Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 02:36:20 -0700 From: Sean Chittenden <sean@chittenden.org> To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Complaints regarding amd64 and FreeBSD 5.X... Message-ID: <FEEF8C67-24D6-11D9-BC9B-000A95C705DC@chittenden.org>
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I just installed 5.3-RC1 and things went beautifully. sysinstall is rather obnoxious when fdisk'ing a 1.5TB drive/array with that popup message (need to set a static variable so that it only pops it up once per session instead of after every keystroke). Anyway, no matter how large the build is (world is done in under 30min now), I can't walk away for hours at a time and retain a sense of satisfaction that the computer is doing something while I'm away. By the time I return, the machine is idle. In many cases, it's idle by the time I stand up. Going from no ports installed to a completed PostgreSQL install takes less than 3 minutes. Thanks for nothing. I needed a guilt free trip to the bathroom or the vending machine. Other complaints include: *) needing to turn off quick boot that way I have a chance of pushing delete in time so I can enter the bios *) getting frustrated with writing down and looking at 64bit addresses. "No one needs more than 4GB of RAM in a server anyway." *) an admin at my data center was sufficiently impressed with how everything "just worked" for amd64 on FreeBSD, whereas Linux 2.6 was a struggle to compile and still doesn't work correctly. I lost my freshly burnt 5.3-RC1 disk as a result of this group's competence. Since the liability for said competence sits squarely on the shoulders of this group, where can I write to get my $0.50 refunded? One used to get milage out of the "working hard, or hardly working" addage. Now I can't help but dream of the latter and the freedom one had to do other things while something compiled over night. Exceedingly pleased, Seanhome | help
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