On Jul 12, 2016 08:13, "Bryan Quigley" <<a href="mailto:bryan.quigley@canonical.com">bryan.quigley@canonical.com</a>> wrote: > I was just saying that in some cases the cost of power (which is > hidden on the individual level sometimes) and add up to make some > older machines not worth it. That is an interesting thought, as it sort of suggests that Lubuntu's focus on older machines may not be justifiable, at least financially. > For alternate cds: I'm surprised they're still needed, given that I > can run Lubuntu (i386) livecd well with just 256 MB of ram. Having > said that it doesn't look like the costs of building alternates are > very high. It's ubiquity that's the memory hog. If only if had a non-graphical frontend… > PPC: This was mentioned in passing that this arch might be worth > considering for removal in the future This is being discussed seriously now due to lack of support among kernel developers and lack of testers. Even if this was a done deal, since our last release was Xenial, the Canonical machinery will need to continue to publish PPC images until its point releases are finished.