From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 20 23:53:16 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 3471F16A420 for ; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 23:53:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rsh.lists@comcast.net) Received: from sccrmhc12.comcast.net (sccrmhc12.comcast.net [204.127.202.56]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E08343D62 for ; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 23:53:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rsh.lists@comcast.net) Received: from [192.168.1.11] (tardiss.hsd1.ma.comcast.net[66.30.82.93]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc12) with ESMTP id <2005102023524501200fi41ve>; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 23:53:10 +0000 Message-ID: <43582DC5.5030005@comcast.net> Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 19:52:37 -0400 From: Sean User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20050930) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Miguel References: <43581520.1060709@123.com.sv> In-Reply-To: <43581520.1060709@123.com.sv> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: xeon or Opteron X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: rsh.lists@comcast.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 23:53:16 -0000 Miguel wrote: > Hi, im my office we'll replace several DL380 Xeons at the end of the > year, i have been playing with serveral desktop using gentoo on amd 64, > great performance, several time faster than the pentiums, although we > prefer to use freebsd for the servers. i was wondering what is the > current state of the opterons on freebsd, should i wait a little more or > is stable enough to run it now? > May be i should stay on i386? > thanks > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > I have a dual opteron here which I was originally running with amd64. However I have since moved over to i386 on this system. Actually I just purchased another disk and installed the i386 version. This way I can easily play with the amd64 version whenever I wish. My main reason I moved was a few applications I use are not yet available on amd64, in particular openoffice. I was having a few other minor annoyances I was unable to cure that have also vanished so moving over to i386. I run current on both versions. Sean