On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 12:07:05PM -0500, Robert Noland wrote: > On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 14:45 +0200, Ivan Voras wrote: > > Harald Servat wrote: > > > > > My first issue is, I'm currently working with Linux and I'm planning to > > > switch to FreeBSD 7.1, but I don't know if switch to 32 or 64 bit (i.e., > > > i386 or amd64). If I switch to the 32 bit version, which is the memory > > > limit > > > > > > On a server, switch to 64 bit. > > > > On a desktop machime, go with 32-bit. You will only be able to address > > slightly over 3 GB no matter which graphics card you use but on the > > other hand you'll have better supported drivers and 3rd party software. > > All of our drm drivers are safe on amd64. The only thing you get from > 32bit is the ability to run the Nvidia blob. If you are trying to do > emmulated things like play linux/windows games, then 32bit might be > needed, but for normal use graphics isn't a reason not to use amd64. In fact, I committed the missed bits required for wine/i386 on amd64, several days ago. We did tested that wine and mplayer+win32 codecs work.
> > FreeBSD balrog.2hip.net 8.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT #13 r190402M: > Tue Mar 24 22:41:47 CDT 2009 > rnol...@balrog.2hip.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/BALROG amd64 > > robert. > > -- > Robert Noland <rnol...@freebsd.org> > FreeBSD
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