On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 12:24:42 +
Martin Olesen skovproduk...@gmail.com wrote:
2011/12/21 Yorvyk yorvik.ubu...@googlemail.com:
On Wed, 21 Dec 2011 19:14:08 -0300
Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset jpx...@gmail.com wrote:
First, don't kill me for bringing back this topic ;)
Since Lubuntu is official, maybe the cause for dropping i586 is obsolete
(if I remember right it was because none of the flavours could run in it,
so there was no market there).
Aditionally, there's the fact that LTS are the less demanding resource
releases :) (experieced by me with 8.04 and 10.04)
Maybe we could ask nicely, together with Xubuntu, that at least for the LTS
*ubuntu could exist for i586...
I doesn't sound completely crazy to me.
Is there any call for i586 kernel? Has anybody complained of it's absence?
I would imagine there would have to be some numbers produced to justify
it's inclusion.
If I understand this correctly we are dealing with processors 12
(twelve) years old or more having a clock frequency of less than 300
MHz. Such a computer is hardly usable for any practical purpose.
I'd say we (that is, the Buntu community in general) should forget
about them and focus on getting better support for new hardware.
Lubuntu is intended to support older hardware. There are, however, recent
machines, based on the Geode LX chip , that are not fully i686 compatible.
But, how many is the problem. I can understand the Ubuntu devs not wishing to
support large numbers of kernels, especially as there are now a number of ARM
kernels in the repos to be supported. Like the PAE kernel problem, with the
Celeron M, are there enough users to test and support the appropriate kernels.
I really don't know which way to go on this one to be honest. But, in both
cases, it's not just about last centuries hardware.
--
Yorvyk
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