Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 00:26:50 +0200 From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no> To: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Martin Turgeon <turgeon.martin@gmail.com>, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: i386 with PAE or AMD64 on PowerEdge with 4G RAM Message-ID: <868xadj651.fsf@dwp.des.no> In-Reply-To: <20070618221022.GA17952@eos.sc1.parodius.com> (Jeremy Chadwick's message of "Mon\, 18 Jun 2007 15\:10\:22 -0700") References: <4676BAF0.4030703@gmail.com> <20070618180813.GA13003@eos.sc1.parodius.com> <322073cc0706181415o17ecd532i971d8bdf5ea1dafd@mail.gmail.com> <20070618221022.GA17952@eos.sc1.parodius.com>
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Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org> writes: > Like I said, I don't run 64-bit OSes because I prefer compatibility. > Believe me, the instant you run into some quirky problem with either the > kernel or any of its subsystems, or a third-party program (from ports or > otherwise), the first thing you'll be told is "it works for me on i386, > have you tried i386?" Absolute nonsense. FreeBSD is just as solid on amd64 as on i386, and the people who do most of the kernel work in FreeBSD tend to have up-to-date hardware (meaning Athlon64, Opteron, or Core 2). DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no
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