Hi All :) El Wednesday 01 April 2009, Dieter Plaetinck escribió: > On Wed, 1 Apr 2009 10:28:44 +0200 (CEST) > > "Thomas Bohn" <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, April 1, 2009 10:09, Dieter Plaetinck wrote: > > > This was posted in march. And it's discussed on the developer > > > mailing list and voted for. Personally I also agree they made a > > > good choice. > > > > Okay, what is the alternative? Especially if you don't want end up > > with Debian-based distributions? > > > > Thomas This is my first post to this mailing list :) > How do you mean alternative? there is no need for alternatives because > the decision was only made because we all agreed pretty much everyone > is using 64bit now anyway. > > For atom-based mobile devices you could use android or something. IIRC, Atom has the 220 and 330 models which are x86-64 compatible. So there's not much of an issue with Atom. As Dieter has said, you can think Android or some other distro for x86. For x86 based models, I guess we'll have to switch for the time being to another distro, which IMHO isn't too much of an issue. Sooner or later we'll have to switch over to x86-64 based systems since x86 is used on old hardware: hard to get replacements, doesn't scale, less performance, ... I also think that getting all our efforts onto x86-64 will get us a better distro since we won't have to double efforts on development and bug resolution. Obviously, this is all MHO. Rafa -- "We cannot treat computers as Humans. Computers need love." rgriman@xxxxxxxxx
