Fedora 12 x86 DVD images
Jesse Keating
jkeating at redhat.com
Tue Nov 24 16:22:41 UTC 2009
On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 10:38 +0100, Andrea Musuruane wrote:
> Hi all,
> some Fedora users just pointed me out that the x86 DVD image names
> are not accurate. The install DVD is called Fedora-12-i386-DVD.iso
> while the live DVD is called Fedora-12-i686-Live.iso. Please note the
> i386 text in the install DVD file name. This is creating some
> confusion among users because they tend to believe that packages are
> still compiled for i386 and not for i686.
>
> Bye.
>
> Andrea.
>
The base arch of the family is i386, just like we call the ppc spin
"ppc" even though it only supports a subset of the ppc family, ditto
sparc, arm, etc...
--
Jesse Keating
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