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Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2012 18:45:53 +0700
From: Erich Dollansky <erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com>
To: Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: switching from i386 to amd64
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Hi,

On Sun, 16 Dec 2012 06:00:51 -0500
Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> 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 did the switch 2010 and missed nothing but wine.

Ok, flash is not realy working for me but I also do not miss it.

Erich