12.04 LTS: 64-bit desktop by default?

[Steve Langasek]

Hi Mike,

On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 11:09:19AM -0400, Michael Terry wrote:
> On 16/04/12 02:03, Steve Langasek wrote:
> >And regardless of which we decide to use as the default, both of amd64 and
> >i386 will continue to be supported architectures for the length of 12.04 LTS
> >and will remain available for download.

> There seems to be an unstated assumption that the default
> recommended architecture needs to stay the same throughout the
> lifecycle of 12.04 LTS.  Is that true?

I don't see us making such a change for a point release.  First, we don't
typically get CDs pressed of point releases; second, there is going to be
some confusion on the part of users about this change, and I think we can
better mitigate that if changing it as part of .0 instead of as a point
release.

> If we end up deciding to stick with i386 for now to better support
> common hardware, this question will still be re-evaluated for a
> future release.  And when it changes, we could go back and change
> the default download link and what is installed on the store USB
> sticks for 12.04 LTS.

We could, but I'm pretty sure it's not worth it at that point.

Cheers,
-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
Ubuntu Developer                                    http://www.debian.org/
slangasek at ubuntu.com                                     vorlon at debian.org
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