On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Jeff Spaleta<jspaleta@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Just as an aside, can we do anything to help people identify whether > their hardware is 64bit capable? grep lm /proc/cpuinfo Fedora doesn't even indicate what video card that they're using why should it provide a way to discover the 64bit capability. > I'm thinking specifically with people with "Centrino" stickered > laptops of unclear vintage who may not realize that they have a 64bit > capable machine even when they do. The Centrino branding doesn't > exactly make it obvious as Intel pushed 64bit capability into the > brand at some point (2006 ?). > > How many people are running 32bit Fedora on 64bit capable hardware > without realizing its 64bit capable laptop hardware? I think that those that care probably know and are running x86_64. If they're like me, they stick the x86_64 cd into their wife's computer and discover that it's got one of older processors when it gives the error message. Trying to berate people into using x86_64 as I've seen in this and other threads has gotten annoying. People that run i386 on x86_64 capable hardware usually have a reason. On my work laptop, I run i386 simply because it makes my life easier. I have to work with proprietary software that is mostly 32bit. I don't want to deal with having to make sure that I've got the various 32bit libraries installed. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
