> This doesn't tally with my experiences. I've had an amd64 laptop Me neither - but then I think this is a large case of 'your mileage may vary', as it entirely depends on what you are doing. I did find, like the original poster, that a number of language ports didn't work properly when I first tried it - but they wenr't critical for me so I jst found something else to play with. As a basic desktop system running X, firefox and thunderbird it works fine. As a server ruunning samba and apache it also works fine. but if you want to do slightly more obscure things with it then you can come I cropper (I ran up against the libffi issue too, and abandonned amd64 for about a year).
If the stuff you want to run works properly under amd64 then it's preferable to i386 - but that depends on you knowing what you want to run. For a general purpose desktop I have no idea what interesting tipbit I might come across on the net and be curious about running so I stick with i386. For production machines and servers when I know exactly what software I am going to run forvever (more or less) then I am switching them all over to amd4. > (I'll also admit that I maintain some freeware software that is not > 64-bit clean - but it started life on a PDP-11 and I've got more So did BSD :-) -pete. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
