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 do
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 t
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 ver
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 t
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; i
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 incl