Fedora 12 x86 DVD images

[Sir Gallantmon]

On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 10:38 +0100, Andrea Musuruane wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >     some Fedora users just pointed me out that the x86 DVD image names
> > are not accurate. The install DVD is called Fedora-12-i386-DVD.iso
> > while the live DVD is called Fedora-12-i686-Live.iso. Please note the
> > i386 text in the install DVD file name. This is creating some
> > confusion among users because they tend to believe that packages are
> > still compiled for i386 and not for i686.
> >
> > Bye.
> >
> > Andrea.
> >
>
> The base arch of the family is i386, just like we call the ppc spin
> "ppc" even though it only supports a subset of the ppc family, ditto
> sparc, arm, etc...
>
> --
> Jesse Keating
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>
>

Why not label it "x86_32" instead of i386? That is far less confusing and
illustrates that it is 32-bit on the x86 architecture, since x86_64 says it
is 64-bit on x86 architecture.
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