From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 12 14:53:10 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96B0916A41F for ; Wed, 12 Oct 2005 14:53:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from infofarmer@gmail.com) Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.201]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00D7543D46 for ; Wed, 12 Oct 2005 14:53:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from infofarmer@gmail.com) Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id z31so122431nzd for ; Wed, 12 Oct 2005 07:53:09 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=dyKvbTq/hQvrZx6LJZbVRNvdCOWGlGPFfcBjxJy+AvrD/Olo4SqlABMwAjKonNJQsGy/OqzPZ7s58FkAfODmzT9SiimNnVHZDaXQl2HSgwMcfDaI46YUfvsLEakLUKe3kZnpd/zEaGig4Vx0T88tuS+Nob/dMXW2gtsCTkDjNys= Received: by 10.36.58.7 with SMTP id g7mr1019757nza; Wed, 12 Oct 2005 07:53:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.37.20.34 with HTTP; Wed, 12 Oct 2005 07:53:09 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 18:53:09 +0400 From: "Andrew P." To: Nathan Vidican In-Reply-To: <434D2195.9090606@wmptl.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <434D1A10.1000701@wmptl.com> <434D2195.9090606@wmptl.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AMD64 vs i386 on a Dual Opteron Box X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 14:53:10 -0000 On 10/12/05, Nathan Vidican wrote: > Thanks, I did not realize that there was an RC1 out for 6.0 already. Any > ideas how far off 6.0-RELEASE may be? Realistically the O/S has become > the least important issue on these servers; they're basically ldap/nss > clients sharing data via samba from UFS file systems... a drop-in > replacement to an NT fileserver/domain controller. > > I'll see what I can do to maybe get 6.0-RC1 running on a desktop in here > somewhere today... even if just to demo it for myself. I'm running > Novell's NLD (Novell Linux Desktop; based on Suse Desktop) now on my > laptop (the machine which I write this email from now)... I'd MUCH > rather be running FreeBSD, but the videocard has issues, and nVidia > (bless their hearts) has released binary drivers for FreeBSD, but only > for FreeBSD/i386... :( - I have emailed, and nagged to get them to > compile/post for amd64, but to no avail thus far. I would love to have > FreeBSD on this thing though... > The last 6.0-BETA was as stable as it gets in 90% of cases. We all hope that 6.0-RELEASE is about 10-15 days off. I run 6.0 on desktops and servers since BETA2 - and I have absolutely no issues whatsoever. None. Except for unbelievably fast disk performance. It's wonderful.