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[Yorvyk <yorvik.ubunto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 05 May 2011 17:26:32 -0700
Jonathan Marsden <jmarsden@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 05/05/2011 04:11 PM, Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset wrote:
> 
> > This could also mean that the support for i586 could exist again?
> > This should maybe notted somewhere for the goals for when Lubuntu
> > become an official derivative :)
> 
> That would be a hard thing to achieve at this point, I think.  Ubuntu as
> a whole has made a definite decision not to support that class of CPU,
> and the Ubuntu build infrastructure has now been set up not to do that
> any more.  Changing it back to support i586 would be a fairly big deal,
> I suspect.
> 
> If this is something you are seriously interested in, perhaps you can
> collect names of a few thousand people who would use (L)Ubuntu if only
> it ran on their i586-class CPUs?  With that sort of clear evidence of
> need, it might be easier to persuade the Ubuntu community as a whole to
> reconsider supporting it.
> 
i386 is supported in 10.04, so there is a couple more years to come up with a solution if needed.

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