From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 31 17:38:09 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2675816A41F for ; Sun, 31 Jul 2005 17:38:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from benlutz@datacomm.ch) Received: from maxlor.mine.nu (c-213-160-32-54.customer.ggaweb.ch [213.160.32.54]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95CDE43D4C for ; Sun, 31 Jul 2005 17:38:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from benlutz@datacomm.ch) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by maxlor.mine.nu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EEE314C; Sun, 31 Jul 2005 19:38:07 +0200 (CEST) Received: from maxlor.mine.nu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (midgard [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 02253-05; Sun, 31 Jul 2005 19:38:06 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [10.0.0.23] (mini.intranet [10.0.0.23]) by maxlor.mine.nu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34C1914; Sun, 31 Jul 2005 19:38:06 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <42ED0C79.5090103@datacomm.ch> Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 19:38:01 +0200 From: Benjamin Lutz User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Macintosh/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: dick hoogendijk References: <20050731191241.3ca8846e.dick@nagual.st> In-Reply-To: <20050731191241.3ca8846e.dick@nagual.st> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.92.0.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig894C1270F65264FB400F9A22" X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at maxlor.mine.nu Cc: fbsdq Subject: Re: what to do? amd64 - i386 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: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 17:38:09 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig894C1270F65264FB400F9A22 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit dick hoogendijk wrote: > Personally I think it is wiser to wait for fbsd-6.x to make the > transfer and use my (old) FreeBSD-5.4-i386 version on my new machine. Yeah, that's a good idea. 6.0-RELEASE is currently scheduled for August 15. Or you could install 6.0-BETA1 now. It runs pretty well here, and if you do experience glitches, there's your chance to have them fixed in -RELEASE. > But maybe I'm wrong about this assumption. FreeBSD will be my main > system. I will use a lot of ports and don't mind reinstalling, but it > should be worthwile. I know the OS itself will be faster, but how about > ports. Is there a way to find out which ports will or will not build? Yes. Ports that are known not to build on certain architectures have an ONLY_FOR_ARCH flag set. Eg: cd /usr/ports/www/opera; make -V ONLY_FOR_ARCH will tell you that opera only works on i386. I noticed though that a lot of ports that are marked i386 actually work on amd64, sometimes right away, sometimes with a little bit of hacking. > Using the i386 version gives me no hassle at all I guess, but.. (??) ...but programs like oggenc are 50% faster in amd64 mode ;) There are a few things that will not work at all on amd64 right now, however: OpenOffice.org, proprietary media codecs, hardware OpenGL acceleration... Personally, I have two installations of FreeBSD, both i386 and amd64. They share /home. i386 is my production version, and the amd64 installation is for playing around (or when the added speed comes in handy). Why not try that arrangement. That way you can periodically check up on FreeBSD/amd64's progress and decide yourself when you want to switch. Cheers Benjamin --------------enig894C1270F65264FB400F9A22 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (Darwin) iD8DBQFC7Qx9gShs4qbRdeQRAqM2AJ4qgETLjhtbkPMv3PQYv8w+lcKgbACfe29b B0O1//aaR+mQQjizndG8Al8= =bkCC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig894C1270F65264FB400F9A22--