On 09/28/2010 01:58 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. Sure, but that's such a weird case that it's hardly relevant to the person who just wants a default Fedora. People who really need bleeding-edge Thunderbird presumably know who they are. > There must be quite a few other examples where people will want to run > specific codes that are not built for 64 bit? Of course, but that's hardly relevant here. This message was sent to you from thunderbird-3.1.5pre, downloaded from from that URL, running on my 64-bit Fedora system. Andrew. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
