Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 12:04:01 +0200 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: Indigo 23 <indigo23@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading to amd64 requires recompilation of ports? Message-ID: <20070617100401.GA48338@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <6f50eac40706161521r2b524263la2385138f67e10bc@mail.gmail.com> References: <6f50eac40706161521r2b524263la2385138f67e10bc@mail.gmail.com>
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--4Ckj6UjgE2iN1+kY Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 06:21:40PM -0400, Indigo 23 wrote: > Does anyone think that its worth the hassle? If you do manage to get > it up and running, will you see any noticeable advantages or is it > better to just stick with i386? The only caveat that I can see is a > recompilation of all the ports. Any thoughts? You don't really _need_ it unless you've got more than four gigs of RAM and are routinely running out of memory on i386. Then again, I installed amd64 instead of i386 because I could. :-) No regrets so far. Some stuff like binary drivers, flash player, is not available on amd64 (not necessarily a bad thing :-). I think i386 has more ports available as packages. Amd 64 will use some more disk space and RAM. Doing a clean reinstall instead of an upgrade will probably less of a hassl= e. Roland --=20 R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) --4Ckj6UjgE2iN1+kY Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGdQcREnfvsMMhpyURAoZ0AJ4o6wWgRTSTfXBn7KcTN9DrUscy6ACfR2aa LwV3s+A9FzsQm7smlldea7M= =wlpy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --4Ckj6UjgE2iN1+kY--
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