On 2 February 2016 at 07:58, Stefan Bader <stefan.ba...@canonical.com> wrote: > On 01.02.2016 23:14, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Ubuntu has an i386 port which is fully supported. >> >> There a bunch of 3rd party applications that rely on the Multi-Arch >> technology to support/use i386 binaries on amd64 (e.g. Skype from the >> partner archive). BTW, can we ask Microsoft to publish native amd64 >> binaries, rather than those that rely on multi-arch i386? Also, does >> Valve Steam product rely on i386 multiarch binaries? or is it fully >> amd64? (and e.g. downloads/bundles/ships any required i386 binaries >> that it needs)? And Netflix - does that run on amd64-only without i386 >> multiarch? >> >> However, it seems to me that this is done specifically on otherwise >> full amd64 installations. >> >> My guess is that: all currently shipped hardware, with enough support >> to run full Unity (7) Desktop, is amd64. Tested with amd64 kernel, and >> amd64 graphics drivers. And hardware validation is done on amd64 too. >> >> In 2016, people with i386-only hardware are unlikely to be capable to >> run Unity 7 Desktop, and probably run other Ubuntu variants. I guess >> there are some accidental i386 users, e.g. those that have installed >> i386 variant on amd64 hardware. > > Just wondering whether you considered netbooks here. Not that old (maybe 6y?) > and at least the two specimens I would have around are early Atoms (i386 only) > but with (also early) i915 Intel graphics. They used to be reasonably > accelerated to cope. Not sure about unity 7. But maybe some reason to allow at > least for 16.04 some i386 iso (by 18.04 the problem might be resolved through > the crappy life-span recent hw seems to have)... >
My argument here would be that, such a netbook already has Ubuntu on it. And that one would not want to /install/ it, but only /upgrade/ it to 16.04 LTS. And thus archive-only support is sufficient for it. > -Stefan >> >> Does it still make sense to build ubuntu-desktop-i386.iso? Validate >> it? Test it on amd64 hardware? Ship it? >> >> To me this seems like a futile effort. Imho, we should only test the >> relevant multiarch i386 pieces that are there to support 3rd-party, >> i386-only apps on amd64 desktop. >> >> This is specifically about building, validating and shipping >> ubuntu-desktop-i386.iso, specifically for the Ubuntu Desktop flavour. >> Which I am suggesting should be dropped. Without any other changes to >> the archive and/or publishing i386 binaries. >> > > -- Regards, Dimitri. -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel