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1 | ## Phasing out i386 Support in Dragonfly - Discussion |
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| 3 | On IRC a discussion started if - and how - i386 support in DragonFly BSD should be phased out in the next e.g. 2 years. |
| 4 | This page should serve as a central point to note down arguments, pro/cons etc in a structured and organized way to prevent the discussion to repeat over and over again using the same point, etc. |
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| 6 | Points noted down here can be totally subjective and be posted anonymously - but I would like to suggest that you mark them with you name or irc nick. They should be formulated concise and as short as possbile (no poetry please). |
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| 8 | lentferj |
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| 13 | ### Pros and Cons on removing i386 |
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| 15 | * #### Pros |
| 16 | * free developer resources to concentrate on x86-64 (lentferj) |
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| 18 | * #### Cons |
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| 22 | ### Pros and Cons on turning 3.4-i386 into a bug-fix-only release with LTS for about 2 years, but no more feature updates |
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| 25 | * #### Pros |
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| 28 | * #### Cons |
| 29 | * i386 user base might still be pretty big (has to be evaluated) and would be curtained off also from none-64bit specific improvments. |
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| 33 | ### Pros and Cons on keeping i386 alive in the same way as it is now (e.g. there will be a i386-3.6 release, etc), but announcing i386 EOL for end of 2014. |
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| 35 | * #### Pros |
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| 38 | * #### Cons |
| 39 | * ... |
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