Installation Media and supportability of i386 in 18.04 LTS Re: Ubuntu Desktop on i386

[Martin Wimpress]

Hi,

Excuse the top posting, only have a phone available.

Ubuntu MATE works with a few organisations around the world, one in my own
country, that refurbish donated computers, install them with Ubuntu MATE
and give (or sell them for next to nothing) to schools, disadvantaged
families and people who otherwise wouldn't be able to afford a computer.

I'll get in touch with them and find how, or if, this decision would affect
them.

I saw a mention of armhf in this discussion. Does this proposal put the
armhf archive in jeopardy?

Regards, Martin.
On 29 Jun 2016 8:02 a.m., "Jeremy Bicha" <jbicha at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 4:08 PM, Seth Arnold <seth.arnold at canonical.com>
> wrote:
> > I propose that 16.04 LTS should be the last release with i386 support.
> > That way we don't leave anyone with a choice of (a) keep running
> > known-insecure 17.10 in 2018 or (b) figure out how to do a downgrade
> > back to 16.04 LTS.
>
> +1 Dropping the i386 install disk is much better immediately after an
> LTS instead of immediately before.
>
> > I'm not sure how we acheive this specific goal but I think we shouldn't
> > encourage i386 (or armhf?) users off of 16.04 LTS.
>
> We can tell update-manager and do-release-upgrade to not allow
> upgrading i386 with an explanation of why. That should send a big
> signal that it is no longer officially supported.
>
> Jeremy
>
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