AMD64 vs i386 on a Dual Opteron Box

Andrew P. infofarmer at gmail.com
Wed Oct 12 07:53:10 PDT 2005


On 10/12/05, Nathan Vidican <nvidican at wmptl.com> wrote:
> Thanks, I did not realize that there was an RC1 out for 6.0 already. Any
> ideas how far off 6.0-RELEASE may be? Realistically the O/S has become
> the least important issue on these servers; they're basically ldap/nss
> clients sharing data via samba from UFS file systems... a drop-in
> replacement to an NT fileserver/domain controller.
>
> I'll see what I can do to maybe get 6.0-RC1 running on a desktop in here
> somewhere today... even if just to demo it for myself. I'm running
> Novell's NLD (Novell Linux Desktop; based on Suse Desktop) now on my
> laptop (the machine which I write this email from now)... I'd MUCH
> rather be running FreeBSD, but the videocard has issues, and nVidia
> (bless their hearts) has released binary drivers for FreeBSD, but only
> for FreeBSD/i386... :( - I have emailed, and nagged to get them to
> compile/post for amd64, but to no avail thus far. I would love to have
> FreeBSD on this thing though...
>

The last 6.0-BETA was as stable as it gets in 90%
of cases. We all hope that 6.0-RELEASE is about
10-15 days off. I run 6.0 on desktops and servers
since BETA2 - and I have absolutely no issues
whatsoever. None. Except for unbelievably fast
disk performance. It's wonderful.


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