Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:57:06 -0400 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: "FreeBSD Questions" <ml.freebsd.questions@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Ports and 64-bit Processors Message-ID: <20080829105706.cb72b17d.wmoran@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <10549b080808290744u659d89f9m4c959a968cbe17e1@mail.gmail.com> References: <10549b080808290744u659d89f9m4c959a968cbe17e1@mail.gmail.com>
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In response to "FreeBSD Questions" <ml.freebsd.questions@gmail.com>: > FreeBSD has supported 64-bit architectures for a while now... Alpha > and UltraSPARC come to mind--even if Alpha is no longer a Tier 1 > architecture. I'm surprised to hear so many of you say that certain > ports are broken on AMD64. I would think if they worked on other > 64-bit processors they'd work on AMD64. Were the ports that are > broken on AMD64 also broken on those other architectures, too? Most of the ports I've had problems with are desktop applications. Stuff that doesn't often get installed/used on 64 bit. It's been a while since we've tried (about 1 year) but Gnome was pretty unstable on 64 bit at the time. Can't say if this is universal across all 64 bit platforms. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com
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