Fedora 12 x86 DVD images

Andre Robatino andre at bwh.harvard.edu
Tue Nov 24 20:00:08 UTC 2009


Jesse Keating wrote:

> Yes, we may rename the Live images to i386.  When they were first
> introduced, we had both an i586 and an i686 kernel in Fedora, and the
> Live images were only usable on i686, they had no i586.  Now that
> we don't have i586 anymore, we can change the live image name
> to i386.  It was too late to do this for F12 at the time
> somebody suggested it.

That makes everything consistent, but creates the same user confusion
for live images that presently exists for install images.  Since uname
isn't strictly adhered to even now, why not just change the install
labels to i686 instead?

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