Maybe not the default choice. x86_64 only accounts for about %25 of Fedora
users according to Smolt.
Sayonara,
Kamisamanou Burgess
http://www.kamisamanou.net
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 07:17, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram(a)fedoraproject.org>wrote:
drago01 wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Currently the website focuses on the x86 version of fedora and the
> x86_64 version is hidden so unless the user knows that he is searching
> for it, he will just download the x86 version.
> We should promote the x86_64 as the default choice with a visible link
> "For older PCs and Netbooks click *here*" (More information)".
>
> In F11 effort was made to change the default x86 arch from i386 to
> i586 to gain extra performance, but benchmarks that I have done back
> than have clearly showed that you gain much more from moving moving to
> x86_64.
> Not only that you have access to more registers MMX, SSE and SSE2 can
> be used unconditionally.
Can we get a recommendation from FESCo?
Rahul
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