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[Phill Whiteside <phillw@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Steve,

is this not the same effect as the dropping of i586 from the kernel as of
11.04? As Lubuntu is commited to support 10.10 stable beta as if it were an
LTS because older chip-sets are being dropped would this actually become an
issue for us - I see it as a big plus!

Regards,

Phill.

On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 7:35 PM, Yorvyk <yorvik.ubunto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> On Sat, 27 Aug 2011 10:15:03 -0700 (PDT)
> Lance <lbsolost@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > That's definitely bad news for me :^(
> >
> > I currently still maintain 24 machines with P4M800 integrated chips and,
> if I'm reading that right, I'm about to need some major hardware upgrades.
> >
> > I also maintain a few machines with older Intel 8xx chips. Most of the
> machines with VIA chips are ones I upgraded myself for seniors to bring them
> out of the Win 98 and ME stone-age.
> >
> > I may be tarred and feathered if I can't keep these machines working ;^)
> >
> It could get troublesome. The VESA driver should still work as an
> alternative, but it can be rather slow :(
>
> --
> Yorvyk
>
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