On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 06:21:40PM -0400, Indigo 23 wrote: > Does anyone think that its worth the hassle? If you do manage to get > it up and running, will you see any noticeable advantages or is it > better to just stick with i386? The only caveat that I can see is a > recompilation of all the ports. Any thoughts?
You don't really _need_ it unless you've got more than four gigs of RAM and are routinely running out of memory on i386. Then again, I installed amd64 instead of i386 because I could. :-) No regrets so far. Some stuff like binary drivers, flash player, is not available on amd64 (not necessarily a bad thing :-). I think i386 has more ports available as packages. Amd 64 will use some more disk space and RAM. Doing a clean reinstall instead of an upgrade will probably less of a hassle. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725)
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