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[Martin Olesen <skovprodukter@xxxxxxxxx>]

2011/12/21 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 Since Lubuntu is official, maybe the cause for dropping i586 is obsolete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.
>
> --
> Yorvyk
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If I understand this correctly we are dealing with processors 12
(twelve) years old or more having a clock frequency of less than 300
MHz. Such a computer is hardly usable for any practical purpose.

I'd say we (that is, the Buntu community in general) should forget
about them and focus on getting better support for new hardware.