Package: www.debian.org Severity: normal Various pages use the long architecture names 'AMD64' and 'Intel x86' for our architectures 'amd64' and 'i386'. The name 'AMD64' sometimes confuses users with Intel x86-64 chips, who instead download the installer or CD images for ia64. This is a waste of time and bandwidth for all concerned. The name 'Intel x86' is also inaccurate in that the i386 architecture runs on 32-bit x86 processors from many vendors.
I recommend the names '32-bit PC' and '64-bit PC' - they are not pedantically correct, but people should understand what they mean. Whatever you do, please avoid any vendor-specific names (including 'IA32' which is almost unknown outside of Intel manuals). At least the following pages use these names: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/ http://www.debian.org/ports/ http://www.debian.org/mirror/submit http://www.debian.org/CD/vendors/adding-form Most other pages using these names appear to be part of the installation manual or release notes, which can be dealt with separately. Ben. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers proposed-updates APT policy: (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-www-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100329015255.26095.42273.report...@localhost
