On 09/28/2010 12:06 PM, mike cloaked wrote: > On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 9:37 AM, Andrew Haley <aph@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On 09/27/2010 10:03 PM, Jeff Spaleta wrote: >>> >>> If anything I would expect the 32bit Desktop Live torrent download >>> activity to be lower because of the promotion of the direct download >>> link of that particular iso. The splits in 32bit and 64bit download >>> activity in the torrent server is very suggestive of a continued >>> preference for 32bit installs regardless of what we promote. >> >> Sure, but the question is how much of that is simply due to a lack of >> awareness. To a first order approximation, if you have 64-bit >> hardware, then a 64-bit spin is better. We know that, but how many of >> our users do? The strong suggestion we make is that 32-bit is the >> default, and in the absence of any other information I'll always go >> for the default. As will most people... > > May I chip in another thought here? Although in principle it is > better if 64 bit versions are used on capable hardware there still > remains a series of issues with some code - eg firefox and thunderbird > are not always built for 64 bit Huh? Sure they are. Andrew. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
