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On Tuesday 12 May 2009 06:01:13 Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote:
> Am Montag, den 11.05.2009, 19:11 -0400 schrieb Glen Barber:
> > On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 7:04 PM, Wojciech Puchar
> >
> > <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote:
> > >>> yes. FreeBSD/amd64
> > >>
> > >> Or i386.
> > >
> > > if you want limited system - yes
> >
> > If by 'limited' you mean being able to use nVidia drivers, that's not
> > very 'limited' to me.
>
> Please do correct me:
> Only Graphic Cards by nVidia are a problem on amd64, everything else can
> be run via OpenSource drivers (?!)
>
> Greetings
>
> Uli.

Yea, go ahead and use nv (or some other FOSS) driver, so that the hardware 
that you payed more than 100 bux for goes unused.

--
Ghirai.