Maybe not the default choice. x86_64 only accounts for about %25 of Fedora users according to Smolt.<br clear="all"><br>Sayonara,<br>Kamisamanou Burgess<br><a href="http://www.kamisamanou.net">http://www.kamisamanou.net</a><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 07:17, Rahul Sundaram <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sundaram@fedoraproject.org">sundaram@fedoraproject.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">drago01 wrote:<br>
> Hi,<br>
><br>
> Currently the website focuses on the x86 version of fedora and the<br>
> x86_64 version is hidden so unless the user knows that he is searching<br>
> for it, he will just download the x86 version.<br>
> We should promote the x86_64 as the default choice with a visible link<br>
> "For older PCs and Netbooks click *here*" (More information)".<br>
><br>
> In F11 effort was made to change the default x86 arch from i386 to<br>
> i586 to gain extra performance, but benchmarks that I have done back<br>
> than have clearly showed that you gain much more from moving moving to<br>
> x86_64.<br>
> Not only that you have access to more registers MMX, SSE and SSE2 can<br>
> be used unconditionally.<br>
<br>
</div>Can we get a recommendation from FESCo?<br>
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Rahul<br>
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