From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jan 31 23:55: 3 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F72C37B401 for ; Fri, 31 Jan 2003 23:55:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from jive.SoftHome.net (jive.SoftHome.net [66.54.152.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6598043F75 for ; Fri, 31 Jan 2003 23:55:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from temperanza@softhome.net) Received: (qmail 6376 invoked by uid 417); 1 Feb 2003 07:55:01 -0000 Received: from tap-.softhome.net (HELO jive.SoftHome.net) (172.16.2.22) by shunt-smtp-out-0 with SMTP; 1 Feb 2003 07:55:01 -0000 Received: (qmail 19040 invoked by uid 417); 1 Feb 2003 07:55:00 -0000 Received: from adsl-63-194-84-111.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net (HELO dsl-63-194-84-111.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net) (63.194.84.111) by 192.168.0.30 with SMTP; 1 Feb 2003 07:55:00 -0000 Received: from tomoyo (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Fri, 31 Jan 2003 23:55:02 -0800 (PST)dsl-63-194-84-111.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with SMTP id h117t2T1067638 for ; Fri, 31 Jan 2003 23:55:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from temperanza@softhome.net) Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 23:55:02 -0800 From: La Temperanza To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Learning about other architectures Message-Id: <20030131235502.08f068c8.temperanza@softhome.net> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.9 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I currently own an Athlon XP 1700+ and am toying with the idea of saving up for a computer of different platform- preferably Alpha, or possibly SPARC/IA64/PPC, but I think I could live with using NetBSD if the best choice isn't supported under Free. I'm pretty uninformed, so tell me about some of the alternatives to x86. Will I be able to match or improve performance/stability/etc as a home UNIX user? How is sound and graphics support (since I listen to music, watch DVDs in mplayer and like to play the occasional 3D game)? Are there any other caveats I should know about? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message