On 09/28/2010 03:58 PM, mike cloaked wrote: > On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Andrew Haley <aph@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> 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. >> > > Some people use nightlies for example - > http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/latest-comm-1.9.2/ > Here there are no 64 bit versions that I am aware of? > > I do this when the stock version is somewhat behind even the stable > release from mozilla. eg in f12 the current thunderbird is 3.1.4 but > the current f12 version is 3.0.7, and similar for firefox. Yet this is > still a supported release - yes f13 is up to current stable releases > from mozilla for both of these. However in the mozilla filestore for > latest stable for thunderbird at: > > http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/3.1.4/linux-i686/en-GB/ > > there is no 64 bit version, so if running 64 bit f12 then it would be > necessary to install the 32 bit thunderbird and make sure that > necessary 32 bit libraries were also installed to make it run? > > Maybe there's something that I miss here, but the fact that the mozilla devs do not find necessary (or maybe they do not have the computing power...) to build 64bit binaries each day ( but mind that they DO build the 4 beta series for x86_64 ! ) has nothing to do with fedora's policy about 64bit apps, does it ? -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
