After watching the Nth person bitch on IRC that they downloaded the ia64 image when they meant to download the amd64 image, I have a constructive suggestion for improving matters.
Changing the architecture name would be very disruptive, so that's out. But we could easily change this: # netinst CD image (generally 135-175 MB) [alpha][amd64][arm][armel][hppa][i386][ia64][mips][mipsel][powerpc][sparc] to this: # netinst CD image (generally 135-175 MB) [x86 32-bit][x86 64-bit][PowerPC][ARM (new ABI)][ARM (old ABI)][DEC Alpha][HP PA-RISC][Itanium][MIPS][Little Endian MIPS][SPARC] (I realise this opens us to all kinds of bikeshedding around the exact wording, the ordering and so on. My suggestion is that someone just make a decision and stick to it, because almost anything would be better than the alphabetical arch-name list we currently have). -- Matthew Wilcox Intel Open Source Technology Centre "Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such a retrograde step." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
