From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 16 11:51:13 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 46FDF2EA for ; Sun, 16 Dec 2012 11:51:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com) Received: from nm12.bullet.mail.ukl.yahoo.com (nm12.bullet.mail.ukl.yahoo.com [217.146.183.186]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88DD28FC0A for ; Sun, 16 Dec 2012 11:51:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [217.12.10.83] by nm12.bullet.mail.ukl.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 16 Dec 2012 11:48:40 -0000 Received: from [77.238.184.61] by tm17.bullet.mail.ukl.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 16 Dec 2012 11:48:40 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp130.mail.ukl.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 16 Dec 2012 11:48:40 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=rocketmail.com; s=s1024; t=1355658520; bh=vwpe1pZhc/Mwng6cZMKk+GYzuyspi2owNv0tN8CZ2Ew=; h=X-Yahoo-Newman-Id:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-SMTP:Received:Message-ID:Subject:From:To:Date:In-Reply-To:References:Content-Type:X-Mailer:Mime-Version:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=MgSHoUVL7rBaAr9YX76zjM2g98NFdZ1Sysq4JTlee02Od0klWmDOuXEYdcvbCR+Cc1Kb7nKdZKxWebb+zS0D9IxeH7DPj7OzoVQp0V55PpwFe5Sq0FQ1Y5Zl0hhcsKXqXzExLmd9qfe1U2PiMF32T1q15WD8ABL/GQmLMBD7loM= X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 737573.13593.bm@smtp130.mail.ukl.yahoo.com X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-YMail-OSG: EFoRL0gVM1kJtTdJCWoXSwL.IzV2S4t8Fb_G_hRRHztW8Z0 9gWUlVjQk1Kw3WnVTnS3RAfBEjIS6rdSgqv4Me0fRWZrfXlmJzsdrurmsR3H Yu88fSupNVpbDEdVU.4v6XKuFVfk0.GoyrYXeiBlBgC2.tCThS.zLar6qU7P jFqvpcLwDhYuzSikDPjqPZSvu3ghgYyGErgUK0_AMKTKYY7.z1acei9JGFxf coIZ0zHXW2PhQaB08qJS2j0aRpJKvTQYqAjvc9_nQrnlwjaDT.YhUpRIdqyB 2rOAedOBS.2Kpx1utBf6fZN16loUAqYHl0Ms5Hn.nPFFev1uNqFMjyNb5P7R s6.dFJib_R7cR.sP2wlMnHok_YOhaP7Rlk2FrNKvjFtLunR0HyKi4Xdmy5LD HxjrLZtnokuy8HJJpbZM6OZaTdGONLEClIDnsE4E- X-Yahoo-SMTP: BeMCPs2swBABTJ3kAeEiC_hE0mz8jRexLddJfD8pI2j32fOacjBmXg-- Received: from [85.182.16.242] (ralf.mardorf@85.182.16.242 with login) by smtp130.mail.ukl.yahoo.com with SMTP; 16 Dec 2012 11:48:40 +0000 GMT Message-ID: <1355658520.8256.10.camel@q> Subject: Re: switching from i386 to amd64 From: Ralf Mardorf To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2012 12:48:40 +0100 In-Reply-To: <50CDB210.7000306@gmail.com> References: <50CDB210.7000306@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.6.0-0ubuntu3 Mime-Version: 1.0 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 11:51:13 -0000 On Sun, 2012-12-16 at 05:35 -0600, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr wrote: > I'm running amd64 and it seems rock-solid and well supported. I had a similar question. I wanted to know if there are issues for audio, when using 64 bit and got this reply: "If you do not have a _specific_ requirement for 32 bit, use 64 bit, of course if you have a 64 bit CPU. :-) Specific requirements _could_ be wine and nVidia's proprietary GPU driver, as far as I know." - Polytropon (Btw. thank you Polytropon :) I guess in the web I read something about issues with VBox, but perhaps I'm confusing VBox with wine. I chose 64 bit and will stay with it, even if I should install another version of FreeBSD today. Regards, Ralf