On Thu, 05 May 2011 17:26:32 -0700 Jonathan Marsden <jmars...@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> On 05/05/2011 04:11 PM, Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset wrote: > > > This could also mean that the support for i586 could exist again? > > This should maybe notted somewhere for the goals for when Lubuntu > > become an official derivative :) > > That would be a hard thing to achieve at this point, I think. Ubuntu as > a whole has made a definite decision not to support that class of CPU, > and the Ubuntu build infrastructure has now been set up not to do that > any more. Changing it back to support i586 would be a fairly big deal, > I suspect. > > If this is something you are seriously interested in, perhaps you can > collect names of a few thousand people who would use (L)Ubuntu if only > it ran on their i586-class CPUs? With that sort of clear evidence of > need, it might be easier to persuade the Ubuntu community as a whole to > reconsider supporting it. > i386 is supported in 10.04, so there is a couple more years to come up with a solution if needed. -- Steve Cook (Yorvyk) http://lubuntu.net _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop Post to : lubuntu-desktop@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
