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[Yorvyk <yorvik.ubunto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 21 Dec 2011 19:14:08 -0300
Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset <jpxsat@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> First, don't kill me for bringing back this topic ;)
> 
> Since Lubuntu is official, maybe the cause for dropping i586 is obsolete
> (if I remember right it was because none of the flavours could run in it,
> so there was no "market" there).
> Aditionally, there's the fact that LTS are the less demanding resource
> releases :) (experieced by me with 8.04 and 10.04)
> Maybe we could ask nicely, together with Xubuntu, that at least for the LTS
> *ubuntu could exist for i586...
> I doesn't sound completely crazy to me.
> 
Is there any call for i586 kernel?  Has anybody complained of it's absence?  I would imagine there would have to be some numbers produced to justify it's inclusion.

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Yorvyk