Comment 138 for bug 585940

Amrit, are you in a position to work on this? There is a discussion on ubuntu-devel list about it that you might like to join in. Personally I would recommend novice users just use the 64bit CD. This way it will work on modern computers with EFI or BIOS and anything back to the very early Atom netbooks (N200 series, the first round of netbooks). Anything it doesn't work on is way below the recommended spec anyway. Expert users who want to get something up on a really old (pre 2006) computer can choose the 32 bit option if they want - but their machine is not going to give a good experience if it doesn't have hardware 3d and ends up doing unity with llvmpipe. In short, we don't run well on anything that can't do 64 bit so novices should not be going for 32 bit at all.