From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 27 11:28:08 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org 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 36C6216A427 for ; Fri, 27 Jan 2006 11:28:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from groot@kde.org) Received: from multi.science.ru.nl (multi.science.ru.nl [131.174.16.159]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86BA343D49 for ; Fri, 27 Jan 2006 11:28:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from groot@kde.org) Received: from odin.cs.kun.nl [131.174.33.33] (helo=localhost) by multi.science.ru.nl (8.13.5/5.7) with ESMTP id k0RBRvjw008399; Fri, 27 Jan 2006 12:27:57 +0100 (MET) From: Adriaan de Groot To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 12:28:02 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.3 References: <20060127020350.02abf989.kgunders@teamcool.net> In-Reply-To: <20060127020350.02abf989.kgunders@teamcool.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200601271228.02675.groot@kde.org> X-Spam-Score: -1.665 () BAYES_00 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.48 on 131.174.16.159 Cc: Subject: Re: fbsd-amd64 desktop X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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, 27 Jan 2006 11:28:09 -0000 On Friday 27 January 2006 10:03, Ken Gunderson wrote: > I've only run fbsd-amd64 on servers. My favorite server ports all > work great but not sure about status of desktop related stuff. For > example, I know OpenOffice has issues. Any other gotchas I should know > about? A lot depends on what kind of desktop you intend to run. KDE, for instance, has no gotchas that don't also apply to i386 (basically, many hardware detection and configuration things are linux-specific in that codebase, so they don't work on any FreeBSD). For common desktop applications like pirating CDs (k3b) and surfing dubious websites (webbrowser + mplayer), amd64 desktops are fine. -- As of September 1st, 2004, the University of Nijmegen will _still_ be the University of Nijmegen, but with a different nonsensical adjective in front. Reach me at groot@kde.org instead. GPG FEA2 A3FE