I've noticed that F12 will require a CPU with "i686" architecture, and that my Athlon 1.2GHz won't qualify. I accept that F11 is the last Fedora release that I'll be able to use. My concern is that many present Fedora users will be unpleasantly surprised that a new installation doesn't work, or at least that they've wasted the download. The Release Notes, starting with the F12 Alpha Release Notes, should tell users about this, and so should the release announcements. The difficulty is in telling them what exactly is an "i686" CPU, as that is defined by GCC and is said to be a moving target (over the years). I'm hoping that someone qualified can make the appropriate changes to the Releases Notes wiki (I don't know what all the requirements are, though I do know that the Athlon does not support SSE/SSE2). Is there a simple way for ordinary users to know if their CPU is expected to work on F12 (as an "i686" according to GCC)? Is there a tool to run that doesn't require downloading F12? -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/> -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
