Fedora 12 x86 DVD images

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Tue Nov 24 19:11:48 UTC 2009


On 11/25/2009 12:24 AM, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 12:24 -0600, Sir Gallantmon wrote:
>> 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. 
> 
> Because that's not what uname says.  Change that, and then we'll talk.

What uname says doesn't have to match the ISO arch name at all. The
suggestion above is very valid and you should consider implementing it
to avoid confusion. Our users would be thankful and so would I, not
having to answer questions about this anymore.

Rahul




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