Second attempt at FreeBSD-11.0-RELEASE-i386, Xorg, and Xfce graphical desktop

Mike Clarke jmc-freebsd2 at milibyte.co.uk
Tue Jan 17 09:45:35 UTC 2017


On Mon, 16 Jan 2017 19:16:59 -0800
David Christensen <dpchrist at holgerdanske.com> wrote:

> Therefore, I have been evaluating various BSD distributions over the 
> past several weeks using a computer with an Intel DQ67SW motherboard, 
> i7-2600S CPU, 8 GB RAM, and 16 GB SATA SSD:

[snip]

> So, I am making a second attempt at FreeBSD using:
> 
> FreeBSD-11.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick.img

Though not directly relevant to your question the i386 image is
a 32 bit system so you'd get better performance if you installed
FreeBSD-11.0-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img instead to take full advantage
of your 64 bit processor and all 8GB of your RAM.

-- 
Mike Clarke


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