Concerned about future 32 bit server support

[Karl Auer]

On Wed, 2017-08-09 at 10:55 +0200, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> the discussion on the ubuntu-devel list (not sure what spilled over
> into the kubuntu list from that) was mainly about install media since
> there you have a high testing workload.

There was a not-so-recent decision to drop support for non-PAE devices,
which was a blow to people with old systems, too. I have a half-dozen
old machines that still work fine, but they have no PAE, so later
Ubntu's won't run on them. Losing 32-bit versions is just more of the
same.

I think it's a shame that Ubuntu will not support 32 bit systems, but
that's the way it goes...

> i could imagine if a team steps up to take full responsibility of
> maintaining a 32bit server install as a community flavour (like
> {lu,ku,xu}buntu), it wouldnt be refused ...

They could call it 32buntu :-)

Regards, K.

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