Howdy, OK, I'll take your advice. I am not trying to cause trouble. I just wanted it to be clear. I know when Maverick came out, I was one of those who missed the reference in the release notes and I messed up one of my servers and had to rebuild it. The name i386 in the architecture seems pretty obviously to mean that it supports 386 or higher cpus. But, there are more important things to focus on.
The text in the Maverick note seems fine. It did not look like something that would carry over to Natty. As long as it does, it is good enough for me. Intel does not call it EM64T anymore. They use the name Intel 64 for the feature. It does not seem like a good name to me, since it might confuse some people who had Intel 64 bit machines with the older 64 bit architecture. But, it is the right name, so I propose it be used. And there are lots of computers out there that are not 686 processors or higher with cmov support. So, I changed almost all to most computers. I say this because of how many embedded devices there are out there with geode or via processors. Lots of thin clients and firewalls can't run newer versions of Ubuntu. I am not criticizing here. The compiler optimizations were probably worth the move, but it did drop a lot of older computers out as candidates for Ubuntu. For the text at http://releases.ubuntu.com/natty/, here is my proposal. PC (Intel x86) desktop CD For most PCs. This includes most machines with Intel/AMD/etc type processors with 686 cpus or higher with cmov support. This would be most computers that run Microsoft Windows, as well as newer Apple Macintosh systems based on Intel processors. Choose this if you are at all unsure. 64-bit PC (AMD64) desktop CD Choose this to take full advantage of computers based on the AMD64 or Intel 64 architecture (e.g., Athlon64, Opteron, EM64T Xeon, Core 2). If you have a non-64-bit processor made by AMD, or an Intel CPU with IA-64(their older 64 bit technology) support or if you need full support for 32-bit code, use the Intel x86 images instead. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/751018 Title: i386 installer CDs are named improperly -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
