Sorry for the late notice - there is a live discussion scheduled for this Wednesday on this topic for any flavors that want to further the discussion.
http://summit.ubuntu.com/uos-16 11/meeting/22714/architecture-discussions/ On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 11:57 AM, Bryan Quigley <bryan.quig...@canonical.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > From the thread on Ubuntu-devel/discuss [1] I'm going to start > conversations with each flavor on what their plans are for i386 in the > 18.04 timeframe. Also see the survey [2] results to get a rough idea > of the impact. > > The general ideas are: > A. Drop ubuntu-desktop i386 ISO for 16.10 and drop some packages from > the i386 archive - likely Unity7/8*. > B. Just drop ubuntu-desktop i386 ISO for 16.10. > C. Keep everything as is for 18.04, and then consider dropping i386 > in 18.10 timeframe. > > Thoughts? > Bryan > > * You could consider any packages that are 100% specific to the Unity flavor. > > [1] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2016-June/039420.html > > [2] These results are Unity specific (about 80 of the 300 responses). > How long do you expect this machine to last? > at least 1 year - 16 > at least 3 years - 31 > at least 5 years - 20 > over 7 years -12 > > What would be the effect if support ended... (1 is no impact, 5 is > significant impact) > April 2019 > 1 - 21 > 2 - 9 > 3 - 12 > 4 - 12 > 5 - 19 > > April 2021 (16.04 LTS would cover these) > 1 - 31 > 2 - 12 > 3 - 15 > 4 - 7 > 5 - 7 > > April 2023 > 1 - 47 > 2 - 5 > 3 - 12 > 4 - 3 > 5 - 4 -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop