Fedora 12 x86 DVD images

Michael Cronenworth mike at cchtml.com
Tue Nov 24 19:26:23 UTC 2009


Rahul Sundaram on 11/24/2009 01:11 PM wrote:
> On 11/25/2009 12:24 AM, Jesse Keating wrote:
>> On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 12:24 -0600, Sir Gallantmon wrote:
>>> Why not label it "x86_32" instead of i386? That is far less confusing and
>>> illustrates that it is 32-bit on the x86 architecture, since x86_64 says it
>>> is 64-bit on x86 architecture.
>>
>> Because that's not what uname says.  Change that, and then we'll talk.
>
> What uname says doesn't have to match the ISO arch name at all. The
> suggestion above is very valid and you should consider implementing it
> to avoid confusion. Our users would be thankful and so would I, not
> having to answer questions about this anymore.


Should there be a RFE bug or rel-eng ticket created so this e-mail 
thread is not for nothing? It's been discussed since the beginning of 
time AFAIK.




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