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At 17:35 2006-03-27, Aguiar Magalhaes wrote:
>Hi list,
>
>We=B4ve received a xeon dual processor machine, Intel
>motherboard...
>
>What=B4s the best version&platform for it ?? i386, ia64
>??

Hi, first of all, from what I know ia64 won't=20
work... That release is for the itanium kinda cpus...
You have the choice between amd64 version (it=20
works with processor having the emt64 extensions=20
like the xeon) or the i386 version.

If all you need will be compiled from the ports,=20
I highly recommend the amd64 version...
If you are planning on installing precompiled=20
binairies you'll find that there is no support=20
nowhere for the amd64 version so I recommend to use i386

Hope  this helps