On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 1:55 AM, Josephine Tannhäuser <josephine.tannhauser@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 2009/11/18, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell@xxxxxxxxx>: >> I noticed that http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora appears to be >> strongly promoting i386 Fedora over x86_64. Is this intentional or an >> oversight? > I think this is a script which reads your currently used architecture > and provide a dl link. please insert a x86_64 livecd and try it again! As others have pointed out: this is not so and probably can't produce reasonable results. On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 1:55 AM, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > However, if you just want a single "download now" button, 32-bit would get > you the widest hardware coverage. Absolutely. Although it was my understanding that the stated goal was to encourage everyone on capable hardware to run x86_64, and previous editions of the download page did seem to do that. I don't personally have much of a horse in that race beyond the fact that I argued against dropping support for some older systems in the 32 bit build based on the position that users on new hardware should be running x86_64. There is obviously a trade-off in having the simplest possible install vs getting people the best platform support. Considering the complexity of the overall install I think the extra work to select an architecture at download time would be a comparatively small hurdle. In any case— the trade-off here should be consciously chosen and not the result of an oversight in the development of the download page. (Which I think think is generally quite good). -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
