2009/6/16 梁穗隆 > > I hear that Fedora administrator will change the default 32-bit x86 arch for Fedora 12. The default arch is i686+SSE2. > > In my opinion, I do not want to change it. Or only change to i686. SSE2 is not necessary. > > Why do I think that? Because I live in China, and I have many friends who is using Fedora. But they use their old computer to install Fedora. They are extreme Fedora fans. But their CPU does not > support SSE2, for example Athlon XP 2500+(Barton Core) , Tualatin Pentium 3 at more than 1.2GHz, Some guys are using Dual Athlon or Pentium 3. With 1GB RAM, I think their computer have > enough performance to run Fedora 12. But If Fedora give up SSE-only CPU support, they will get away from Fedora and change to other Linux ditrubution. As I see, It is quite bad for Fedora project > and Fedora will lost a lot of users in developing countries. > > So I suggest that Fedora 12 change 32-bit x86 arch to i686+SSE, not i686+SSE2. > Another suggestion from me: - Let's keep F-12 the same: ppc, ppc64, i586, x86_64 - Since ppc and ppc64 are going to be dropped from F-13, fill in the blank spot with i686+SSE2, i.e. F-13: i586, i686+SSE2, x86_64 Everyone happy? Orcan -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
