[sf-lug] Fwd: "Future Lubuntu Releases Won't Focus on Old PCs"

[Bobbie Sellers]

Hi LUGers,
	Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS with all the other spins was
out today.  Lubuntu lists a 32 bit version for this release
as does, Ubuntu Mate and Kubuntu.

	Bobbie Sellers
	


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Subject: "Future Lubuntu Releases Won't Focus on Old PCs"
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2018 21:02:24 +0200
From: Yrrah <Yrrah-aolu at aolu.invalid>
Organization: y
Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.ubuntu

"Lubuntu developer Simon Quigley exclusively informs Softpedia today
that future releases of the Lubuntu Linux operating system will shift
focus from being a Linux OS for older PCs to a modern, functional and
modular GNU/Linux distribution.(...)
Since 32-bit computers are going away and are very hard to find these
days, the development team decided that it's time to shift the main
target of Lubuntu from old PCs to modern, yet functional and modular
GNU/Linux distribution (...)
Future Lubuntu releases will ship with the LXQt desktop environment by
default instead of LXDE, which is old and based on open-source
technologies that will soon go away. LXQt is the modern version of
LXDE based on Qt technologies (...)
Lubuntu will remain the operating system to bring back to life old
computers, but computers from 10 years ago which use a dual-core
64-bit processor with at least 2GB of RAM, not 32-bit machines from 20
years ago that no longer exist."
Article:
<https://news.softpedia.com/news/future-lubuntu-releases-won-t-focus-on-old-pcs-will-offer-a-modular-linux-os-522141.shtml

Isn't that a bit too soon? The current LXQt version is 0.13.
Anyone using it?

Yrrah