From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 7 06:30:08 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 056F616A403 for ; Fri, 7 Apr 2006 06:30:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-stable@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55BEC43D49 for ; Fri, 7 Apr 2006 06:30:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-stable@m.gmane.org) Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1FRkTq-0008S5-5A for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Fri, 07 Apr 2006 08:30:02 +0200 Received: from h140.c18.b96.tor.eicat.ca ([66.96.18.140]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 07 Apr 2006 08:30:02 +0200 Received: from x by h140.c18.b96.tor.eicat.ca with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 07 Apr 2006 08:30:02 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org From: Tim Middleton Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 00:18:23 -0400 Organization: VexTech Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: h140.c18.b96.tor.eicat.ca Mail-Copies-To: x@vex.net User-Agent: KNode/0.10.2 Sender: news Subject: Re: Pros and Cons of amd64 (versus i386). X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 06:30:08 -0000 Skipping all of your technical questions I'll tell you my experience. The only regret i have is one that makes me sometimes wish I'd not upgraded my desktop 64 bit... the dri drivers for xorg lock up my box (ATI card). This has been a thorn in my side for over 6 months now, but I just haven't had the time to try to debug and deal with it... Other than that, things have worked out quite nice. The way I get around the occasional software compatibility problems is that I run 32 bit linux emulation for a couple of things... amazingly enough this works (though i seem to recall I had to hack a Make file somewhere in ports to make it ignore DRI or something... sorry, hazy memory). I don't use it very often, so I don't mind. Until there are 64 bit versions for FreeBsd I have OpenOffice 2, and Skype, and a couple of other things running as 32bit linux apps. I'm actually just running generic kernel these days... i just can't be bothered compiling even a kernel for my desktop system... that's how lazy (or busy) I am. Works fine. -- Tim Middleton | Vex.Net | One afternoon, disgusted, bravo, you fall x@veX.net | VexTech.ca | asleep. --T.Lilburn (MS)