cvs commit: src/sys/amd64/conf GENERIC

[Kevin Oberman]

> Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 11:07:03 -0700 (MST)
> From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp at bsdimp.com>
> Sender: owner-cvs-all at freebsd.org
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> In message: <346a80220612140903meecf42av7383632e8173525 at mail.gmail.com>
>             "Coleman Kane" <zombyfork at gmail.com> writes:
> : Just to let you know, there are still a significant number of amd64
> : single-core laptops that are still sold these days.
> 
> I have one myself.  But I'm considering running FreeBSD/i386 on it
> because of all the issues I've had getting a working OpenOffice on it.
> 
> Warner
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The new release of OOo is SUPPOSED to be 64-bit clean. I have no idea
when 2.1 will be ported to FreeBSD, but I hope it will be soon.

OTOH, I see little reason to run amd64 on most systems which don't have
large memories or some other specific reason to run it. The binaries are
larger and generally performance changes are minimal.
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
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Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
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