On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 09:19, Martin Pool <[email protected]> wrote: >> Computers are replaced as frequently as refrigerators by people who don't >> care how quickly it loads a page or makes ice: when it stops turning on. > > Those people are probably not upgrading their refrigerator firmware > all that often either. They may not want a major new OS release. > They might install an update/backport of a particular app. >
I am not aware of replacement refrigerator software. I do know of people who for a variety of reasons continue to use perfectly serviceable hardare from the early 2000S. In fact, one library that I service is still using some ancient machine for their catalog that was running on Windows 98 until a few months ago. It is now an Ubuntu machine running wine. I do not remember which version of Ubuntu, but it runs perfectly fine on that 13-year-old hardware. > There is a group of people who want the latest-and-greatest software > on old or small hardware, but they're necessarily the crowd you're > describing here. > I doubt that these people need latest-and-greatest software, but they do need supported software. That is the argument for keeping the non-PAE kernel in the LTS release. -- Dotan Cohen http://gibberish.co.il http://what-is-what.com -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
