Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 16:14:12 +0400 From: Dmitry Mityugov <dmitry.mityugov@gmail.com> To: dick hoogendijk <dick@nagual.st> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: what to do? amd64 - i386 Message-ID: <b7052e1e05080105142451ee27@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20050801140238.00ef9f11.dick@nagual.st> References: <20050731191241.3ca8846e.dick@nagual.st> <42ED0C79.5090103@datacomm.ch> <20050731204733.271c4f53.dick@nagual.st> <n6wtn666t4.tn6@mail.opusnet.com> <20050801140238.00ef9f11.dick@nagual.st>
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On 8/1/05, dick hoogendijk <dick@nagual.st> wrote: > On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 13:48:07 -0700 > garys@opusnet.com (Gary W. Swearingen) wrote: > > dick hoogendijk <dick@nagual.st> writes: > > > Any ideas about _WHAT_ does not work? Do you have examples? > > > "If I can't live without them, then.." ;-)) > > I forget, but too many for me. Found somebody with Google that got > > several "broken" things running, but he didn't say how. > > > > I had a few problems with base-system stuff but probably could have > > lived with that. (Eg, I had to use older ncr instead of sym.) The > > problems are with the ports, so waiting for 6.x won't help. >=20 > I keep on wondering what will be best for this new amd64 machine. > Today I saw all KDE packages were anewed. I have a fbsd-4.11-stable > machine that has KDE running. My other machines have 5.4, so I cannot > build the 4.11 packages on one of those (faster) machines. >=20 > And then there's this dicussion on the speed of 5.4 <-> 4.11 (the > latter is said to be faster). Maybe it's just to early to make the > switch to 5.x if all options needed are supported in 4.11-stable. >=20 > If I install the latter on the new amd64 machine (dump /restore) I will > have a very fast machine (i386) which can build the packages for the > main server too. >=20 > HOW LONG will FreeBSD-4.11 be supported ?? It's at http://www.freebsd.org/security/ (estimated EOL - 31 Jan 2007. It's interesting that estimated EOL for 5.4 mentioned on the same page is earlier than that). --=20 Dmitry Mityugov, St. Petersburg, Russia I ignore all messages with confidentiality statements "We live less by imagination than despite it" - Rockwell Kent, "N by E"
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