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Subject: Re: freebsd for Sun Fire X4250
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Hi Gavin,

The reason I want to stick with i386 is because about few years ago
when I tried AMD release of FreeBSD, it didn't have the same level of
proficiency as i386 release of FreeBSD - packagThat was my impression
at that time. I hope it has changed in this years.
Is there any major installation difference between AMD (64) and i386
release of FreeBSD (8.0)?

Thank you for your answers.
Sam


On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Gavin Atkinson <gavin@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Jan 2010, Sam Wun wrote:
>> This server is built with Xeon cpu processor, Intel based.
>> Can FreeBSD 8+ fully compatible with this server like those ordinary
>> Intel i386 machine?
>
> Although it's hard to say (the Sun website doesn't realy give enough spec
> details), I'd be surprised if it doesn't work. =A0FreeBSD runs very nicel=
y
> on every Intel- and amd64-based Sun machine I've tried it on.
>
> You'll almost certainly want to use the FreeBSD amd64 release rather than
> i386, and I'd probably recommend 8.0-RELEASE, although 7.2 should work
> fine.
>
> By the way, this is the wrong list for questions like this: if you have
> any others, you're probably best off directing them to
> freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
>
> Gavin
>