Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 18:53:09 +0400 From: "Andrew P." <infofarmer@gmail.com> To: Nathan Vidican <nvidican@wmptl.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AMD64 vs i386 on a Dual Opteron Box Message-ID: <cb5206420510120753g17c471e4i252a5f079d6f514@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <434D2195.9090606@wmptl.com> References: <434D1A10.1000701@wmptl.com> <cb5206420510120724i556e3bc1w88648932df72f325@mail.gmail.com> <434D2195.9090606@wmptl.com>
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On 10/12/05, Nathan Vidican <nvidican@wmptl.com> wrote: > Thanks, I did not realize that there was an RC1 out for 6.0 already. Any > ideas how far off 6.0-RELEASE may be? Realistically the O/S has become > the least important issue on these servers; they're basically ldap/nss > clients sharing data via samba from UFS file systems... a drop-in > replacement to an NT fileserver/domain controller. > > I'll see what I can do to maybe get 6.0-RC1 running on a desktop in here > somewhere today... even if just to demo it for myself. I'm running > Novell's NLD (Novell Linux Desktop; based on Suse Desktop) now on my > laptop (the machine which I write this email from now)... I'd MUCH > rather be running FreeBSD, but the videocard has issues, and nVidia > (bless their hearts) has released binary drivers for FreeBSD, but only > for FreeBSD/i386... :( - I have emailed, and nagged to get them to > compile/post for amd64, but to no avail thus far. I would love to have > FreeBSD on this thing though... > The last 6.0-BETA was as stable as it gets in 90% of cases. We all hope that 6.0-RELEASE is about 10-15 days off. I run 6.0 on desktops and servers since BETA2 - and I have absolutely no issues whatsoever. None. Except for unbelievably fast disk performance. It's wonderful.
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