From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 1 12:14:14 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6968F16A41F for ; Mon, 1 Aug 2005 12:14:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dmitry.mityugov@gmail.com) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.195]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDD1F43D45 for ; Mon, 1 Aug 2005 12:14:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dmitry.mityugov@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i5so991321wra for ; Mon, 01 Aug 2005 05:14:13 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=LjiRHNUinlACcMLnf1uql1txhS8Hwz/HjFlotKZm5BvBZjM/tNwTFDCJW85miJS/7Fn0uXEJ+rHRqPcse9PcvaWM8qayYVp4ILKTa6lYEEQad4Kz3L+fObWgJgwjtZf2TcVMsq+nixHG7TEPsM47CKCYlHwogignQKCLZ1zZ0VY= Received: by 10.54.39.79 with SMTP id m79mr2801649wrm; Mon, 01 Aug 2005 05:14:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.56.33 with HTTP; Mon, 1 Aug 2005 05:14:12 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 16:14:12 +0400 From: Dmitry Mityugov To: dick hoogendijk In-Reply-To: <20050801140238.00ef9f11.dick@nagual.st> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <20050731191241.3ca8846e.dick@nagual.st> <42ED0C79.5090103@datacomm.ch> <20050731204733.271c4f53.dick@nagual.st> <20050801140238.00ef9f11.dick@nagual.st> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: what to do? amd64 - i386 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Dmitry Mityugov List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2005 12:14:14 -0000 On 8/1/05, dick hoogendijk wrote: > On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 13:48:07 -0700 > garys@opusnet.com (Gary W. Swearingen) wrote: > > dick hoogendijk writes: > > > Any ideas about _WHAT_ does not work? Do you have examples? > > > "If I can't live without them, then.." ;-)) > > I forget, but too many for me. Found somebody with Google that got > > several "broken" things running, but he didn't say how. > > > > I had a few problems with base-system stuff but probably could have > > lived with that. (Eg, I had to use older ncr instead of sym.) The > > problems are with the ports, so waiting for 6.x won't help. >=20 > I keep on wondering what will be best for this new amd64 machine. > Today I saw all KDE packages were anewed. I have a fbsd-4.11-stable > machine that has KDE running. My other machines have 5.4, so I cannot > build the 4.11 packages on one of those (faster) machines. >=20 > And then there's this dicussion on the speed of 5.4 <-> 4.11 (the > latter is said to be faster). Maybe it's just to early to make the > switch to 5.x if all options needed are supported in 4.11-stable. >=20 > If I install the latter on the new amd64 machine (dump /restore) I will > have a very fast machine (i386) which can build the packages for the > main server too. >=20 > HOW LONG will FreeBSD-4.11 be supported ?? It's at http://www.freebsd.org/security/ (estimated EOL - 31 Jan 2007. It's interesting that estimated EOL for 5.4 mentioned on the same page is earlier than that). --=20 Dmitry Mityugov, St. Petersburg, Russia I ignore all messages with confidentiality statements "We live less by imagination than despite it" - Rockwell Kent, "N by E"