From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 16 11:35:51 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A8D6EAE for ; Sun, 16 Dec 2012 11:35:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jnagyjr1978@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ye0-f182.google.com (mail-ye0-f182.google.com [209.85.213.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E19A58FC13 for ; Sun, 16 Dec 2012 11:35:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ye0-f182.google.com with SMTP id q5so994642yen.13 for ; Sun, 16 Dec 2012 03:35:49 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=kivaeREI/ZMg8Iiw+nQbw8milyB1BhON2OH6fAKNpks=; b=NsBBZP3FPHop0YfpEZDxXvSPehoNVRuRgkmgLRWn4o2GDf1YClgz3V3j2f5ZYuN/Tk iJ0aje6d0WAZVCdjQN0GkDkiPzkI9xQqUCwLY9KEP90fvDz51oFFe7L8sJx+GSObT7El bGU1iwTWWTVlzlwhH02eA2ECvp953dZMB439NRn1p2jsd/2BDpUXN9Q+iNDbBQjwXne9 RQ5JdGfGZWTb3loIXHupYDtmJDXrurbBhRQBy+iI02gXCIpzu23tviAX+h67CxrrYOEo os9wlXTn+JVNUTe3VC1rq64EPesIhkAG//xUZh3T+gNWeEeoDbSgA46c5IjOO/UvWqn7 LzQg== Received: by 10.236.118.195 with SMTP id l43mr3661253yhh.58.1355657749859; Sun, 16 Dec 2012 03:35:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.1.33] (vid-196.dhcp.grp10.tnmmrl.infoave.net. [204.116.254.196]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id i26sm10098108yhc.10.2012.12.16.03.35.46 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 16 Dec 2012 03:35:49 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <50CDB210.7000306@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2012 05:35:44 -0600 From: "Joseph A. Nagy, Jr" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Thunderbird/17.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: switching from i386 to amd64 References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2012 11:35:51 -0000 On 12/16/12 05:00, Aryeh Friedman wrote: > I have been using i386 (-STABLE) for years now and was wondering if > switching to amd64 finally makes sense (i.e. are enough ports working > on it now [xfrce4, firefox, libreoffice, openjdk-6, tomcat, mysql, > apache22, flash, cups, devel/aegis, devel/cook, devel/fhist, > virtualbox-ose, nvidia-kmod are the minimal ones I need]) the main > reason for asking is PAE seems to be broken now and virtualbox-ose > refuses to let me install 64 bit OS's like Win 8. I'm running amd64 and it seems rock-solid and well supported. -- Yours in Christ, Joseph A Nagy Jr "Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge, But he who hates correction is stupid." -- Proverbs 12:1 Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. Original content CopyFree (F) under the OWL http://owl.apotheon.org