On Tue, 2010-09-28 at 11:05 -0500, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > Adam Williamson wrote: > > 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). > > The compromise is that the web team should be sniffing the User Agent of > the browser for the machine arch and present a download option to match. > > Scenario: You are running a 32-bit browser on a 64-bit machine and > browse Fedoraproject.org. Fedoraproject.org should present a 64-bit > installer. Yes, it can be done. The user agent, at least for Firefox, > contains the machine arch even if you use the 32-bit browser. That's a neat idea, but presupposes the machine you're downloading with is the only one you intend to use the image on. > There is no valid, non-subjective reason to continue running a 32-bit > kernel on a 64-bit system. This entire thread is a nice joke to read. I don't believe anyone said there was, so this is a straw man. -- 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
