From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 1 12:07:48 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BAC816A47C for ; Wed, 1 Nov 2006 12:07:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from petefrench@ticketswitch.com) Received: from mail.ticketswitch.com (mail.ticketswitch.com [194.200.93.188]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 999F843D6E for ; Wed, 1 Nov 2006 12:07:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from petefrench@ticketswitch.com) Received: from [172.16.1.6] (helo=dilbert.firstcallgroup.co.uk) by mail.ticketswitch.com with esmtp (Exim 4.60 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1GfEsb-000Dzq-Id; Wed, 01 Nov 2006 12:07:37 +0000 Received: from petefrench by dilbert.firstcallgroup.co.uk with local (Exim 4.61 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1GfEsX-0006pv-8p; Wed, 01 Nov 2006 12:07:33 +0000 To: freebsd@mail.gbch.net, peterjeremy@optushome.com.au In-Reply-To: <20061101090608.GC849@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> Message-Id: From: Pete French Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 12:07:33 +0000 Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 6.x from i386 to amd64 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 12:07:48 -0000 > This doesn't tally with my experiences. I've had an amd64 laptop Me neither - but then I think this is a large case of 'your mileage may vary', as it entirely depends on what you are doing. I did find, like the original poster, that a number of language ports didn't work properly when I first tried it - but they wenr't critical for me so I jst found something else to play with. As a basic desktop system running X, firefox and thunderbird it works fine. As a server ruunning samba and apache it also works fine. but if you want to do slightly more obscure things with it then you can come I cropper (I ran up against the libffi issue too, and abandonned amd64 for about a year). If the stuff you want to run works properly under amd64 then it's preferable to i386 - but that depends on you knowing what you want to run. For a general purpose desktop I have no idea what interesting tipbit I might come across on the net and be curious about running so I stick with i386. For production machines and servers when I know exactly what software I am going to run forvever (more or less) then I am switching them all over to amd4. > (I'll also admit that I maintain some freeware software that is not > 64-bit clean - but it started life on a PDP-11 and I've got more So did BSD :-) -pete.