I would say drop it also. If people have a 32-bit machine, MATE, XFCE and LXDE would be much more appropriate choices. I would say GNOME needs 4GB RAM to be really effective.
They could also use Debian, who will I'm sure will support 32-bit for a long while yet. My two cents Leo Jeremy Bicha: > On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 8:08 PM, John Gilmore <g...@toad.com> wrote: >> The idea of dropping i386 support seems like a step backwards to me. > > Thank you for your feedback. I will keep my reply very brief. > > I run a cheap ~$5 virtual private server for my website. It has 512 MB > RAM and it runs 64-bit Ubuntu. My understanding is that 64-bit Ubuntu > is actually far more popular than 32-bit Ubuntu for these low-memory > servers. > > Ubuntu GNOME has never supported or targeted low-RAM 10-year old > computers. Check out our 14.04 LTS Release Notes which recommended a > minimum of 1.5GB RAM (which is enough to run Ubuntu GNOME 64-bit but I > wouldn't open a lot of tabs in my web browser there). > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TrustyTahr/ReleaseNotes/UbuntuGNOME > > Thanks, > Jeremy >
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