Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2018 17:13:54 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <matthew@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Which platform should I download for FreeBSD? Message-ID: <35d1fdd4-3aac-7b2b-a778-36c517da7ade@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <daeb616d-cd22-1172-ad5e-cb6527619194@quip.cz> References: <639A96B3-0661-47B9-81A7-1284A6AE9733@icloud.com> <daeb616d-cd22-1172-ad5e-cb6527619194@quip.cz>
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This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) --PtDrXu5RtjT27EGYykWKB08u19WdJvpsg Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="voeJ1sdgUlfcFjlLnjHbV9Es6FwtgB7Fi"; protected-headers="v1" From: Matthew Seaman <matthew@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Message-ID: <35d1fdd4-3aac-7b2b-a778-36c517da7ade@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Which platform should I download for FreeBSD? References: <639A96B3-0661-47B9-81A7-1284A6AE9733@icloud.com> <daeb616d-cd22-1172-ad5e-cb6527619194@quip.cz> In-Reply-To: <daeb616d-cd22-1172-ad5e-cb6527619194@quip.cz> --voeJ1sdgUlfcFjlLnjHbV9Es6FwtgB7Fi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-GB Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 09/09/2018 14:20, Miroslav Lachman wrote: > Jason Lindsey via freebsd-arch wrote on 2018/09/09 01:53: >> I hope you help me, >> >> I own a iMac 64, and do not know if I should download amd64 or arm64 >> platforms to support FreeBSD.=C2=A0 I would appreciate an answer to my= >> question ASAP, in that I currently learning Solaris 10 and other >> versions of BSD software.=C2=A0 I would like to include FreeBSD in my = studies. Solaris 10 is SysV, not BSD. You have to go all the way back to SunOS 4.x for the last BSD variant from Sun. A pedantic distinction I know, but it's what some of us live for. > I don't own any Apple products but AFAIK all modern Apple computers are= > using Intel x86 CPUs. If this is true for your model then you need to > download amd64 version of FreeBSD system. According to Wikipedia (the source of all knowledge....) the iMac G3, G4 or G5 systems were based on PowerPC processors -- - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMac_G3 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMac_G4 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMac_G5 However those were discontinued in 2006 in favour of the Intel based iMac= - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMac_(Intel-based) So, unless the OP has a rather elderly machine, amd64 is the architecture you need. There did use to be some PPC support in FreeBSD, but it never was a Tier-1 architecture, and I think it's basically unsupported if not gone entirely on up-to-date versions of the OS. Cheers, Matthew --voeJ1sdgUlfcFjlLnjHbV9Es6FwtgB7Fi-- --PtDrXu5RtjT27EGYykWKB08u19WdJvpsg Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQKTBAEBCgB9FiEEGfFU7L8RLlBUTj8wAFE/EOCp5OcFAluVRsNfFIAAAAAALgAo aXNzdWVyLWZwckBub3RhdGlvbnMub3BlbnBncC5maWZ0aGhvcnNlbWFuLm5ldDE5 RjE1NEVDQkYxMTJFNTA1NDRFM0YzMDAwNTEzRjEwRTBBOUU0RTcACgkQAFE/EOCp 5Of22Q//RIirQYWOtYmFwzApnxt0mK1jOVY9Y+8bi5g91tVuHz7IObR+L/Sat/YK CoORjVuyU5FbEsLgYc+p+JPHDL4LUU0gDGwjpzS2XCE01rhU8+E777MqHw/i6jrf uG/057heE3YCnKcbwrIPk5eZL70Zf95YwCFA/4yaY2eyWAfBNwa5q96i2JoVpNip uYwXm3JWfzonUHZXzvYtAYhymJMpSxz1IegHOyb6yHTqxgruiFjPAH4GEyELa2Je XhwEzD3d1q9hcwL069MdSx62L/hoe/ZWfoVJT/PguzmZrRHzXqfEmYulUBYflH1w ZLlKSunXnD0ufl3eDjL3jiPyUT2N1/PO0LzhJSccr0S0LOjp6Dkm1chWfJtO0QAv bhtSLNFHL1wd8vIMyP75aFoxB2mw/Dc9pEQf6juXbXds6QwONIzQFj3HJ3Arn8ug SZ2N2SFTX4JuPuS9dQZiB6AkeU+ksDMiZbWyBlmo8aL8kKvdcQO0IdckGzPMPibM lJE90srMvJmqz6GBBm3+hjcI1oa0SK+dYwx84x7dBGWER/djDSgMbdB3MFvYAM2m Di5vBBjqfwdxfqTCYYau/7LLe5STfntbYsF4JAisr3z8vXHPSsYgAuJbBRSTTlML vOiwn0Fau4yWaOg/4gTm6MFowwp60fky4XjiY/CBbB2/9q3+BjA= =EINn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --PtDrXu5RtjT27EGYykWKB08u19WdJvpsg--
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