Top Ten Tasks For www.fedoraproject.org

Michael Beckwith michael.d.beckwith at gmail.com
Sat May 10 05:17:11 UTC 2008


Personally, I think it'd almost be perfectly safe to offer just 32bit by 
default. It'll be almost guaranteed to run. Someone wanting 64bit will 
know enough to click a little bit more and find the 64bit version. Only 
exception to these thoughts would be the PowerPC ones which I'm not the 
most familiar with.

Juan Camilo Prada wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 15:04 -0500, Ian Weller wrote:
>   
>> On Fri, 9 May 2008, Patrik Cevela wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> I think the platform identification by "i386", "x86_64" and "ppc" is incomprehensible for newbees.
>>> It would be better call it "Desktop, 32bit version", "Desktop, 64bit" and "PowerPC".
>>>
>>>       
>> Why not have both? -- ian
>>
>>     
>
> Because we want to avoid ambiguity.
>
> the idea is to provide an easy link for the most common installation
> media 
>
>   


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