Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:17:16 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Pieter Donche <Pieter.Donche@ua.ac.be> Cc: Ebbe Hjorth <ebbe.hjorth@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.0: which distribution Message-ID: <49357BAC.3010602@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.63.0812021347330.9046@hmacs.cmi.ua.ac.be> References: <Pine.GSO.4.63.0812021323380.8329@hmacs.cmi.ua.ac.be> <1bd820d80812020437h5bd7266co67c566b386b8873e@mail.gmail.com> <Pine.GSO.4.63.0812021347330.9046@hmacs.cmi.ua.ac.be>
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Pieter Donche wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Dec 2008, Ebbe Hjorth wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> All new XEON cpus are 64-bit spo use the 64 bit freebsd version.
> So this would point to "ia64" distribution?
> But clicking op www.freebsd.com/where.html - Hardware notes/View
> tells for ia64: Currently supported processors are Itanium and Itanium2
> There nothing about Intel XEON ??
No -- ia64 is the Itanium chip. Use amd64 for Xeons -- it covers all recent
multi-core Intel chips as well as the AMD 64bit processors.
Cheers,
Matthew
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