Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 14:37:16 +0200 From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.org> To: Bert JW Regeer <xistence@0x58.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: i386 with PAE or AMD64 on PowerEdge with 4G RAM Message-ID: <200706221237.l5MCbGKb097211@fire.js.berklix.net> In-Reply-To: <C7C1F305-7E4D-4FA5-BA29-6F0538C15BEB@0x58.com> References: <4676BAF0.4030703@gmail.com> <20070618180813.GA13003@eos.sc1.parodius.com> <322073cc0706181415o17ecd532i971d8bdf5ea1dafd@mail.gmail.com> <20070618221022.GA17952@eos.sc1.parodius.com> <868xadj651.fsf@dwp.des.no> <200706220124.l5M1Otob089313@fire.js.berklix.net> <C7C1F305-7E4D-4FA5-BA29-6F0538C15BEB@0x58.com>
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Bert JW Regeer wrote: > --Apple-Mail-2-183841032 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset=US-ASCII; > delsp=yes; > format=flowed > On Jun 21, 2007, at 6:24 PM, Julian H. Stacey wrote: You broke the header, sending 2 seperate mails with same content, so I've copied the reply I sent to what I first saw as your private mail: > > A while back I reverted my AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+ > > (2010.06-MHz 686-class CPU) from 64 to 32 bit, 'cos of bad ports. > > ls /var/db/pkg | wc -l # 536 Not that I use them all, they just > > accumulate. FreeBSD is as solid as damp cement on many old laptops > > ( http://berklix.org/~jhs/hardware/laptops/ ) ie doesn't install > > beyond > > 4.11. No time for ports pain as well as base install failures. > > Eh? I would like to contest this statement. I own several old > Thinkpads, an Toshiba Portege and NONE of them have had any problems > what so ever. My Toshiba is running -CURRENT without any issues what > so ever. Damp cement? WTH? 5 out of 6 of mine have not wanted to go beyond 4.11 : PCMCIA, PLIP etc Just one ruuns 6.2. FreeBSD 5 & 6 have been a nightmare of more functionality at expense of breaking machines. 4.11 actually installs & runs see http://berklix.org/~jhs/hardware/laptops/ -- Julian Stacey. Munich Computer Consultant, BSD Unix C Linux. http://berklix.com HTML mail unseen. Ihr Rauch=mein allergischer Kopfschmerz. Dump cigs 4 snuff.
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