Re: Installation Media and supportability of i386 in 18.04 LTS Re: Ubuntu Desktop on i386

2016-07-01 Thread Bryan Quigley
On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 3:44 PM, Charl Wentzel wrote: > > > On 01/07/2016 21:05, Bryan Quigley wrote: > > Can you elaborate on what specific systems you are purchasing today > that use 32-bit x86 (I believe the only vendors ever were AMD, Intel > and VIA)? > > The

Re: Installation Media and supportability of i386 in 18.04 LTS Re: Ubuntu Desktop on i386

2016-07-01 Thread Charl Wentzel
On 01/07/2016 21:05, Bryan Quigley wrote: Can you elaborate on what specific systems you are purchasing today that use 32-bit x86 (I believe the only vendors ever were AMD, Intel and VIA)? The chipsets are mostly AMD and Intel as you've stated. The vendor I purchase from mostly is iEi. They

Re: Installation Media and supportability of i386 in 18.04 LTS Re: Ubuntu Desktop on i386

2016-07-01 Thread Bryan Quigley
> I use Ubuntu as my main platform on embedded system. There are still many > viable 32-bit platforms that are being manufactured. Can you elaborate on what specific systems you are purchasing today that use 32-bit x86 (I believe the only vendors ever were AMD, Intel and VIA)? Also what is

Re: Installation Media and supportability of i386 in 18.04 LTS Re: Ubuntu Desktop on i386

2016-07-01 Thread Charl Wentzel
On 29/06/2016 15:37, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: Folks, I think we need to understand whether i386 won't be widely used for very small IoT devices and hence be important for developers targeting those. I accept i386 i no longer relevant for PC's and laptops, but I would not be surprised if 32-bit