From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 22 21:13:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from clyde.goodleaf.net (piscator.seanet.com [199.181.165.218]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2F0E37B757 for ; Sat, 22 Jul 2000 21:13:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from goodleaf@goodleaf.net) Received: from clyde.goodleaf.net (clyde.goodleaf.net [192.168.0.2]) by clyde.goodleaf.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA04379; Sat, 22 Jul 2000 21:28:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from goodleaf@goodleaf.net) Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2000 21:28:33 -0700 (PDT) From: "J. Goodleaf" To: Shane Hagan Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AMD processor's? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I know of several people who run FreeBSD on both K-6 and K7 processors. I don't know how great the performance is; it seems to me that in order to take full effect of especially the K7's advances over the P6 core, we'd need specific compiler optimizations for them. I am currently unaware of any such. Still, I'm sure FBSD would run on them reasonably well. (The motherboard is probably more important here than the processor.) It may not extract all the performance the processor is capable of, but I feel certain that Windoze won't either. It would probably be worse. I'm sorry I can't be more specific about Athlon or K-6 hardware. You may want to search the mail archives at www.freebsd.org. I know there have been discussions on this subject. As to the Power Pack, I'd love to tell you to buy it. Some of your money would trickle back to the wonderful FBSD developers to whom we owe so much. However, I think if you're really a newby, you're better off reading the online handbook and installing FreeBSD via FTP. If your net connection is too slow for that, then my second rec. would be to buy the printed form of the FBSD handbook, which comes with 4.0 CDs. This gives you a chance to look things over without quite spending the $100 for the PowerPack. There's also Greg Lehey's Complete FreeBSD, which also comes with CDs. Both cost $50ish I think. I don't know exactly what's in the PowerPack, but I feel reasonably sure that you can acquire it after you've started on the road to BSD mastery without dropping the cash. By the way, don't bother to wait for the next version. Once you've got FBSD installed, you can use the CVSup system (explained in Lehey's book and the Handbook) to get the new versions as often as you like for free. Just download version 4, or buy it in a jewel case or purchase it with a book. The online handbook can also be found at www.freebsd.org Take a look at www.freebsddiary.org as well. -J =============================== John Goodleaf goodleaf@goodleaf.net PGP key: finger goodleaf@clyde.goodleaf.net =============================== On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Shane Hagan wrote: > Can I run free BSD on an AMD k-7 processor? Or for that matter can I run it > on a K-6 2,3 500Mhz processor? I am thinking of purchasing the Free BSD > Power Pack for $99.95. Is this a good deal? Also they say there comming out > with power pack 4.1 in august 2000. Should I wait for that? I am just a > newbie so these questions may seem lame to you. I am kind of jumping into > this. I am currently running Windows 2000 pro and Win NT 4.0 at home and at > work. I keep hearing how good Free BSD is and how fast and stable it is. > Does it have GUI or would I be better off without the GUI? What do you > think of NOvell? > > > > Thank you for your time. > > Shane > ________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message