Mini -- 32-bit, LXDE going forward

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anchorH
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Joined: 12/08/2020

Hi all,
My current daily driver is Lubuntu 18.04, whch I use on both 32-bit and 64-bit computers. I've been trying Trisquel Mini (and loving it) as a replacement for Lubuntu, which is dropping support for both LXDE and 32-bit.

My questions:
1. Will Trisquel continue to support 32-bit systems even as Canonical drops support?
2. Will Trisquel continue to provide 32-bit-specific security fixes?
3. Will Trisquel -- and the Ubuntu repositories where Trisquel gets its packages -- continue to make LXDE available?
4. Will there be any LXDE security fixes down the line? Or is LXDE currently considered safe even though abandoned.
5. How big is the Trisquel development team? I read a post from several years back where just one person was doing the development. Have more people been added since then? I don't require a lot of features in a distro, so this question is mainly about having a safe system.

Thank-you

And again, really love the appearance, speed and low RAM usage of Trisquel Mini. Surprised I hadn't found it earlier

lutes
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Joined: 09/04/2020

Last time we heard about 32-bit support in this forum was in this call for volunteers:

https://trisquel.info/en/forum/call-volunteers-maintain-32-bit-support

The current thread was opened a couple of days before the one referenced above, so not sure how much of the OP has already been answered there.

Maybe someone has some update on the 32-bit call for volunteers, especially regarding chaosmonk's offer there: https://trisquel.info/en/forum/call-volunteers-maintain-32-bit-support#comment-154445.

jxself
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Joined: 09/13/2010

As far as I know it's still the same: A community effort. So it's entirely possible, if people are willing to do it, but it will require action as it won't just happen by itself.

lutes
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Joined: 09/04/2020

Thanks.

I was thinking that maybe the idea of basing on Devuan (or Debian) instead of building all packages from scratch is more tempting, from the point of view of potential volunteers. Although it does not seem to be on the table for the foreseeable future.