From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 26 21:05:49 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56AB516A4CE for ; Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:05:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: from www.wcborstel.nl (wcborstel.demon.nl [82.161.134.53]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C35543D41 for ; Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:05:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jorn@wcborstel.nl) Received: from localhost (localhost.chello.nl [127.0.0.1]) by www.wcborstel.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AF6F8120; Mon, 26 Jul 2004 23:06:56 +0200 (CEST) Received: from www.wcborstel.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (www.wcborstel.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 76684-05; Mon, 26 Jul 2004 23:06:55 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.2.110] (unknown [192.168.2.110]) by www.wcborstel.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2DDA80AF; Mon, 26 Jul 2004 23:06:55 +0200 (CEST) From: Jorn Argelo To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 23:05:38 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <20040726184115.78452.qmail@web81407.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20040726184115.78452.qmail@web81407.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200407262305.39026.jorn@wcborstel.nl> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at mail.domain.tld cc: jam man Subject: [Half OT]Re: AMD64 support: FreeBSD v.s. Gentoo X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:05:49 -0000 On Monday 26 July 2004 20:41, jam man wrote: > --- Bj=F6rn_Lindstr=F6m wrote: > > Wojciech Puchar 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