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Subject: Re: 5.2 and amd64 - good enough for a production server?
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Hi, Joel

> Just making sure I understand everything, before I go to my boss and tell
> him to buy a 4000$ opteron box. =)

I've purchased already :)

> 3) Last but not least - 32-bit compatibility? I know Linux binary
> compatibility, both 32-bit and 64-bit is NOT DONE, but when will it be? Will
> it take a month, half a year or more? Its not a matter of life and death,
> but it would be good to know. And as far as I understand, at this moment I
> cannot also run 32-bit FreeBSD binaries from earlier 5.x releases?

4) and 4.9-RELEASE (i386) doesn't work, hangs while looking for ad0

--maho