From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 27 16:27:45 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 343CB16A420 for ; Fri, 27 Jan 2006 16:27:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ftigeot@aoi.wolfpond.org) Received: from aoi.wolfpond.org (gw.zefyris.com [213.41.131.30]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81BAF43F19 for ; Fri, 27 Jan 2006 16:27:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ftigeot@aoi.wolfpond.org) Received: from aoi.wolfpond.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by aoi.wolfpond.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k0RGROdo029493; Fri, 27 Jan 2006 17:27:24 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ftigeot@aoi.wolfpond.org) Received: (from ftigeot@localhost) by aoi.wolfpond.org (8.13.4/8.13.1/Submit) id k0RGRLd4029492; Fri, 27 Jan 2006 17:27:21 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ftigeot) Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 17:27:21 +0100 From: Francois Tigeot To: Ken Gunderson Message-ID: <20060127162721.GB27084@aoi.wolfpond.org> References: <20060127020350.02abf989.kgunders@teamcool.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060127020350.02abf989.kgunders@teamcool.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org 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 16:27:45 -0000 On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 02:03:50AM -0700, 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? This will depend on your application mix. I have been running a 64-bit desktop for about two years without too much trouble apart from some Windowmaker bugs. For OpenOffice, there is no native version and the FreeBSD/i386 package doesn't run. The Linux/i386 version works like a charm, howewer. > Also that there were some thread a while back that i386 was better > performer if you don't need the extra ram capability. But that was > also in reference to 5.x. I believe it was mainly due to assembly optimized routines in the i386 version versus straight C for amd64. FreeBSD/amd64 should become relatively faster as these are rewritten in assembly again. > What would y'all recommend for a desktop machine? Why don't you try both ? You can partition the machine with a big home directory shared between two different FreeBSD installations... -- Francois Tigeot