Fwd: Re: Proposal to drop 32-bit Ubuntu GNOME support after 18.04 LTS

[Pander]

On 2017-04-04 12:03, Alfredo Hernández wrote:
> As Pander has stated, a notice in future releases (17.10 and 18.04 LTS)
> of the 32-bit version would be ideal.

Perhaps with a double confirmation: are you really really sure? Note
that XFCE, LXDE, or MATE is probably more suited for you and longer
maintained.

> 
> As ideal as it would be to support a 32-bit ISO, our resources are
> limited and realistically, 32-bit-only hardware will run much smoother
> on XFCE, LXDE, or MATE.
> 
> Cheers,
> Alfredo
> 
> On 2 April 2017 at 11:54, Pander <pander at users.sourceforge.net
> <mailto:pander at users.sourceforge.net>> wrote:
> 
>     On 2017-04-02 09:53, Tim wrote:
>     > It is somewhat impossible to get solid stats due to the distributed
>     > nature of OSS.  There is no way to track downloads from all the mirrors,
>     > or how many users we have.
>     >
>     >
>     > We still have users using 32-bit on amd64 capable hardware, but if you
>     > exclude them the number on 32-bit only hardware by 2021 should be minimal.
>     >
>     >
>     > There are plenty of distro's/spins who focus is on supporting legacy
>     > hardware.
> 
>     Perhaps add an option in the installer of 32-bit distros to notify
>     Ubuntu of this installation after the user has explicitly chosen to do
>     so. Users of versions nearing end-of-life are more prone to notify
>     active usage for extended support.
> 
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