Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 23:05:38 +0200 From: Jorn Argelo <jorn@wcborstel.nl> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: jam man <jam_man@sbcglobal.net> Subject: [Half OT]Re: AMD64 support: FreeBSD v.s. Gentoo Message-ID: <200407262305.39026.jorn@wcborstel.nl> In-Reply-To: <20040726184115.78452.qmail@web81407.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040726184115.78452.qmail@web81407.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Monday 26 July 2004 20:41, jam man wrote: > --- Bj=F6rn_Lindstr=F6m <bkhl@elektrubadur.se> wrote: > > Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@tensor.3miasto.net> writes: > > >> Does Gentoo or FreeBSD have better support for > > > > the > > > > >> AMD64 architecture at this point? > > > > > > what is gentoo? > > > > > > is it some new OS or linux distro? > > > > It's a Linux distribution, so I assume the question > > was meant to be: > > > > "Does Linux or FreeBSD for the AMD64 architecture at > > this point?" > > It doesn't really matter...yes gentoo is a linux > distro. and its the only linux distro I would consider > with the AMD64 architecture. I was looking to see if > anyone here has used (or has knowledge of) both AMD64 > OSes' support and functionality for x86-64 > applications. As a matter of fact, I just got Gentoo up and running next to my Windows=20 partition on my AMD64. There isn't much difference between the two. At leas= t,=20 when building everything from scratch. I got no experience with packages or= =20 anything. Gentoo is just a tad harder to get up and running then FreeBSD is= ,=20 but shouldn't be too much of a problem if you follow the documentation=20 provided at Gentoo's site.=20 One interesting point for desktop users is that Gentoo automatically compil= es=20 X.org as a dependency of KDE rather then XFree86. And I must say, my TFT is= =20 quite sharper then it was with XFree86. Further some minor things are added= =20 to the standard KDE setup, but they aren't worth mentioning. One thing I am= =20 missing is that you have an overview of what you can compile into KDE. Gent= oo=20 just compiles the base KDE with a few extras and further you'll have to=20 continue to compile the other KDE things from the portage (same thing as th= e=20 ports-tree) But, on-topic, it's still a matter of preferences and what you're experienc= ed=20 with. There are no complete new features or anything. It's still just FreeB= SD=20 or Gentoo, but the OS just talks 64-bit rather then 32-bit. As for the main= =20 question, Gentoo or Mandrake or whatever distribution is all the same when= =20 looking at AMD64 support and performance, as long as you're using the same= =20 kernel. Cheers, Jorn
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