From owner-freebsd-embedded@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 8 15:13:05 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-embedded@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A9E1106566B for ; Thu, 8 Oct 2009 15:13:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andrew@ugh.net.au) Received: from starbug.ugh.net.au (starbug.ugh.net.au [202.3.36.37]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22A688FC23 for ; Thu, 8 Oct 2009 15:13:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (starbug.ugh.net.au [202.3.36.37]) by starbug.ugh.net.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB9DB386C51 for ; Fri, 9 Oct 2009 01:23:30 +1000 (EST) Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2009 01:23:30 +1000 (EST) From: Andrew To: freebsd-embedded@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20091008132006.70957695@ernst.jennejohn.org> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) X-WonK: *wibble* MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Subject: Re: Sorry for the inconvenience X-BeenThere: freebsd-embedded@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Dedicated and Embedded Systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:13:05 -0000 On Thu, 8 Oct 2009, Olivier Gautherot wrote: > I recently installed successfully FreeBSD 8.0 on an Atom-based motherboard - > works great!!! I would also recommend the i386 distribution. Just for a counterpoint, I am running FreeBSD 7.2 amd64 on an atom based motherboard. amd64 works fine and my rough understanding of intel type architectures say you are better off with amd64 over i386 when given the choice (more registers etc). HTH, Andrew