[lubuntu-devel] Architecture EOL plans for Lubuntu

[Walter Lapchynski]

On Jul 11, 2016 14:11, "Bryan Quigley" <bryan.quigley at canonical.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 3:24 PM, Jan Holtman <oulik.jan at gmail.com> wrote:

> > There are a lot of older very good quality 32 bit machines around,
> > especially in 3rd world countries.
> Certainly true, but for many of them the power efficiency is making
> them less and less a good economic decision.

Unless you consider the fact that these machines are readily available for
little to no cost. This is true not only in the third world but here in the
US where public school systems struggle to keep pace with the ever
increasing system requirements of nearly every operating system out there.
All the more reason for i386, at least among the Lubuntu camp.

> The powerpc and alternate cds seem like safer things to consider dropping.

PPC machines are useless without a Linux that supports them and there are
fewer and fewer. A lightweight distro like Lubuntu makes logical sense in
this case.

As for alternate, it's a nice alternative to netboot which requires a good
Internet connection. In many parts of the world, that's asking too much.
Similarly, ubiquity has greater system requirements than Lubuntu, so it
doesn't make a lot of sense. If there was a non-graphical frontend to
debian-installer, that would be great because then server could adopt it
too.

That being said, I know that we can't do everything. At some point, we have
to continue to refine our focus, lest we do everything but nothing well.
And as we continue to grow support for mobile and IoT, our needs change, so
I can see the need to remove some extraneous pieces. However, for an
increasing segment of this market, x86 is a norm.

That being said, I can envision reasons to get rid of the alternate and the
PPC images, but maybe removing i386 is a bit short-sighted.
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