From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 16 10:34:35 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBEFA1065672 for ; Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:34:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from beech@alaskaparadise.com) Received: from bsdevel.alaskaparadise.com (bsdevel.alaskaparadise.com [208.86.224.193]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 998958FC27 for ; Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:34:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from beech@alaskaparadise.com) Received: from stargate.alaskaparadise.com (52-32-237-24.gci.net [24.237.32.52]) by bsdevel.alaskaparadise.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A3B928E107D; Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:14:54 +0000 (UTC) From: Beech Rintoul To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, anthony.rasat@gmail.com Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 01:14:53 -0900 User-Agent: KMail/1.10.3 (FreeBSD/8.0-CURRENT; KDE/4.1.3; i386; ; ) References: <1924707459-1229421050-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-691910828-@bxe1001.bisx.prodap.on.blackberry> In-Reply-To: <1924707459-1229421050-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-691910828-@bxe1001.bisx.prodap.on.blackberry> Organization: FreeBSD MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200812160114.53803.beech@alaskaparadise.com> Cc: Subject: Re: i686 CPU Compatibility X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: beech@alaskaparadise.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 10:34:35 -0000 On Tuesday 16 December 2008 00:50:30 Anthony M. Rasat wrote: > Abd Hamid Shamsi wrote: > >I just want to ask, is this freeBSD compatible with my > >i686 CPU. if there any, please advice me what version > >should i use. > > FreeBSD came with two x86 flavour (can I said that? LOL sorry just had an > ice cream earlier) which is x86 (32-bit) and x86_64 (64-bit). > > The x86 flavour is intended for old 386, 486 and 585 (starting from Pentium > Pro and upward version) to latest Pentium 4 Dual Core. The x86 can handle > multi processor architechture with SMP kernel which is available by > default. > > The x86_64 flavour intended for AMD64 architechture that current Intel Core > 2 Duo and since AMD Sempron and upward employed. However, this is not for > IA64 which is totally different version of FreeBSD (I think) have created > for it. > > If you aim for tested stable version of FreeBSD, you can use > FreeBSD-6.x-RELEASE lines. However if your hardware is up to current (say > no less than 2 years tops) and you want the bleeding-edge version of > applications, you can try FreeBSD-7.0-RELEASE line (7.1 version is still in > Release Candidate stage and not recommended except for testers). > > Hopes that what you're looking for. 7.0 is perfectly stable and is recommended for production use. It's not bleeding edge code. That's 8.0-CURRENT which is NOT for production use. Unless you have a particular reason for using 6.x I would go with 7.0 It's fully tested. Beech -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Beech Rintoul - FreeBSD Developer - beech@FreeBSD.org /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | FreeBSD Since 4.x \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | http://people.freebsd.org/~beech X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Skype: akbeech / \ - http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/7.0R/announce.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------