| ErichEickmeyer | Wow, that was a long 24 hours. sakrecoer, I'll look into that bridge; it seems the Lubuntu and Kubuntu communities are especially on it. | 17:15 |
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| ErichEickmeyer | Everyone: Perhaps this is just bandwagoning, but it seems as though several of the flavors are dropping 32-bit support. I can see the big advantage of not having to worry about packaging for 32-bit anymore, which would ease workload. Any thoughts? | 17:18 |
| OvenWerks | I am not sure we will have a choice | 17:20 |
| OvenWerks | we depend on the lowlatency kernel and the kernel people are wanting to drop 32bit as well. I am not sure if lubuntu are building their own or not | 17:20 |
| OvenWerks | I suspect ubuntu wants to get rid of all or at least much of the 32bit repo as well with respect to importing new versions etc. | 17:22 |
| OvenWerks | The idea was that 18.04 being an LTS would keep 32 bit stuff around for the length of the lts. | 17:23 |
| OvenWerks | I do happen to have a number of 32 bit machines in the house from 1998 till about 2004 ish. The 1998 laptop is very slow and not really in use :) but my server is a P4 (running 14.04 I think) | 17:25 |
| OvenWerks | I also have a netbook from around 2010ish that is 32bit that runs fine (better than a P4). It seems that oolder computers were built better and are still running (PATA drives and all). | 17:27 |
| OvenWerks | However, there will still be other OSes around for the netbook if I want to upgrade and I do have a 64bit ready the server. | 17:28 |
| OvenWerks | the 32bit deadline is 2038ish ;) then the clocks roll over to 1970... | 17:33 |
| OvenWerks | ErichEickmeyer: to keep 32bit may mean supporting the packages on our own. | 17:40 |
| * OvenWerks is switching his desktop to 18.04... gotta look for all the dev packages :P | 17:44 | |
| krytarik | Fwiw, nobody is talking about dropping 32-bit packages off the repo so far - just stopping to build 32-bit installation images. | 17:59 |
| OvenWerks | I guess the question becomes: can someone do useful artistic creation with a 32bit system? | 18:00 |
| OvenWerks | I know there are already some of our packages that are 64bit only | 18:01 |
| krytarik | Well, I would so we should drop once the majority of Ubuntu flavors did - and likely before the more lightweight ones too. | 18:02 |
| OvenWerks | On the other hand, there are (were?) a few packages that require 32bit operation | 18:02 |
| krytarik | Yes, and multiarch support is still there, of course - and I'd think the maintainer of said packages wouldn't give up 32-bit support on those.. :P | 18:04 |
| OvenWerks | hmm, ubuntustudio-controls ends up in the system submenu. Should it? | 21:40 |
| OvenWerks | I am thinking that maybe we should have that be in settings | 21:40 |
| OvenWerks | Next question: do all DEs have a settings sub menu? That is, how do they deal with settings utilities that are not a part of their own settings widget? | 21:42 |
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