On Tue, 2010-09-28 at 17:32 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: > seth vidal wrote: > > i686 will run on x86_64 and i686 machines and on the overwhelming > > majority of hw someone will happen to have. > > > > x86_64 will not. > > x86_64 will also work on an overwhelming majority of hardware around. > Basically all non-netbook x86 hardware made in the last few years is 64-bit! > > > until i686 is uncommon (which is still not yet) > > It is. Excepting netbooks, you'll be hard-pressed to find a 32-bit-only > machine that's less than 3+ years old. Why do you think it's a good idea to except netbooks? And why do you assume running Fedora on a three year old machine isn't a fairly common case? (I have both 3+ year old 32-bit only machines and netbooks running Linux right here at home). -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
