I dont know anything about packaging and all but, if there was possible to make Lubuntu compatible for i586 that would be great. And if Canonical/buntu dont support it it would be nice if we could offer that. But anyway guys this is just some toughts so dont hurt me :)
On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 18:38:35 +0800 PCMan <pcman...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is there any chance that we keep supporting these old machines? > I don't see any reason to force the use of i686. > Only the compiler flags need to be changed. > All programs should be able to be compiled with i586. > If supporting i586 is not allowed by Canonical, then I personally > think we need a fork. > A distro aimed to provide best desktop experience for old and limited > machines doesn't run on old machines at all. This is really ironic, > isn't it? > > On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Yorvyk <yorvik.ubu...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 00:10:45 +0100 > > Phill Whiteside <phi...@phillw.net> wrote: > > > >> Julien, > >> > >> as we are the last post of support for "older" computers, to **** with > >> Canonical and them dropping the support from the kernel for i586 and below > >> that I thought that was the 'raison d'etre' for Lubuntu. We cannot turn our > >> backs on these people. Just my 2 cents worth. > >> > >> Regards, > >> > >> Phill. > >> > >> On 21 October 2010 00:02, Yorvyk <yorvik.ubu...@googlemail.com> wrote: > >> > >> > On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 22:07:04 -0000 > >> > Christian Stöveken <launchpad....@excogitation.de> wrote: > >> > > >> > > Hey, > >> > > > >> > > I just tried installing Lubuntu 10.10 on a K6 450 notebook and ran into > >> > > the cmov missing problem. > >> > > Since this distribution is designed to run on low end machines cmov > >> > > support should be compiled into the kernel > >> > > (imho). > >> > > > >> > > I just wanted to check if you're already aware of the missing cmov > >> > > support in recent kernels. > >> > > > >> > Sadly, yes. See this thread > >> > https://lists.launchpad.net/lubuntu-desktop/msg02587.html > >> > > >> > > We’ll probably have to support 10.04 for a bit longer for these machines. > > > > -- > > Steve Cook (Yorvyk) > > > > http://lubuntu.net > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop > > Post to : lubuntu-desktop@lists.launchpad.net > > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop > > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop > Post to : lubuntu-desktop@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp -- Contact fred...@fredrikandersson.net fredrikfri...@gmail.com Messenger fritte...@msn.com _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop Post to : lubuntu-desktop@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp