i386 vs amd64

[Fleuriot Damien]

On Nov 28, 2012, at 6:36 PM, mike miskulin <birdfund at yahoo.com> wrote:

> About to build a replacement system for an older i386 setup.   A few
> years ago I had tried the amd64 port on it and found it was frustrating
> as things that just worked on i386 did not on amd64. IIRC ports were 
> large annoyance too.
> 
> Now I have a new system with 8GB, etc,etc and wonder if I am best off to
> stick with i386 and PAE or is the amd64 version finally on a par or
> close enough that I would not likely have many issues like in the past?
> 
> Thanks for your thoughts/(recent) experiences.


What port was that ?

I've never had a *single* problem due to using amd64 over i386.

From a professional point of view, we're using over 60 amd64 fbsd 8.0 8.1 8.2 and 8.3 boxes at work and they work just fine.


I for one can recommend the 64 bits version.