From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 11 22:38:29 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30F9516A4CE for ; Thu, 11 Mar 2004 22:38:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from sarajevo.pacific.net.sg (sarajevo.pacific.net.sg [203.120.90.134]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1399F43D48 for ; Thu, 11 Mar 2004 22:38:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from oceanare@pacific.net.sg) Received: (qmail 23088 invoked from network); 12 Mar 2004 06:38:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO maxwell6.pacific.net.sg) (203.120.90.212) by sarajevo with SMTP; 12 Mar 2004 06:38:26 -0000 Received: from pacific.net.sg ([210.24.203.19]) by maxwell6.pacific.net.sg with ESMTP id <20040312063825.SXVS9972.maxwell6.pacific.net.sg@pacific.net.sg>; Fri, 12 Mar 2004 14:38:25 +0800 Message-ID: <40515AE1.30701@pacific.net.sg> Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 14:38:25 +0800 From: Erich Dollansky Organization: oceanare pte ltd User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en, en-us, de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tye References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: New To unix and linux need to find out whats right for my CPU X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 06:38:29 -0000 Hi, Tye wrote: > Hello my name is Tye and I have been looking at using a anther OS liike linux but so far not been inpressed with Mandrake, Red Hat, or Gentoo. I'm looking at using FreeBSD and want to know what type of Distro is right for my CPU I'm using a AMD K-6 2 with 3-D Tech. Your reply would help so much thank you for your time Tye You do not have to worry about distributions here. All you need to know is the architecture you machine is. You will need the i386 which should run just out of the box. You also have to decide on the version you want to use. 4.9 is the stable and 5.2 is the current one. Stable means real stable. I consider current more stable than Linux. But there are always some problems which can hit you like a lightning out of the blue sky. Oh, I just see it. You are subscribed to the wrong list. AMD64 is for Opterons only, not for Athlons and the other x86 CPUs AMD does. Erich