Make x86_64 more visible or even the default choice

[Kamisamanou Burgess]

Do you mean FESCo?

Sayonara,
Kamisamanou Burgess
http://www.kamisamanou.net


On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 04:56, drago01 <drago01 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 7:51 PM, drago01 <drago01 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Currently the website focuses on the x86 version of fedora and the
> > x86_64 version is hidden so unless the user knows that he is searching
> > for it, he will just download the x86 version.
> > We should promote the x86_64 as the default choice with a visible link
> > "For older PCs and Netbooks click *here*" (More information)".
> >
> > In F11 effort was made to change the default x86 arch from i386 to
> > i586 to gain extra performance, but benchmarks that I have done back
> > than have clearly showed that you gain much more from moving moving to
> > x86_64.
> > Not only that you have access to more registers MMX, SSE and SSE2 can
> > be used unconditionally.
> >
> > Besides this x86_64 allows the use of more memory and memory prices
> > are dropping significantly lately.  (Desktops running 12GB of RAM is
> > nothing impossible or overly expensive now).
> >
> > Please don't let this end up in ix86 vs x86_64 flamewar.
> > Yes they are cases where x86 is the better choice (when memory and
> > diskspace are limited, but that exactly is covered by "older hardware
> > and netbooks")
> >
> > So please consider changing the default to x86_64.
> >
> >
> > P.S:
> > CC me when replying.
> >
>
> Any comment from the website team?
>
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