On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 02:52 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > 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).
FYI, I did a very quick survey... Ubuntu use: PC (Intel x86) // 64-bit PC (AMD64) Opensuse use: 32bit PC // 64bit PC Fedora use: i386 // x86-64 FreeBSD : i386 // amd64 NetBSD : i386 // amd64 The statistics from the French mirror suggests Ben is right: ftp://ftp.free.fr/stats/debiancd.monthly.201002.txt |___ Downloads per Arch ___| |__i386__|_amd64__|__ia64__| DVD | 583 | 211 | 43 | CD | 517 | 193 | 34 | When popcon says i386 = 64800 ; amd64 = 23700 ; ia64 = 80 Either lots of ia64 users don't enable popcon, or they get ia64 by mistake. My 2¢ Franklin -- 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/1269852547.26808.449.ca...@solid.paris.klabs.be