Question of the day: Do you have any pre-i686 hardware? If so, tell us about it! Also, what do you think about TWIL Talks? It’s just something I’m trying out. If you don’t care for it, it’s not a permanent fixture. 
Thanks for watching! Buy My T-Shirts! twil.spreadshirt.com & http My Website: www.thisweekinlinux.com My Facebook Page apps.facebook.com My Twitter: www.twitter.com My IRC Channel: #twil on irc.freenode.net Background music by Kevin MacLeod of incompetech.com
@TheCacashinha Thanks a lot! I’ve been meaning to buy more of them myself, because they’re comfortable and I love the logos.
Nice t-shirts dude
@ricflair9009 agreed, or just use another of the 600 distros out there that will still support i586.
I don’t see any problems bye removing the support for pre-i686 CPUs. If you’re affected, then go buy an Intel Atom platform for around 70€ and you’re just fine. The Atom will surely even outperform your older CPU.
@BeerIndependence4All Ooh, good luck. I hope it works out for you.
@thisweekinlinux Hi again… Yes, I’d tried several things suggested there, but nothing worked… HOWEVER… I went back and found some new instructions and tried the “Safe” fix, as opposed to the “Bleeding-Edge” fix on the page and so far it hasn’t rebooted on it’s own. *fingers crossed* Thanks for steering me back there for the new info. I sure hope this works.
@BeerIndependence4All Have you looked at the wiki page for that series of graphics chips?
wiki(dot)ubuntu(dot)com/X/Bugs/Lucidi8xxFreezes
@thisweekinlinux Hi… I have an Intel 82852 graphics chip set onboard. My only options seem to be go back to Debian (I really didn’t like “Ice Weasel” lol) or get a graphics card. Money is tight for us now… and I honestly wouldn’t know what graphics card to get anyway. It would be nice to be able to run Compiz. Oh, and no, I’m not affected by the i686 issue.
@BeerIndependence4All that’s really odd. what Intel video chip do you have?
I’m still dealing with issues regarding my video card, or lack there of, since Ubuntu no longer supports my Intel video chip set. Not being a “gamer” I don’t have a video card other than an old Voodoo 3, and I’m not sure that will work either. Granted, things have come a long way and it becomes a burden to support a lot of old architecture. I understand that… but this computer is only six years old and Windows works just fine on it…. but not Ubuntu. That could become a problem for Ubunt.
@meklu I actually filmed this 3 separate times, and this time just happened to be the best take of the three, and I didn’t notice until i was editing that I said uname -a instead of uname -m. I said uname -m in the other two takes.
Thanks for mentioning it though.
Why didn’t you instruct people to use “uname -m” instead? Would’ve been easier for one to find the architecture with it.
@Gt5OOkr having tried Arch myself, I’d say finish it just to see if you like it when it’s done. It can be difficult to get it running, but if you stick to the Beginner’s guide and/or the Install guide, it’s not that difficult, and for a lot of people it’s well worth the effort.
man, idk if i should finish my arch box or change it into a ubuntu box
@korwinblue thanks for the suggestion. I had been reading up on the Nook stuff this week.
No, i686 will still be around. i586, not so much (just for Ubuntu).
For your next “TWIL” don’t forget to mention the Nook price drop, the new WiFi only version, and firmware 1.4! The Nook is running Android, so its part of the Linux family!
Yay! No more i686. One less thing I have to worry about when I try to decipher which version I need to download.
I agree its time to move forward.. If some one is using that older stuff odd’s are they don’t have it on the net and even if they do.. 3 years should be good.
@TheWrinkledCheese you should be able to.
Can you still recompile the kernel and add the unsupported CPUs?
this is a good idea – ubuntu is way too heavy for pre-i686 anyway and its just a pain for devs. ubuntu is even too heavy for some low-end i686 computers, which is one of the reasons i stopped using it (and gnome) and moved to debian
@TheArnabDas thanks.
good move. showing a lot of maturity in their decisions now, canonical. hope the time gained will be utilised in doing something substantial. interesting segment. keep it up man!
Some celerons work with i686 but act strangely. Or maybe it wasn’t that but one celeron pc I installed an i686 distro, the network connection acted sluggish, not with i386
@luXade In a Pentium-4 2,2 GHz / 2 Gb I have the Xubuntu and I’m totally satisfied
@thisweekinlinux That’s exactly right. There’s nothing wrong with running an “old” distribution. However, if you’re running it as a server, you’re probably better off running int on a real server distro, as CentOS or Debian, …
It’s just a little bit more work keeping it as secure as the newer releases.