From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 12 09:50:12 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A052816A4CE for ; Fri, 12 Mar 2004 09:50:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from curacao.n2it.nl (62-177-157-186.bbeyond.nl [62.177.157.186]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17E8A43D2D for ; Fri, 12 Mar 2004 09:50:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from billsf@curacao.n2it.nl) Received: by curacao.n2it.nl (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 8F88C2057; Fri, 12 Mar 2004 18:50:10 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 18:50:10 +0100 From: Bill Squire To: Tye Message-ID: <20040312175010.GA60405@curacao.n2it.nl> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i cc: freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: New To unix and linux need to find out whats right for my CPU X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 17:50:12 -0000 On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 01:21:22AM -0500, Tye wrote: > Hello my name is Tye and I have been looking at using a anther OS liike linux but so far not been inpressed with Mandrake, Red Hat, or Gentoo. I'm looking at using FreeBSD and want to know what type of Distro is right for my CPU I'm using a AMD K-6 2 with 3-D Tech. Your reply would help so much thank you for your time Tye First learn how to type and how to properly format your letters. You would probably do best with Mandrake or Debian. If you want to play along with BSD, then Gentoo is certainly the one. Eventually, like on the i386, they will be allot of compatibility. Are you sure you are up to obsession this can bring? If you want to program, there is really only one Unix and as a very famous computer journalist said to me as I tried NetBSD for the first time: "They all drive the same." Right he was. Unix is the only way to compute in the 'real world'. If you want to show off, get a Mac: It is FreeBSD with a very likely 64bit future. (OSX-3 is not AFAIK or can tell -- One amd64 beats 4 G5's in the vast majority of benchmarks.) Apple is saying little, but the next Macs are amd64's, but do yourself a favour and build your own box: hardware and software! One word to the wise: "The 64bit future" is quite a number of years back for us real Unix hackers. Let's see, the second generation of Alphas (21164) is eight years old and I have one that has ran 24/7 for almost that long. Bill