i386 vs amd64

[Rod Person]

On Wed, 28 Nov 2012 19:25:59 +0100
Polytropon <freebsd at edvax.de> wrote:

> On Wed, 28 Nov 2012 12:53:26 -0500, mike miskulin wrote:
> > But I guess the basic question remains - are there any
> > considerations in regards ports, linux emulation, etc that would
> > sway me to remain i386?
> 
> The only problem might be if you want to use wine. As it has
> been said, there are binary packages (wine_amd64, if I remember
> correctly), but the rest of the system should run good on
> amd64 as it did on i386.
> 
> Sidenote: I switched back from 8.2/amd64 to 8.2/i386 because
> of three reasons (in fact, two reasons and one justification):
> I had problems with wine, problems with nVidia's driver (plus
> a faulty GPU), and I only have 2 GB RAM. Anywhere else, I have
> not experienced problems with amd64.
> 
> 

The nvidia driver works fine now.

Linux emulation is only 32 bit though.

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