Why Are You NOT Using FreeBSD ?

Brian brian at brianwhalen.net
Sat Jun 2 01:18:36 UTC 2012


On 6/1/2012 5:14 PM, Dave Hayes wrote:
> Lars Engels<lars.engels at 0x20.net>  writes:
>> I guess he made his experiences with that some years ago when support
>> for amd64 in the ports was not very mature. But this has changed since
>> then, apart from a few ports almost all of them should work on amd64
>> without problems.
> I can vouch for this. I have several production and two development
> amd64 machines. I've yet to have a problem with a port because of the
> architecture.
Early in the 7.x timeframe I had this experience; not recently. Back 
then I installed i386 on a 64 bit AM2 proc equipped machine after seeing 
funny port compile errors in amd64 that went away with i386.

Brian


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