OT: What's the deal with Ubuntu?

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at redhat.com
Wed May 11 12:25:11 UTC 2005


Hi

>Not sure if anyone here's commented on the AMD-64 experience. Both
>Fedora and Ubuntu are very good on AMD-64. But they have weaknesses in
>their x86 support.
>
>On Fedora, if you parallel-install AMD-64 and x86 RPMs, then just remove
>the x86 one, in my experience RPM will remove the shared files too,
>which it probably shouldn't. (Which can be a problem if you decide to
>nuke x86 support and remove the glibc x86-arch RPMs: it breaks language
>support...)
>
It generally doesnt do that. If it does it for a specific package you 
should report it as a bug

regards
Rahul




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