From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 27 22:49:52 2010 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 CC88E1065679 for ; Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:49:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from asmtpout023.mac.com (asmtpout023.mac.com [17.148.16.98]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B70408FC08 for ; Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:49:52 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Received: from cswiger1.apple.com ([17.209.4.71]) by asmtp023.mac.com (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-8.01 (built Dec 16 2008; 32bit)) with ESMTPSA id <0KWX00L5SGQK6V80@asmtp023.mac.com> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:49:33 -0800 (PST) X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=5.0.0-0908210000 definitions=main-1001270200 From: Chuck Swiger In-reply-to: Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:49:32 -0800 Message-id: <83E26D74-56FF-4B60-B675-7AC43D7540CB@mac.com> References: To: Iv Ray X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1077) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Opteron 1212 w/ 4 GB RAM 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: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:49:52 -0000 Hi-- On Jan 27, 2010, at 1:49 PM, Iv Ray wrote: > If we are more interested in stability than in features and performance - > > a) Is FreeBSD 8.0 the right for us, or shall we rather go for FreeBSD 7.x? Pretty much by definition, the stability of a .x release is better than that of a .0 release. That said, I haven't heard of major issues with 8.0, so either is likely to be fine. > b) Is i386 or amd64 the right way? For a machine with 4GB of RAM, amd64 is likely to be a better choice. Regards, -- -Chuck