Promoting i386 version over x86_64?

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Fri Nov 20 10:30:56 UTC 2009


On 11/20/2009 09:02 AM, Nicu Buculei wrote:
> On 11/19/2009 08:14 PM, Jesse Keating wrote:
>> On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 18:45 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>>> You must not confuse moblin with netbooks, nettops or with i386/32bit
>>> machines in general. The moblin desktop is addressing a completely
>>> different audience.
>>
>> Oh? That's not what I got from
>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/FedoraMoblin
>
> Moblin is not about hardware, you can run it on a powerful 64 bit
> desktop, while my netbook is perfectly able to run a normal GNOME desktop.
> Moblin is about users, made for those with a small set of basic needs,
> which in many cases are people using netbooks or less powerful hardware,
> but there are a lot of other user cases for such hardware, beyond Moblin.
>
Exactly.

As I tried to express several times before in this thread: Moblin is 
addressing and entirely different use-case.

Whether this use-case of interest in individual situations is a 
different question - To some it might be interesting, to me, it is not.

Ralf




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