On Wed, 28 Nov 2012 19:25:59 +0100 Polytropon <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Nov 2012 12:53:26 -0500, mike miskulin wrote: > > But I guess the basic question remains - are there any > > considerations in regards ports, linux emulation, etc that would > > sway me to remain i386? > > The only problem might be if you want to use wine. As it has > been said, there are binary packages (wine_amd64, if I remember > correctly), but the rest of the system should run good on > amd64 as it did on i386. > > Sidenote: I switched back from 8.2/amd64 to 8.2/i386 because > of three reasons (in fact, two reasons and one justification): > I had problems with wine, problems with nVidia's driver (plus > a faulty GPU), and I only have 2 GB RAM. Anywhere else, I have > not experienced problems with amd64. > > The nvidia driver works fine now. Linux emulation is only 32 bit though. -- Just because it can been done, does not mean it should be done. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
