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[Fredrik Andersson <fredrikfritte@xxxxxxxxx>]

I dont know anything about packaging and all but, if there was possible to make Lubuntu compatible for i586 that would be great.
And if Canonical/buntu dont support it it would be nice if we could offer that.
But anyway guys this is just some toughts so dont hurt me :)


On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 18:38:35 +0800
PCMan <pcman.tw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Is there any chance that we keep supporting these old machines?
> I don't see any reason to force the use of i686.
> Only the compiler flags need to be changed.
> All programs should be able to be compiled with i586.
> If supporting i586 is not allowed by Canonical, then I personally
> think we need a fork.
> A distro aimed to provide best desktop experience for old and limited
> machines doesn't run on old machines at all. This is really ironic,
> isn't it?
> 
> On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Yorvyk <yorvik.ubunto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 00:10:45 +0100
> > Phill Whiteside <phillw@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> Julien,
> >>
> >>  as we are the last post of support for "older" computers, to **** with
> >> Canonical and them dropping the support from the kernel for i586 and below
> >> that I thought that was the 'raison d'etre' for Lubuntu. We cannot turn our
> >> backs on these people.  Just my 2 cents worth.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >> Phill.
> >>
> >> On 21 October 2010 00:02, Yorvyk <yorvik.ubunto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> > On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 22:07:04 -0000
> >> > Christian Stöveken <launchpad.net@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > > Hey,
> >> > >
> >> > > I just tried installing Lubuntu 10.10 on a K6 450 notebook and ran into
> >> > > the cmov missing problem.
> >> > > Since this distribution is designed to run on low end machines cmov
> >> > > support should be compiled into the kernel
> >> > > (imho).
> >> > >
> >> > > I just wanted to check if you're already aware of the missing cmov
> >> > > support in recent kernels.
> >> > >
> >> > Sadly, yes.  See  this thread
> >> > https://lists.launchpad.net/lubuntu-desktop/msg02587.html
> >> >
> >>
> > We’ll probably have to support 10.04 for a bit longer for these machines.
> >
> > --
> > Steve Cook (Yorvyk)
> >
> > http://lubuntu.net
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