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.
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.
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! 🥳
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).
The xz versions 5.6.0 and 5.6.1 should be considered harmful in Archlinux32,
especially the last versions installed:
xz-5.6.1-1.0-pentium4
xz-5.6.1-1.0-i686
xz-5.6.0-1.0-i486
Make sure that the following versions or newer are installed:
xz-5.6.1-2.0-pentium4
xz-5.6.1-2.0-i686
xz-5.6.1-3.0-i486
| pd-lua 0.12.15-1.0 | pentium4 |
| plocate 1.1.22-3.0 | pentium4 |
| buildkit 0.16.0-1.0 | pentium4 |
| docker-buildx 0.17.0-1.0 | pentium4 |
| wasm-component-ld 0.5.8-1.0 | pentium4 |
| tolua++ 1.0.93-5.0 | i486 |
| trayer 1.1.8-4.0 | i486 |
| tre 0.8.0-7.0 | i486 |
| toolame 02l-15.0 | i486 |
| transmission-remote-gtk 1.5.1-2.0 | i486 |
| mac 10.76-1.0 | i486 |
| sslscan 2.1.4-1.0 | i486 |
| breeze-plymouth 6.1.2-1.0 | i686 |
| kwayland-integration 6.1.4-1.0 | i686 |
| palp 1:2.21-4.0 | i686 |