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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