2010/8/27 Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier <xonker@xxxxxxxxx>: > 2010/8/27 Bruno Wolff III <bruno@xxxxxxxx>: >> Personally is think this is mostly useful for rescue USB devices, since to fix >> some things you want to boot with the same arch as the OS you are fixing. >> But other people may have other reasons for doing this. > > The reason we did that is because there's no way to predict the demand > for x86 vs. x86-64 media. Guessing and pressing X number of one and Y > of the other usually meant that we had spare media or unhappy users at > events. People who want 64-bit are going to want a 64-bit disc, and > folks who have a 32-bit machine can't use the 64-bit ones at all if we > run out of 32-bit. > > So we opted for double-sided. They're slightly more expensive, but not > terribly so. 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. John _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
