FreeBSD on AMD64 3000+ - amd64 or i386 version of FreeBSD?

[Kris Kennaway]

On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 12:11:30PM -0500, Mark Kane wrote:
> Hi everyone. I have decided to ditch Windows XP completely when my 
> motherboard comes back from it's RMA. I have a few questions about the 
> different FreeBSD versions.
> 
> 1) I have an AMD64 3000+ processor. I've been reading some things around 
> the Internet about ports and other software not compiling properly with 
> the amd64 version of FreeBSD. Most of the things I've read about this 
> have been from 2004 or even late 2003, so I'm wondering how things have 
> progressed since then. Are there still many ports or software that don't 
> compile properly? Is there a list somewhere of known ports not to work 
> on the amd64 version?

http://pointyhat.freebsd.org; conversely, check ftp://ftp.freebsd.org
for the list of packages that are available.

Kris
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