From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 7 22:31:07 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A05E81065673 for ; Thu, 7 Jun 2012 22:31:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dpchrist@holgerdanske.com) Received: from holgerdanske.com (holgerdanske.com [184.105.128.27]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 89B3A8FC0A for ; Thu, 7 Jun 2012 22:31:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ::ffff:69.12.202.165 ([69.12.202.165]) by holgerdanske.com for ; Thu, 7 Jun 2012 15:30:58 -0700 Message-ID: <4FD12B9C.3070107@holgerdanske.com> Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2012 15:30:52 -0700 From: David Christensen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20120507 Icedove/3.0.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <1841053140.95816.1339040011608.JavaMail.root@md03.insight.synacor.com> In-Reply-To: <1841053140.95816.1339040011608.JavaMail.root@md03.insight.synacor.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Which FreeBSD for Intel i7-2600S and DQ67SWB3? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2012 22:31:07 -0000 On 06/06/2012 08:33 PM, Thomas Mueller wrote: > This looks like the processor I have, I think you would use amd64. Almost certainly your system is 64-bit as opposed to 32-bit. Thanks for the reply. :-) Yes, definitely 64-bit. > For a new computer, I wouldn't go with anything earlier than FreeBSD 9.0, and in my case, upgrading to 9.0-STABLE proved stabler than the 9.0 release. STFW: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2012-March/239742.html It looks like -STABLE are daily development/ test builds (?): ftp://ftp.allbsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-snapshots/amd64-amd64/ I'm looking for stability. I'll try the 9.0-RELEASE: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/ > Base system includes ZFS. Good. > I've never used virtual machines, but VirtualBox is popular for this purpose. VirtualBox does seem to be popular. It played with it on Debian Testing (Wheezy), but I believe the shared folder feature filled my root partition and I couldn't locate or remove the blockage. > Samba is in ports. Okay. > I don't recognize or don't remember DQ67SWB3 motherboard model, is it from MSI? Intel: http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/motherboards/desktop-motherboards/desktop-board-dq67sw.html I'm not sure what the "B3" suffix means, but it's on the box. A few other questions for the list, please: 1. Does FreeBSD support encrypted disk partitions (slices)? 2. Does the X server in FreeBSD (?) support Intel HD 2000 integrated graphics? David