Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2012 18:18:41 -0700 From: Brian <brian@brianwhalen.net> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD ? Message-ID: <4FC969F1.5000204@brianwhalen.net> In-Reply-To: <201206020014.q520EwRU057625@hugeraid.jetcafe.org> References: <CAOgwaMvsv3e1TxDauV038Pp7LRiYeH7oAODE%2Bw-pxHt9oGrXMA@mail.gmail.com> <2730bd1bab4223e718193254cb8bbd60@dizum.com> <CADLo838vpbVP3caXG7LF7st4inWnMLi5zB3U1hD2dkXwf8ZLBg@mail.gmail.com> <20120601194621.GA83046@e-new.0x20.net> <201206020014.q520EwRU057625@hugeraid.jetcafe.org>
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On 6/1/2012 5:14 PM, Dave Hayes wrote: > Lars Engels<lars.engels@0x20.net> writes: >> I guess he made his experiences with that some years ago when support >> for amd64 in the ports was not very mature. But this has changed since >> then, apart from a few ports almost all of them should work on amd64 >> without problems. > I can vouch for this. I have several production and two development > amd64 machines. I've yet to have a problem with a port because of the > architecture. Early in the 7.x timeframe I had this experience; not recently. Back then I installed i386 on a 64 bit AM2 proc equipped machine after seeing funny port compile errors in amd64 that went away with i386. Brian
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