Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:12:27 +0100 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: Andrew Reilly <andrew-freebsd@areilly.bpc-users.org> Cc: Vivek Khera <vivek@khera.org>, FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru> Subject: Re: Progress with usability of AMD64 Message-ID: <20071114171227.GA3047@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20071114025903.GA72819@duncan.reilly.home> References: <nospam-1190938946.94875@joker.gbch.net> <69AF611A-3E27-49B9-A81F-033A94D796E4@khera.org> <20070928232008.K89977@woozle.rinet.ru> <20071114025903.GA72819@duncan.reilly.home>
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--17pEHd4RhPHOinZp Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 01:59:03PM +1100, Andrew Reilly wrote: > On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 11:24:41PM +0400, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: > > On Fri, 28 Sep 2007, Vivek Khera wrote: > > VK> My list of software is purely server stuff; I > > VK> don't use any FreeBSD desktops. > >=20 > > It seems to be the key point here. > >=20 > > I'm thinking about giving a try for the following scheme for my develop= ment=20 > > desktop at work: > >=20 > > amd64 machine with servers' ports built inside (postgresql-server, > > apache, etc) with i386 jail with desktop applications (xorg, > > firefox/nspluginwrappers, MUA, you name it...) > >=20 > > ENOTIME so far... >=20 > Utility is definitely a personal variable. I run a FreeBSD-6-stable > workstation at AMD64 and am more or less happy with it, My workstation runs amd64 7.0-BETA2. I'm very happy with it. > but I also have > a MacOS laptop, which I can fall back to for anything that falls out of > the FreeBSD-amd64 capability bucket, like watching the google > Android videos on youtube, There's youtube-dl in ports for downloading youtube videos. You can them watch them with your favorite media player. > Certainly xorg, firefox (and epiphany, which I prefer) and MUA > (thunderbird, evolution, mutt, claws-mail(my pref.)) all work > happily in amd64 mode. The only desktop related things that one hears a lot about are the Flash plugin, and the NVidia binary driver. For me those are things that I can happily live without. I certainly don't miss the annoying Flash ads on the Web! Roland --=20 R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) --17pEHd4RhPHOinZp Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFHOyx7EnfvsMMhpyURAuRqAKCfky0r3ZIjlswZo0aQoIJoKhl/LgCeP+9N 7OdJCrRzYpM2iTSsXnrfjJY= =DJT3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --17pEHd4RhPHOinZp--
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