From: Fabian Groffen <grobian@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] New keywords for non-Gentoo Linux platforms
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:48:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081010124819.GB12145@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2abdcd3o2.fsf@gmail.com>
On 10-10-2008 14:40:13 +0200, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote:
> Fabian Groffen <grobian@gentoo.org> writes:
>
> > - x64 is what the vendors (Apple, Sun) advertise themselves
>
> Err I'm sure I haven't seen any x64 in the documentation or
> advertisement of my MacBook Pro, are you sure _Apple_ uses that totally
> bogus name?
Ehm, no. So I must have been confused.
> Anyway, em64t might be better, but then again you're to the same point:
> an Opteron using an Intel name? I think amd64 is totally fine since it's
> the first commercial name it got by uh, those who introduced it, I
> guess, but the only thing I don't ever want to see officially is
> endorsing the x64 commercial speak.
Whatever. Some of you seem to have some quite agressive dislikement to
it. In the end it's just a name/tag. I guess I could live with
anything, including c3p0.
--
Fabian Groffen
Gentoo on a different level
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-10 12:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-09 18:11 [gentoo-dev] [RFC] New keywords for non-Gentoo Linux platforms Fabian Groffen
2008-10-09 22:05 ` Marius Mauch
2008-10-10 0:16 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2008-10-10 2:21 ` Marius Mauch
2008-10-10 7:15 ` Fabian Groffen
2008-10-10 12:40 ` Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
2008-10-10 12:48 ` Fabian Groffen [this message]
2008-10-10 15:56 ` Marius Mauch
2008-10-10 16:13 ` Robert Bridge
2008-10-10 15:21 ` Ryan Hill
2008-10-10 8:56 ` [gentoo-dev] " Michael Haubenwallner
2008-10-10 12:56 ` Jeremy Olexa
2008-10-13 5:16 ` [gentoo-dev] " Steve Long
2008-10-13 14:27 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2008-10-13 17:59 ` Fabian Groffen
2008-10-14 7:48 ` Michael Haubenwallner
2008-10-15 10:20 ` [gentoo-dev] " Steve Long
2008-10-17 14:22 ` [gentoo-dev] " Michael Haubenwallner
2008-10-21 14:09 ` [gentoo-dev] " Tiziano Müller
2008-10-21 19:01 ` Fabian Groffen
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