From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 6 20:07:29 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A906F1065673 for ; Mon, 6 Jul 2009 20:07:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from mail.potentialtech.com (internet.potentialtech.com [66.167.251.6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7ADA18FC18 for ; Mon, 6 Jul 2009 20:07:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from vanquish.ws.pitbpa0.priv.collaborativefusion.com (pr40.pitbpa0.pub.collaborativefusion.com [206.210.89.202]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.potentialtech.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 16091EBC0A; Mon, 6 Jul 2009 16:07:28 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 16:07:27 -0400 From: Bill Moran To: "Ergosky" Message-Id: <20090706160727.4b83e048.wmoran@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.6.0 (GTK+ 2.14.7; i386-portbld-freebsd7.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: processor concern X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2009 20:07:30 -0000 In response to "Ergosky" : > 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/