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Subject: Re: Intel C2D COREs not used equally in FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT	i386
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Robert Huff wrote:
> 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.
> 
And of course the lack of an nvidia driver port.

> 
> 				Robert Huff
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