On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 9:45 PM, Alexander Ploumistos
<alex.ploumistos(a)gmail.com> wrote:
This is the reply from LXQt/LXDE:
> i686 (Ubuntu and Debian calls it i386) will be supported for some time
> now (at least for LXQt) if I can help it. Lubuntu uses it and probably
> won't drop it until at minimum the 20.04 or 22.04 cycle (probably longer
> than that, we could carry it out to 24.04 or 26.04, we'll see how that
> all plays out when we get there), unless we are forced by the Ubuntu
> Release Team to drop it (unlikely but possible). So acting in upstream
> will be something I would like to do to make sure it stays working on
> Lubuntu i386, but I don't see any reason why it shouldn't work in the
> future. If you have any questions for Lubuntu directly, please feel free
> to send an email to lubuntu-devel(a)lists.ubuntu.com and we can talk there.
>
> In respect to LXDE, since it uses GTK 2 I *personally* (not speaking for
> upstream) don't know how long it'll last upstream unless we get a GTK 3
> or 4 port. But that's irrelevant to i386 support.
Great! Looks like we have several desktops with upstreams still
interested in supporting 32bit.
jeff
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