be unable to accept new connections (see https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/openssh/-/issues/5).
When upgrading remote hosts, please make sure to restart the sshd service using systemctl try-restart sshd right after upgrading.

We are evaluating the possibility to automatically apply a restart of the sshd service on upgrade in a future release of the openssh-9.8p1 package.

Arch Linux 2024 Leader Election Results

2024-04-15

Recently we held our leader election, and the previous Project Leader Levente "anthraxx" Polyák ran again while no other people were nominated for the role.

As per our election rules he is re-elected for a new term.

The role of of the project lead within Arch Linux is connected to a few responsibilities regarding decision making (when no consensus can be reached), handling financial matters with SPI and overall project management tasks.

Congratulations to Levente and all the best wishes for another successful term! 🥳

Increasing the default vm.max_map_count value

2024-04-07

The vm.max_map_count parameter will be increased from the default 65530 value to 1048576.

This change should help address performance, crash or start-up issues for a number of memory intensive applications, particularly for (but not limited to) some Windows games played through Wine/Steam Proton. Overall, end users should have a smoother experience out of the box with no expressed concerns about potential downsides in the related proposal on arch-dev-public mailing list.

This vm.max_map_count increase is introduced in the 2024.04.07-1 release of the filesystem package and will be effective right after the upgrade.

Before upgrading, in case you are already setting your own value for that parameter in a sysctl.d configuration file, either remove it (to switch to the new default value) or make sure your configuration file will be read with a higher priority than the /usr/lib/sysctl.d/10-arch.conf file (to supersede the new default value).

Older News

2024-03-31
xz backdoor in Archlinux32
2024-03-29
The xz package has been backdoored
2024-03-04
mkinitcpio hook migration and early microcode
2024-01-09
Making dbus-broker our default D-Bus daemon
2023-12-04
Bugtracker migration to GitLab completed
2023-11-02
Incoming changes in JDK / JRE 21 packages may require manual intervention
2023-09-22
Changes to default password hashing algorithm and umask settings
2023-07-28
Shim packages required for 'icu'
2023-06-24
New package signing keys
2023-05-23
Git Migration
2023-05-16
upstream git migration
2023-04-29
In case of key problems
2023-03-31
Dropping Haskell
2022-11-17
OpenSSL 3.0.7
2022-10-30
systemd 251.2 breaks logins
2022-05-12
CA certificates file is empty
2022-02-01
ISO 2022.02.01 available
2022-01-07
error while loading shared libraries: libicui18n.so.68
2022-01-07
Warning about upgrading to zstd 1.5.1
2022-01-07
nss 3.73 crashes firefox
2021-10-25
libffi.so.7: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

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