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From: Roy Bamford <neddyseagoon@g.o>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-project] Re: [gentoo-dev-announce] Cleanup of the "Get Gentoo" page
Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2010 07:21:07
Message-Id: 1281338458.2506.0@NeddySeagoon
1 On 2010.08.09 02:22, Paweł Hajdan, Jr. wrote:
2 > I'd like to suggest a cleanup of our "Get Gentoo" page. It is one of
3 > the
4 > more important pages, because every new user has to visit it.
5 >
6 [snip]
7 >
8 > What do you think?
9 >
10 >
11
12 I would like to see some explaination of what each arch covers. Many
13 users get the wrong iso/tarball the first time around.
14
15 e.g. x86 instead of i686 and vice versa, ia64 instead of amd64.
16
17 If this were a table, you could list the CPU families covered by each
18 group.
19
20 --
21 Regards,
22
23 Roy Bamford
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