On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 1:55 AM, Josephine Tannhäuser
<josephine.tannhauser(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
2009/11/18, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell(a)gmail.com>:
> I noticed that
http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora appears to be
> strongly promoting i386 Fedora over x86_64. Is this intentional or an
> oversight?
I think this is a script which reads your currently used architecture
and provide a dl link. please insert a x86_64 livecd and try it again!
As others have pointed out: this is not so and probably can't produce
reasonable results.
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 1:55 AM, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik(a)pobox.com> wrote:
However, if you just want a single "download now" button,
32-bit would get
you the widest hardware coverage.
Absolutely. Although it was my understanding that the stated goal was to
encourage everyone on capable hardware to run x86_64, and previous
editions of the download page did seem to do that.
I don't personally have much of a horse in that race beyond the fact that I
argued against dropping support for some older systems in the 32 bit build
based on the position that users on new hardware should be running x86_64.
There is obviously a trade-off in having the simplest possible install vs
getting people the best platform support. Considering the complexity of
the overall install I think the extra work to select an architecture at
download time would be a comparatively small hurdle.
In any case— the trade-off here should be consciously chosen and not the
result of an oversight in the development of the download page.
(Which I think think is generally quite good).