Ubuntu Maverick Meerkat incompatible with older buses
Ubuntu Meerkat
The new version of Ubuntu to come, namely the 10.10 Maverick Meerkat will not run on processors that do not reach a minimum of architecture i686. In this way, opened the debate both in the community of developers and the community of users about whether this determination sharp risked not be equivalent to an act of discrimination.
Is that many may wonder why Ubuntu has established this arbitrary cut. Is that we all know that this is so, the family-i586 to give just one case, has a great importance in home computing. In establishing this selection Ubuntu people would be leaving out of potential users to a large number of people whose processors would not meet the minimum requirements for compatibility.
But this would be interpreted accurately. Not as much as the particular act of discrimination, and thus with the moral condemnation could conceivably alsarce against Ubuntu, but rather as one more case in an objective tendency of which is complex escape. Read more
Tira Ecol
Translator
