Promoting i386 version over x86_64?

Tomasz Torcz tomek at pipebreaker.pl
Fri Nov 20 11:46:29 UTC 2009


On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 12:23:33PM +0100, Benny Amorsen wrote:
> Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at> writes:
> 
> > This is, sadly, intentional. I and others have been complaining about this 
> > for months, we got ignored, all in the names of making things work for 
> > people who are not smart enough to figure out whether their computer is 64-
> > bit or not. The argument that almost all new non-netbook machines are 64-bit 
> > anyway also got ignored.
> 
> If only the 32-bit version was smart enough to install a 64-bit kernel
> when appropriate, this would not be such a disaster. Running a 32-bit
> kernel with 4GB of memory is asking for trouble, and machines with 4GB
> are probably as common as netbooks.

  Like in this failed F11 feature?
https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=Features/ArchitectureSupport&diff=86872&oldid=82905

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