On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 7:27 PM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Gregory Maxwell wrote:This is, sadly, intentional. I and others have been complaining about this
> I noticed that http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora appears to be
> strongly promoting i386 Fedora over x86_64. Is this intentional or an
> oversight?
for months, we got ignored, all in the names of making things work for
people who are not smart enough to figure out whether their computer is 64-
bit or not. The argument that almost all new non-netbook machines are 64-bit
anyway also got ignored.
IMHO, the right solution is to make the 64-bit edition the default download
and to work on making the error message people get when trying to install it
on a 32-bit machine nicer: "We're sorry, but your computer is too old to
install this 64-bit version of Fedora. Please download the legacy 32-bit
edition instead."
Kevin Kofler
Is it right to call 32-bit legacy though? As it is, the Intel architecture doesn't seem like a true 64-bit architecture. It seems more like it extends the 32-bit arch and wraps 64-bitness around it.
In any case, 32-bit shouldn't be considered legacy until every type of computer sold is 64-bit. And the fact is, that isn't true. Netbooks are entirely 32-bit currently, and a majority of low end desktops are still 32-bit only.
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