Just to be clear this would not obsolete any machines (at least not yet). You could still install Lubuntu/Xubuntu and then run Audacity*. And of course upgrades would still work.
Many of the packages included in Ubuntu Studio do require a certain amount of power to work well. Obviously there will still be some machines that could run it well that are only 32-bit. A third option to consider would be to somehow promote the 64-bit image more (or slightly hide the 32-bit image). We do believe there is a significant number of people that could use the 64-bit version but don't know and end up picking the 32-bit one. * My albeit 2 year old experience with Audacity was that I found it slow on my older hardware at the time. On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 1:24 PM, <lukefro...@hushmail.com> wrote: > One issue in audio is that huge numbers of older 32 bit machines considered > "slower than smartphones" for huge, JS heavy websites and Internet video are > still as good for audio work as they ever were. The very first Pentium 4's > were > able to run things like Audacity with no video rendering glitches for realtime > spectrum display, and back on 2004 I even did audio news reports on an > original Pentium laptop and in another location on Pentium II's. On those > machines realtime spectrum display lagged badly but the recordings were fine. > > On the other hand, using a phone for editing news audio would not be fun ay > all as fingers are not high precision pointers. > > This being so, there is no reason for any existing set of dedicated audio > workstations > to be replaced on grounds of hardware age unless they either deal with online > (and > overweight) websites or have physically died of component failure. > > Newer distros may well decide to target newer machines simply to limit the > range they > have to support, but if this is so the value of backporting newer editing > programs into older > distros (as optional not mandatory updates) rises a lot. > > On 7/19/2016 at 12:45 PM, "Set Hallstrom" <s...@ubuntustudio.org> wrote: >> >>Hi, >> >>Thanks for reaching out! >> >>On 2016-07-11 20:50, Bryan Quigley wrote: >> >>> >>> *Wait until after 18.04 and then reconsider dropping i386* >>> >> >>This is what i am in favor of. >> >>That is: I am also in favor of keeping 32bit version. I also value >>the >>ecological aspect of reusing old machines, and motivating friends >>and >>acquaintances to reuse their old machine as an excuse to introduce >>them >>to FLOSS, as Len and Yoshi express. Given the small size of the >>team, >>i'm sure we would save a lot of sweat by dropping 32-bit. But i >>think >>that argument says more about the work we need to do to repopulate >>the >>team, than what system we should support or not. >> >>On that note, i'd like to say: Welcome to the list, Yoshi. :) >> >>-- >>Set Hallstrom aka sakrecoer > > > -- > ubuntu-studio-devel mailing list > ubuntu-studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel -- ubuntu-studio-devel mailing list ubuntu-studio-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
