Promoting i386 version over x86_64?

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Fri Nov 20 05:31:09 UTC 2009


On 11/20/2009 08:22 AM, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On 11/19/2009 07:14 PM, Jesse Keating wrote:
>> On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 18:45 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>>> You must not confuse moblin with netbooks, nettops or with i386/32bit
>>> machines in general. The moblin desktop is addressing a completely
>>> different audience.
>>>
>>
>> Oh?  That's not what I got from
>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/FedoraMoblin
> It's what I get from this web-page and what I got from testing the
> original Moblin desktop.
> 
> IMO, they are targetting MID devices, competing with Android, Smart
> phones and similar.
> 
> That's a completely different audience as I am talking about: People
> using netbooks, nettops and old i386s as inexpensive, "secondary"
> machine for everyday, "low end" desktop usage, such as "browsing the
> web", "word processing", "presentations", "photo browsing" etc.

User experience part of the page says

"Users of the Fedora Moblin Spin would have a much better user
experience on their NetBook, NetTop and other small devices"

Rahul




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