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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 19/05/16 20:04, Joel Carlson wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr"><font size="4">ARM processor computers are the
future and Martin Wimpress has an excellent version of Mate
for the Raspberry Pi, details at <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://ubuntu-mate.org/raspberry-pi/">https://ubuntu-mate.org/raspberry-pi/</a>
. We add the XFCE desktop to Mate on the Pi which works very
well but would rather have Xubuntu. We are waiting for the
Pine64 to arrive and will do the same there. Why not start
Xubuntu development for ARM processor computers? Linus
Torvalds says 2016 will be the year of the ARM laptop, see <a
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href="http://news.softpedia.com/news/linus-torvalds-say-2016-will-be-the-year-of-the-arm-laptop-494044.shtml"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://news.softpedia.com/news/linus-torvalds-say-2016-will-be-the-year-of-the-arm-laptop-494044.shtml">http://news.softpedia.com/news/linus-torvalds-say-2016-will-be-the-year-of-the-arm-laptop-494044.shtml</a></a>
. Thanks</font><br>
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Hello Joel,<br>
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this has been discussed by the Xubuntu team, and at least at this
point there is not enough manpower to support even more platforms
for Xubuntu. Unless enough interest and contributors with ARM
platform show up, the situation is unlikely to change.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
Pasi<br>
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Pasi Lallinaho (knome) » <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://open.knome.fi/">http://open.knome.fi/</a>
Leader of the Shimmer Project » <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://shimmerproject.org/">http://shimmerproject.org/</a>
Ubuntu member, Xubuntu Website lead » <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://xubuntu.org/">http://xubuntu.org/</a></pre>
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