Re: Bug#240896: not pending anymore
Previously Stephen Frost wrote:
> Right, and the people who go out and *buy* the processors will see amd64
> on them and not see x86-64 anywhere. Sounds just great.
I have yet to see any box in a show that has an architecture name on it.
I have never seen a shop, box, folder, etc. that says 'i386', 'amd64',
etc.
> No, obviously not unless you consider the Gentoo, Mandrake and *Debian*
> developers who chose amd64. Those Debian developers also being the vast
> majority of the people who *worked* on the port.
Strange then that the developers who did the vast work on the port want
a different name than the devel tools themselves use.
> So Gentoo and Mandrake aren't popular and the Debian developers and
> users don't count? False statements can imply anything, it'd be much
> more interesting if you were a bit more creative at least.
Amongst the average user for whom it is most important to see a familiar
name they can immediately recognize Gentoo and Debian are not popular.
Those are the people who buy boxes in stores and download something
glitzy with graphical installers and spiced up GUIs.
Wichert.
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http://www.wiggy.net/ It is hard to make things simple.
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