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Bug#575012: x86 architecture names are confusing



On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 23:07:04 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 10:09:24PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
> > tags 575012 wontfix
> > severity 575012 wishlist
> > thanks
> >
> > On Monday 22 March 2010, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > > The current installation and download links referring to 'AMD64'
> > > sometimes confuse users with Intel x86-64 chips, who instead select
> > > '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'.
> > 
> > It's a known issue and I appreciate your concern, but I'm not going to 
> > change this exclusively in the installation guide.
> > 
> > The installation guide currently simply follows the terminology used for in 
> > general for the project.
> > 
> > If it needs to be changed, then it needs to be done (in a coordinated 
> > fashion) for the whole distribution and not just for a single document.
> 
> The two places I see these long names are the installation guide and the
> release notes.  Download pages all seem to use the short names, but that's
> a different bug.
> 
> Tagging this 'wontfix' is simply obstructive, given you agree this should
> be fixed - even if not immediately.
> 
This has now been changed in the release-notes and webwml.  Can somebody
take care of the installation guide?

Cheers,
Julien

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