Still 32 bit recommendet

[Marius Gedminas]

On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 02:18:06PM +0200, Lucas.Betschart at crypto.ch wrote:
> According the ubuntu.com webside (ubuntu.com/download/desktop) 32 bit
> is still the recommended architecture.
> 
> I thought this will be 64bit in this release?

There was a recent discussion on the ubuntu-devel mailing list, and
people decided to keep the 32-bit version as default.

The decision was based on somewhat surprising data collected by the
Ubuntu Friendly project: 25% of submissions were from 32-bit machines.

Here's the entire thread:
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2012-April/thread.html#35054

Marius Gedminas
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