Re: Pressed media idea

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On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Chris Tyler <chris@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Fri, 2010-08-27 at 10:00 -0400, Máirín Duffy wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-08-27 at 08:57 -0500, inode0 wrote:
> > Experience helps predict demand, of course it changes over time so
> > there is some guesswork involved but there is guesswork in predicting
> > the overall demand also.
> >
> > FAmNA at least has considered this in the past and I don't recall why
> > it was rejected but I imagine it was because it was more expensive and
> > media already eats a very large hunk of the budget.
> >
> > The ambassadors who both produce and distribute the media are in a
> > really good position to make informed choices in this area and in the
> > case of FAmNA I'll make sure this is reconsidered the next time media
> > production rolls around.
>
> Thanks John. It struck me as being a good idea as after LinuxCon I have
> *no* 64-bit media, and I have a stack of 40 32-bit live & dvd install
> discs. Almost nobody wanted 32-bit.
>
> ~m

I found the same thing with this last release, a sharp change from the
previous 64bit:32bit ratio. (Might not be that long before we can drop
32 bit for pressed media).
+1
most cpu's (3years old and newer) support 64bit anyway
but aren't there some atom cpu's that don't support 64bit? #notsure

-Chris

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