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Date:      Tue, 17 Jan 2017 09:42:18 +0000
From:      Mike Clarke <jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Second attempt at FreeBSD-11.0-RELEASE-i386, Xorg, and Xfce graphical desktop
Message-ID:  <20170117094218.104c86e1@curlew.lan>
In-Reply-To: <18a5de5c-bc3a-c2e8-32c1-ea0a12d446ac@holgerdanske.com>
References:  <18a5de5c-bc3a-c2e8-32c1-ea0a12d446ac@holgerdanske.com>

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On Mon, 16 Jan 2017 19:16:59 -0800
David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> wrote:

> Therefore, I have been evaluating various BSD distributions over the 
> past several weeks using a computer with an Intel DQ67SW motherboard, 
> i7-2600S CPU, 8 GB RAM, and 16 GB SATA SSD:

[snip]

> So, I am making a second attempt at FreeBSD using:
> 
> FreeBSD-11.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick.img

Though not directly relevant to your question the i386 image is
a 32 bit system so you'd get better performance if you installed
FreeBSD-11.0-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img instead to take full advantage
of your 64 bit processor and all 8GB of your RAM.

-- 
Mike Clarke



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