Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 19:46:44 +0000 From: RW <list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: foobarred installation? Message-ID: <200512181946.45815.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> In-Reply-To: <43A53747.80706@thingy.apana.org.au> References: <20051215134815.GA33024@peach> <200512180418.26053.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> <43A53747.80706@thingy.apana.org.au>
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On Sunday 18 December 2005 10:17, David Gerard wrote: > RW wrote: > > From what I've read I wouldn't recommend amd64 for a desktop, as two many > > things are broken, for example 3-d support for your nvidia card. > > That's a pity ... I was thinking in terms of an uber-l33t dual-AMD64 > beast machine running FreeBSD 6 (or maybe 7 by the time I get around to > it) for my next desktop. > > (Not that I ever sit at my desktop any more, and am about to repurpose > my FBSD 5 desktop as FBSD 6 and very much a household *server*.) > > Is there a list or project page on precisely what needs fixing on amd64? > > (I could always run Ubuntu, but I have my laptop for that ...) What's wrong with running i386? Aside from a limited number of activities, such as OGG encoding, there's not much difference in performance.
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