From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 12 16:12:37 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C89DB16A41C for ; Tue, 12 Jul 2005 16:12:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mark@mkproductions.org) Received: from ylpvm15.prodigy.net (ylpvm15-ext.prodigy.net [207.115.57.46]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6969343D49 for ; Tue, 12 Jul 2005 16:12:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mark@mkproductions.org) Received: from pimout6-ext.prodigy.net (pimout6-int.prodigy.net [207.115.4.22]) by ylpvm15.prodigy.net (8.12.10 outbound/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j6CGCpfM007393 for ; Tue, 12 Jul 2005 12:12:52 -0400 X-ORBL: [68.90.147.237] Received: from [192.168.1.45] (adsl-68-90-147-237.dsl.spfdmo.swbell.net [68.90.147.237]) by pimout6-ext.prodigy.net (8.13.4 outbound domainkey aix/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j6CGCRJQ527216 for ; Tue, 12 Jul 2005 12:12:32 -0400 Message-ID: <42D3F9C2.4090802@mkproductions.org> Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 12:11:30 -0500 From: Mark Kane User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050620) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: FreeBSD on AMD64 3000+ - amd64 or i386 version of FreeBSD? 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: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 16:12:37 -0000 Hi everyone. I have decided to ditch Windows XP completely when my motherboard comes back from it's RMA. I have a few questions about the different FreeBSD versions. 1) I have an AMD64 3000+ processor. I've been reading some things around the Internet about ports and other software not compiling properly with the amd64 version of FreeBSD. Most of the things I've read about this have been from 2004 or even late 2003, so I'm wondering how things have progressed since then. Are there still many ports or software that don't compile properly? Is there a list somewhere of known ports not to work on the amd64 version? Here is a short list of main things I will use this PC for: IRC (X-Chat, maybe irssi) Web Browsing (Mozilla Firefox) Media playing (XMMS/VLC/mplayer) Email (Mozilla Thunderbird) Audio Streaming/Recording (streamTranscoder, streamripper, sc_trans maybe) BitTorrent (Azureus) Audio/Video Encoding (lame, oggenc, various video encoding tools) Basically I'm wondering opinions on either the i386 or amd64 version of FreeBSD for my hardware for FreeBSD 5.4. Which works better? For what reasons? Are there any other caveats? 2) Will my hardware work properly with the amd64 version? I see my motherboard (Giga-Byte GA-K8NS Pro) is listed as "Functional" on the FreeBSD amd64 motherboard page (http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/amd64/motherboards.html). My other hardware includes: Sound Blaster Augidy 2 Platinum GeForce FX5600 (MSI) TDK VeloCD 40x12x48 CD Burner Sony DRU500A DVD Burner 3) I know of a couple applications that don't build on the amd64 such as linux-firefox and Azureus. Does anyone have any info on when there might be versions compatible with the amd64, or if there is any other software like them that would work with the amd64 version (main concern is flash on websites)? Thanks very much in advance for your opinions! -Mark