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[Julien Lavergne <gilir@xxxxxxxxxx>]

If it's limited to the LXDE packages + Lubuntu specific packages, backporting them to 10.04 shouldn't be a big work, since I already planned to backport up-to-date LXDE packages.

Regards,
Julien Lavergne 

On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 00:18:55 +0100
Phill Whiteside <phillw@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hiyas Julien,
> 
> Having had a chat, (oh and the forum went wild over the dropping of i586
> support),.
> 
> what I propose is that we support 10.04 as a LTS and not just a beta. The
> kernel will be supported for 5 years, it's down to the devs to decide if
> they will compile stuff for the LTS kernel. Obviously, you all know that ask
> that you do so; I do know it is a really small team but I think pcman will
> do his side, as for the lx team that would have to be asked.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Phill.
> 
> On 21 October 2010 23:53, Julien Lavergne <gilir@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > I wasn't aware that there are still computers using i586. Do we know what
> > CPU models are affected ? We can sill ask to re-enable the support for Natty
> > (very few chances to be accepted), but we need to know what hardwares are
> > affected.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Julien Lavergne
> >
> > 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
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Steve Cook (Yorvyk)
> > > >
> > > > http://lubuntu.net
> > > >
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