All, As interesting (or not) as this discussion may be, please note that this is the CentOS-devel mailing list and, thus, is not the appropriate venue -- as it has no relevance to the ongoing development of CentOS. Putting that into perspective, the core components of the CentOS Project are those products that are aimed to be 100% binary compatible with the Upstream Vendor's products. Therefore if i386 is used upstream as a label, it will also be used likewise by the CentOS Project. Please take the discussion of processors, instruction sets, et al, to the CentOS general m/l. In peace and friendship, Alan. :-)