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Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.0: which distribution
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On Tue, 2 Dec 2008, Ebbe Hjorth wrote:

> 2008/12/2 Pieter Donche <Pieter.Donche@ua.ac.be>
> 	On Tue, 2 Dec 2008, Ebbe Hjorth wrote:
> 		Hi,
> 		All new XEON cpus are 64-bit spo use the 64 bit freebsd version.
> I never googled it before, but 2 sec gave me
> http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.0R/hardware.html#PROC-AMD64
>
> So use the amd64 ;)

Is the amd64 distribution mature enough, as compared to the i386?
Aren't there any problems to be expected to arrive, months after
initial install and way in the production usage ??