Which platform should I download for FreeBSD?

[Matthew Seaman]

On 09/09/2018 14:20, Miroslav Lachman wrote:
> Jason Lindsey via freebsd-arch wrote on 2018/09/09 01:53:
>> I hope you help me,
>>
>> I own a iMac 64, and do not know if I should download amd64 or arm64
>> platforms to support FreeBSD.  I would appreciate an answer to my
>> question ASAP, in that I currently learning Solaris 10 and other
>> versions of BSD software.  I would like to include FreeBSD in my studies.

Solaris 10 is SysV, not BSD.  You have to go all the way back to SunOS
4.x for the last BSD variant from Sun.  A pedantic distinction I know,
but it's what some of us live for.

> I don't own any Apple products but AFAIK all modern Apple computers are
> using Intel x86 CPUs. If this is true for your model then you need to
> download amd64 version of FreeBSD system.

According to Wikipedia (the source of all knowledge....) the iMac G3, G4
or G5 systems were based on PowerPC processors --

 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMac_G3
 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMac_G4
 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMac_G5

However those were discontinued in 2006 in favour of the Intel based iMac

 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMac_(Intel-based)

So, unless the OP has a rather elderly machine, amd64 is the
architecture you need.  There did use to be some PPC support in FreeBSD,
but it never was a Tier-1 architecture, and I think it's basically
unsupported if not gone entirely on up-to-date versions of the OS.

	Cheers,

	Matthew



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