From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 14 21:39:03 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2A4E106564A for ; Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:39:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mihai.dontu@gmail.com) Received: from mail.bitdefender.com (mail.bitdefender.com [91.199.104.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 280B28FC1C for ; Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:39:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 17955 invoked from network); 14 Feb 2012 23:12:20 +0200 Comment: DomainKeys? See http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys X-BitDefender-Spam: No (0) X-BitDefender-SpamStamp: v1, build 2.11.3.13847, SQMD Hits: none, rbl score: 0(0), apm score: 500, ApmFlags: [NN_NO_LINK_NMD], SQMD: 3eb144a7a86ed690efa8ea36c94d9fc4.fuzzy.fzrbl.org, total: 0(775) X-BitDefender-Scanner: Clean, Agent: BitDefender qmail 3.1.0 on elfie.dsd.hq, sigver: 7.41009 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=default; d=gmail.com; b=sOOuBIRHDZbdbYYTREe5nGagcrsYvADDSzz5mDx2XuXs1+M8HEZniX6zOxI1gZwADL/YsrlfXWtF4W2HqLzk0cjtsBOYZUAijN44qOYbTKaol9sM1CGDxta9AC0w6B7Ya3G8lEGNIGBqjlLUS/+seTDL6B3QEnAokX/11fwVKcE= ; Received: from mdontu-l.dsd.ro (mdontu@bitdefender.com@10.10.14.115) by mail.bitdefender.com with SMTP; 14 Feb 2012 23:12:20 +0200 Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 23:12:20 +0200 From: Mihai =?UTF-8?B?RG9uyJt1?= To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20120214231220.0b74f4f8@mdontu-l.dsd.ro> In-Reply-To: <4F3ABA3C.5090908@hargray.com> References: <4F3ABA3C.5090908@hargray.com> Organization: Home Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: Processor question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:39:03 -0000 On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 14:47:08 -0500 Mike Dockery wrote: > Greetings, >=20 > I have been a user of Linux since 1994, but most of the linux distros=20 > seem to be getting away from freedom... which is why I chose it in > the first place. They seem intent on forcing things that do not work > well (like pulseaudio and nouveau) on everyone. Freedom of choice is > always best. >=20 Far be it for me to stop you from adventuring into the FreeBSD world, I encourage you actually. :-) However, note that you always had and will have the freedom of choice. One Linux distribution might have chosen to go the pulseaudio way (binary-only ones usually do), but FreeBSD inspired ones, with ports-like features, offer you the choice to go plain ALSA or even OSS (Crux, Gentoo etc.). In what concerns nouveau, I'm afraid there's no running away from it. Reverse engineering close source drivers for modern GPU-s is an incredibly hard task. FreeBSD will likely get nouveau when KMS gets finished (soon I hear?). Until then, the good old nVidia blob will do. So instead of seeing FreeBSD as a place of retreat, see it as an adventure! :-) > My question is: Should I try the amd64 version of FreeBSD with my > Intel Core i7-2600 processor or should I use the i386? >=20 Definitely amd64. > I hope to give FreeBSD a try later this month. >=20 --=20 Mihai Don=C8=9Bu