Do you mean FESCo?<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 Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 04:56, drago01 <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:drago01@gmail.com">drago01@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 7:51 PM, drago01 <<a href="mailto:drago01@gmail.com">drago01@gmail.com</a>> 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>
> Besides this x86_64 allows the use of more memory and memory prices<br>
> are dropping significantly lately. (Desktops running 12GB of RAM is<br>
> nothing impossible or overly expensive now).<br>
><br>
> Please don't let this end up in ix86 vs x86_64 flamewar.<br>
> Yes they are cases where x86 is the better choice (when memory and<br>
> diskspace are limited, but that exactly is covered by "older hardware<br>
> and netbooks")<br>
><br>
> So please consider changing the default to x86_64.<br>
><br>
><br>
> P.S:<br>
> CC me when replying.<br>
><br>
<br>
</div>Any comment from the website team?<br>
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