Nikolas Britton wrote:
I see, do the Intel EMT-64 chips use the amd64 release too? And what
did he mean by "certain programs being unavalable for amd64", what are
the major ones?
There seems to be an IA-64 which I guess is Intel. Only buy AMD chips
myself, so I'm a bit hazy on that. I'm sure freebsd.org has the answer
somewhere :-)
Major programs include java, and I think, Linux 32-bit compatibility.
You can see a complete list of ports which fail to build at
http://pointyhat.freebsd.org/ e.g. the ones not building under 5-STABLE
for AMD64 are in
http://pointyhat.freebsd.org/errorlogs/amd64-5-failure.html. Of course,
some of those packages just fail to build anywhere! But lack of java
and nvidia are big stumblers for many who might otherwise try 64-bit on
a desktop. For a pure server, given the time, I'd certainly experiment
with 64-bit. Unfortunately, all "my" pure servers run Linux - not
through choice :-(
You described 64-bit chips as bleeding edge, but I really don't think
they are any more. Dual cores may be bleeding edge and SLI may be
bleeding edge, but bog standard 64-bit processors running a 32-bit OS
are dead common and usually seem to work. No doubt there are some
chipsets/motherboards that are worse than others, but that's the same
for any architecture. Buying anything to run FreeBSD well has always
been a matter of checking the hardware lists carefully and backing that
up with google. 8 months ago I had no trouble finding an AMD 939 64 bit
motherboard that would work well with FreeBSD.
--Alex
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