Le 11 septembre 2016 21:43:03 UTC+03:00, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net> a écrit :
>That's entirely true. For users who don't need the user-friendliness >provided by Ubuntu there are anyway better distros available to "tune" >weak computers more easily. Anyway, for doing this much knowledge is >required. The user-friendliness of Ubuntu has got several weak points, I thought Ubuntu was a good Linux distro and I was happy that "everybody" could use it (desktop, education..) But if I understand what is happening, do we have to stop pushing Ubuntu to users owning old hardwares, and go back to Debian as in the good old day? 5 years remaining until 2021, and we always hope to use newly acquired equipment over 5 years. >but its importance shouldn't be underestimated, especially, but not >only, for less educated people. The distro's name "Ubuntu" wasn't >chosen >randomly. This word has got a meaning. This word, the name Ubuntu, was one of the reasons I downloaded Ubuntu (maybe) 10 years ago. Eventually, it replaced my Debian boxes one by one, and even a RedHat one and a Mandriva one ;) The name and the fact that its creator was South African, has created in me a lot of hope. Naively, I must say ;) >During this thread somebody mentioned computers somewhere in the bush. Me. >The users of those computers had no chance to participate on the >survey. > >So IMHO the question is a trade-off. The Ubuntu maintainers could >support both 64 bit and 32 bit support in the past and they are still >doing it. By keeping the boats and computers in the bush in mind, is >continuing to drag around this anchor in the future still worth the >effort? > >I had more tendencies to say "no" before this discussion started. I understand that the Ubuntu developers must choose. What is important now is to know that doing advocacy for Linux in developing countries must integrate this 2021 deadline. >During >this discussion my opinion tends more and more to think that 32 bit >support by Ubuntu still is very important. Taking no account that PAE This is my opinion too. Now, if we can not, well.. we can not! ;) We'll see. >What is the borderline requirement for the Ubuntu user target group, >resp. who is this target group? That is now the question. As I have now to adapt my Linux distros advocacies and recommendations. Regards, Thierry -- Envoyé de mon téléphone Android avec K-9 Mail. Excusez la brièveté. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
