Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] i386 architecture will be dropped starting with eoan (Ubuntu 19.10)

Hi, Ubuntu 18.04 is supported until 2028, so there will still be this option until 2028 for i386 <--> Michel Memeteau - Directeur. Tchater directement avec nous

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] i386 architecture will be dropped starting with eoan (Ubuntu 19.10)

That may be practical in the US and Europe, but far less practical for say, an activist media maker in a Rio favela opposing Bolsonaro's efforts to "cleanse" the city of the poor. S/he might be limited to the hardware on hand, and an upgrade requirement will be translated into a change distro or

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] i386 architecture will be dropped starting with eoan (Ubuntu 19.10)

That may be practical in the US and Europe, but far less practical for say, an activist media maker in a Rio favela opposing Bolsonaro's efforts to "cleanse" the city of the poor. S/he might be limited to the hardware on hand, and an upgrade requirement will be translated into a change distro or

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] i386 architecture will be dropped starting with eoan (Ubuntu 19.10)

It’s time to move on. Having 1GB of RAM is no longer acceptable in computing today. We need to move forward. You could have argued that point in 2010 to some success but it’s 2019. 2019! They will need to upgrade. > On Jun 21, 2019, at 9:33 AM, Luigino Bracci wrote: > > I also disagree with

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] i386 architecture will be dropped starting with eoan (Ubuntu 19.10)

I also disagree with this decision. In my country, there is A LOT of hardware (minilaptops, old computers) with just 1 GB of RAM; those computers have 64-bit CPUs, but we recommend installing 32-bit distros on them, because the performance of a 64-bit distribution in 1 GB of RAM is disappointing;

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] i386 architecture will be dropped starting with eoan (Ubuntu 19.10)

It may take a while for New York City's used electronics to percolate down to thefavelas in Rio or back streets in San Salvador, and longer yet to rural Africaand other places will a smaller population of migrants to the US who can sendstuff home. As a practical matter this may mean using older

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] i386 architecture will be dropped starting with eoan (Ubuntu 19.10)

On Fri, 21 Jun 2019 11:33:53 -0400, Luigino Bracci wrote: >I apologize for the rudeness of what I'm going to say, but stop >creating 32-bit distributions is a decision that seems taken by people >living in New York, having computers with 16 GB of RAM and 1 TB SSDs, >and believing that the rest of

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] i386 architecture will be dropped starting with eoan (Ubuntu 19.10)

I also disagree with this decision. In my country, there is A LOT of hardware (minilaptops, old computers) with just 1 GB of RAM; those computers have 64-bit CPUs, but we recommend installing 32-bit distros on them, because the performance of a 64-bit distribution in 1 GB of RAM is disappointing;

Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] i386 architecture will be dropped starting with eoan (Ubuntu 19.10)

Hello Steve, >Last year, the Ubuntu developer community considered the question of whether >to continue carrying forward the i386 architecture in the Ubuntu archive for >future releases.[1]  The discussion at the time was inconclusive, but in >light of the strong possibility that we might not