>On 6/23/19 12:51 PM, Mohamed Ikbel Boulabiar wrote:
>> My apologies for my long mail, and the kind-of rant.
Hi,
while I agree on many of your statements, those are not really related
to the 32-bit issue. Ubuntu still will support 32-bit for some while,
Arch Linux for example has already dropped
According to Steve on Ubuntu Discourse [1]:
> I’m sorry that we’ve given anyone the impression that we are “dropping
support for i386 applications”. That’s simply not the case. What we are
dropping is updates to the i386 libraries, which will be frozen at the
18.04 LTS versions. But there is
Hi,
As a ubuntu user and supporter, and as I have pushed for this blueprint
from 2010
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/appdevs-dx-n-multitouch-and-games
I want to comment this decision that it seems has many many consequences.
Specially for Wine and Steam.
Hi,
I'm just wondering that, instead of totally dropping i386, why not just
drop the ones that are unnecessary from the repos, like VLC, Vim, Nano,
Plasma, etc. Since Ubuntu doesn't even have an i386 based distros
officially, those aren't needed to be there anymore. That way, you only
had
Hello Steve,
>Last year, the Ubuntu developer community considered the question of
whether
>to continue carrying forward the i386 architecture in the Ubuntu
archive for
>future releases.[1] The discussion at the time was inconclusive, but in
>light of the strong possibility that we might not
Hello Steve,
>Last year, the Ubuntu developer community considered the question of
whether
>to continue carrying forward the i386 architecture in the Ubuntu
archive for
>future releases.[1] The discussion at the time was inconclusive, but in
>light of the strong possibility that we might not
