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Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 03:24:55 +0200
From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.org>
Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Martin Turgeon <turgeon.martin@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: i386 with PAE or AMD64 on PowerEdge with 4G RAM 
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=?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= wrote:
> Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> > Like I said, I don't run 64-bit OSes because I prefer compatibility.
> > Believe me, the instant you run into some quirky problem with either the
> > kernel or any of its subsystems, or a third-party program (from ports or
> > otherwise), the first thing you'll be told is "it works for me on i386,
> > have you tried i386?"
> 
> Absolute nonsense.  FreeBSD is just as solid on amd64 as on i386, and

A while back I reverted my AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+
(2010.06-MHz 686-class CPU) from 64 to 32 bit, 'cos of bad ports.
ls /var/db/pkg | wc -l # 536 Not that I use them all, they just
accumulate.  FreeBSD is as solid as damp cement on many old laptops
( http://berklix.org/~jhs/hardware/laptops/ ) ie doesn't install beyond
4.11.  No time for ports pain as well as base install failures.

-- 
Julian Stacey. Munich Computer Consultant, BSD Unix C Linux. http://berklix.com
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