Changing the default 32-bit x86 arch for Fedora 12

Conrad Meyer cemeyer at u.washington.edu
Mon Jun 15 21:58:04 UTC 2009


On Monday 15 June 2009 02:48:44 pm Jerry James wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Bill Nottingham<notting at redhat.com> wrote:
> > Not that it matters for Fedora, but I doubt many people are paying
> > $whatever_the_price_of_RHEL_is to run on a 6, 7, 10-year old machine. And
> > RHEL 5 only supports (base) i686 or greater already.
>
> You know, I haven't seen anybody object to the "i686" part yet.  All
> of the objections, as far as I have noticed, have been to the "+ SSE2"
> part.

I have an i586 machine currently running Fedora 10, but I don't object to 
switching to i686 only for Fedora 12.

Regards,
-- 
Conrad Meyer <cemeyer at u.washington.edu>




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