Promoting i386 version over x86_64?

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Thu Nov 19 17:45:37 UTC 2009


On 11/19/2009 05:56 PM, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 15:24 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> On 11/19/2009 03:06 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
>>> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>>>> Regardless of your take on that, it is now a very very popular segment
>>>> and many users are going to run Fedora on those systems (ie) 32-bit is
>>>> getting a whole new life all over again. We cannot call them legacy or
>>>> side line them.
>>>
>>> The netbook problem can be addressed by a "download netbook edition" link
>>> which can then be not only 32-bit, but also using a desktop optimized for
>>> netbook display and RAM sizes rather than the default GNOME.
>>
>> Someone will have to volunteer to do that and IMO, the default ISO image
>> should just work for netbooks anyway.
>>
>> Rahul
>>
>
> See the Moblin respin.  Too late to be a spin for F12, could be one of
> the official spins for F13.
You must not confuse moblin with netbooks, nettops or with i386/32bit 
machines in general. The moblin desktop is addressing a completely 
different audience.

Ralf




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