On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 10:22 AM, Jesse Keating <jkeat...@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 10:38 +0100, Andrea Musuruane wrote: > > Hi all, > > some Fedora users just pointed me out that the x86 DVD image names > > are not accurate. The install DVD is called Fedora-12-i386-DVD.iso > > while the live DVD is called Fedora-12-i686-Live.iso. Please note the > > i386 text in the install DVD file name. This is creating some > > confusion among users because they tend to believe that packages are > > still compiled for i386 and not for i686. > > > > Bye. > > > > Andrea. > > > > The base arch of the family is i386, just like we call the ppc spin > "ppc" even though it only supports a subset of the ppc family, ditto > sparc, arm, etc... > > -- > Jesse Keating > Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature! > identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating > > 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.
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