Hi,
On Sun, Sep 09, 2012 at 12:25:48PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
On Sun, 09 Sep 2012, Ben Hutchings wrote:
On Sat, 2012-09-08 at 22:46 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
On Sun, 09 Sep 2012, Russell Coker wrote:
On Sat, 8 Sep 2012, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On 09/10/2012 09:44 PM, Osamu Aoki wrote:
Why make things more complicated. What is the rationale to pick i686
over others now. Why change to x86-64 which is AMD origin. If slashed
to listing are list of vender released names, it should be
(AMD64/Intel 64). We picked one archive identifier at
On Tue, 11 Sep 2012, Thomas Goirand wrote:
On 09/10/2012 09:44 PM, Osamu Aoki wrote:
Why make things more complicated. What is the rationale to pick
i686 over others now. Why change to x86-64 which is AMD origin. If
slashed to listing are list of vender released names, it should be
On Sat, 2012-09-08 at 22:46 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
On Sun, 09 Sep 2012, Russell Coker wrote:
On Sat, 8 Sep 2012, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh h...@debian.org wrote:
If 64-bit PC is too vague, the alternative designator for the amd64 arch
is the vendor neutral x86-64.
On Sun, 09 Sep 2012, Ben Hutchings wrote:
On Sat, 2012-09-08 at 22:46 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
On Sun, 09 Sep 2012, Russell Coker wrote:
On Sat, 8 Sep 2012, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh h...@debian.org wrote:
If 64-bit PC is too vague, the alternative designator for the
On 9 September 2012 16:49, Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote:
On Sat, 2012-09-08 at 22:46 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
But I object to 32-bit PC and 64-bit PC. i686, amd64, x86-32, x86-64...
at least those are correct.
But none of them are widely understood.
But they are
On Sun, 2012-09-09 at 23:06 +0200, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
On 9 September 2012 16:49, Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote:
On Sat, 2012-09-08 at 22:46 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
But I object to 32-bit PC and 64-bit PC. i686, amd64, x86-32,
x86-64...
at least
On Sun, Sep 09, 2012 at 11:06:17PM +0200, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
32-bit PC and 64-bit PC mean nothing,
I think a lot more people know which of those they have.
Do they, I wonder? Anyway, while it seems a nice idea to try and
No, they do not.
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On Sat, 8 Sep 2012, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh h...@debian.org wrote:
If 64-bit PC is too vague, the alternative designator for the amd64 arch
is the vendor neutral x86-64. The vendor-neutral designator for all of
i386, i486, i586, i686, amd64 and x32 is x86 (i.e. it is for both 32-bit
and
On Sun, 09 Sep 2012, Russell Coker wrote:
On Sat, 8 Sep 2012, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh h...@debian.org wrote:
If 64-bit PC is too vague, the alternative designator for the amd64 arch
is the vendor neutral x86-64. The vendor-neutral designator for all of
i386, i486, i586, i686, amd64 and
Hi Ben,
On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 07:17:52PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
I've previously requested that various user-facing references to
'i386' and 'amd64' should be changed to the hopefully more
understandable '32-bit PC' and '64-bit PC', with some success. Please
could the publicity team
On Fri, 07 Sep 2012, Francesca Ciceri wrote:
On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 07:17:52PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
I've previously requested that various user-facing references to
'i386' and 'amd64' should be changed to the hopefully more
understandable '32-bit PC' and '64-bit PC', with some
On 09/06/2012 05:37 AM, Patrick Matthäi wrote:
Am 05.09.2012 23:24, schrieb martin f krafft:
I said fglrx — because its binary-only version caused regular
crashes and headaches for Linux users.
Which is ATM more useful as nvidia prop. ones. And AMD (not the ATI in
the past) is in
Le jeudi 06 septembre 2012 à 16:00 +0800, Thomas Goirand a écrit :
Would you then advise for an AMD card over Nvidia?
Is it better supported, and integrate with the standard
desktop screen switcher(s), like xrandr and friends?
Yes AMD is better supported, but for some models the performance
Am 06.09.2012 10:10, schrieb Josselin Mouette:
Le jeudi 06 septembre 2012 à 16:00 +0800, Thomas Goirand a écrit :
Would you then advise for an AMD card over Nvidia?
Is it better supported, and integrate with the standard
desktop screen switcher(s), like xrandr and friends?
Yes AMD is better
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On 05.09.2012 19:36, W. Anderson wrote:
It is somewhat surprising and a little disappointing that Debian,
or any other GNU/Linux distribution would be making statements
that, in effect, give great public support to AMD in regard Linux,
when the
It is somewhat surprising and a little disappointing that Debian, or any
other GNU/Linux distribution would be making statements that, in effect,
give great public support to AMD in regard Linux, when the company has
for many years been decidedly ambivalent and generally uncooperative
towards the
On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 12:36:36PM -0400, W. Anderson wrote:
It is somewhat surprising and a little disappointing that Debian, or any
other GNU/Linux distribution would be making statements that, in effect,
give great public support to AMD in regard Linux, when the company has
for many years
also sprach W. Anderson kimalc...@nac.net [2012.09.05.1836 +0200]:
It is somewhat surprising and a little disappointing that Debian, or any
other GNU/Linux distribution would be making statements that, in effect,
give great public support to AMD in regard Linux,
The statement was not about AMD
Am 05.09.2012 18:36, schrieb W. Anderson:
It is somewhat surprising and a little disappointing that Debian, or any
other GNU/Linux distribution would be making statements that, in effect,
give great public support to AMD in regard Linux, when the company has
for many years been decidedly
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On 09/05/2012 02:10 PM, martin f krafft wrote:
Nothing we can do about it now.
The news posting at http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2012/17/#amd64 could be
edited to change the
first reference to amd64 in the text to link to
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 9:36 AM, W. Anderson kimalc...@nac.net wrote:
It is somewhat surprising and a little disappointing that Debian, or any
other GNU/Linux distribution would be making statements that, in effect,
give great public support to AMD in regard Linux, when the company has for
many
On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 06:04:00PM +0100, Neil McGovern wrote:
On Wed, Sep 05, 2012 at 12:36:36PM -0400, W. Anderson wrote:
It is somewhat surprising and a little disappointing that Debian, or any
other GNU/Linux distribution would be making statements that, in effect,
give great public
also sprach Patrick Matthäi pmatth...@debian.org [2012.09.05.1902 +0200]:
amd64 is the name of the x64 CPU architecture and also with my fglrx hat
on I think you do not know about what you are speaking (just have got a
look at radeon)..
Radeon being owned by AMD and fglrx not having the best
On Wed, 2012-09-05 at 20:57 +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
also sprach Patrick Matthäi pmatth...@debian.org [2012.09.05.1902 +0200]:
amd64 is the name of the x64 CPU architecture and also with my fglrx hat
on I think you do not know about what you are speaking (just have got a
look at
Am 05.09.2012 20:57, schrieb martin f krafft:
also sprach Patrick Matthäi pmatth...@debian.org [2012.09.05.1902 +0200]:
amd64 is the name of the x64 CPU architecture and also with my fglrx hat
on I think you do not know about what you are speaking (just have got a
look at radeon)..
Radeon
also sprach Patrick Matthäi pmatth...@debian.org [2012.09.05.2231 +0200]:
AMD also supports Debian (just now with an special point release
for Wheezy). I do not think that AMD (not the past ATI) is evil
and such foo should stop here.
Good thing I asked…
And why hasn't got radeon a good
Am 05.09.2012 23:24, schrieb martin f krafft:
I said fglrx — because its binary-only version caused regular
crashes and headaches for Linux users.
Which is ATM more useful as nvidia prop. ones. And AMD (not the ATI in
the past) is in general interested (and already legaly checked) in
opening
On 05/09/12 18:10, W. Anderson wrote:
It is somewhat surprising and a little disappointing that Debian, or any
other GNU/Linux distribution would be making statements that, in effect,
give great public support to AMD in regard Linux, when the company has
for many years been decidedly
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