On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 14:45 +0200, Ivan Voras wrote: > Harald Servat wrote: > > > My first issue is, I'm currently working with Linux and I'm planning to > > switch to FreeBSD 7.1, but I don't know if switch to 32 or 64 bit (i.e., > > i386 or amd64). If I switch to the 32 bit version, which is the memory limit > > > On a server, switch to 64 bit. > > On a desktop machime, go with 32-bit. You will only be able to address > slightly over 3 GB no matter which graphics card you use but on the > other hand you'll have better supported drivers and 3rd party software.
All of our drm drivers are safe on amd64. The only thing you get from 32bit is the ability to run the Nvidia blob. If you are trying to do emmulated things like play linux/windows games, then 32bit might be needed, but for normal use graphics isn't a reason not to use amd64. FreeBSD balrog.2hip.net 8.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT #13 r190402M: Tue Mar 24 22:41:47 CDT 2009 rnol...@balrog.2hip.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/BALROG amd64 robert. -- Robert Noland <rnol...@freebsd.org> FreeBSD
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