On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 09:25:45AM -0800, John Reiser wrote: > On 01/24/2011 07:43 AM, drago01 wrote: > > It is the only 32bit only CPU still being sold, > > There are plenty of machines with 32-bit only CPUs (such as early Celeron, > Pentium socket 478, even some Core Duos [Apple Mini]) which run Fedora very well. > Many are less than 5 years old. In the US, that means the depreciation rules > of tax law strongly encourage their continued use. There's even plenty "still being sold". How about VIA, itx, and tons of other small/embedded stuff that isn't Atom. *However* optimizing for 32 bit surely has to be a waste of effort these days. People who want performance should be using 64 bit machines. For everyone else it's good enough that Fedora can still be used. Optimizing for Atom alone is justified because Netbooks are used interactively. So I think the Fedora flags are just right in this case. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones New in Fedora 11: Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and build Windows installers. Over 70 libraries supprt'd http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW http://www.annexia.org/fedora_mingw -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
