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Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav writes:

>  > In practice there's (almost) only one reason not to run
>  > FreeBSD/amd64 on amd64-capable hardware:  If you depend
>  > on a certain piece of software which is known not to run
>  > correctly in 64bit mode.  Fortunately those are not many.
>  
>  The only one I can think of (for a desktop) is the Flash plugin.

	The last time I looked - a couple of months ago - I believe
mplayer was also not yet there.


				Robert Huff