Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 16:07:27 -0400 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: "Ergosky" <powergo13@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: processor concern Message-ID: <20090706160727.4b83e048.wmoran@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <BAY121-DS329F49F10FFE4DB9FE4C6BA2B0@phx.gbl> References: <BAY121-DS329F49F10FFE4DB9FE4C6BA2B0@phx.gbl>
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In response to "Ergosky" <powergo13@hotmail.com>: > Hi. I want to download and start using FreeBSD but I've investigated about the differences between the processors architecture. My processor has a i686 architecture but there just seems to be a i386 full-arquitecture supported by the OS. I want to know if there's a distribution optimized for my processor's architecture to take full advantage of it's performance. Thanks in advance for your response. There is not such thing as i686 architecture. I assume you mean that you have an i686 processor, which is either i386 or amd64 architecture, depending on how the OS decides to use it. For a desktop system, you probably want to use i386. For a server, amd64 is probably better. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/
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