On Nov 28, 2012, at 6:36 PM, mike miskulin <[email protected]> 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. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
