Re: i686 CPU Compatibility
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 12:29:02PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: 7.0 is perfectly stable and is recommended for production use. It's not bleeding edge code. That's 8.0-CURRENT which is NOT for production use. Unless you have a particular reason for using 6.x I would go with 7.0 It's fully tested. nothing is ever fully tested ;) but yes, 7.0 can be classified stable. i would recommend 7.1-BETA install as some bugs are fixed there If the original poster has fairly new hardware, then he might like to go with 7.1-RC1. This has got fixes for newer NICs and graphic cards - after all 7.0 is about a year old. If my memory serves me well, it's fairly rare to have bug fixes between the release candidates the final release, so he shouldn't have too many problems with it. I just installed 7.1-BETA on a laptop when 7.0 was a no-go because it didn't support the NIC (realtek, I think) and the GPU (Nvidia 8600 M) using the nv driver. My advice on the i386 v AMD64 question is if your memory is 4GB or over (or likely to be in the future) use AMD64, otherwise take your pick. i386 has better support for Flash and proprietary Nvidia driver which might matter. I'm assuming the CPU supports the 64 bit extensions, if not, you have to use i386. Regards, -- Frank Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
i686 CPU Compatibility
HI ADMIN, I just want to ask, is this freeBSD compatible with my i686 CPU. if there any, please advice me what version should i use. TQ Regards Mohd Shamsi Hafiz bin Abdul Hamid Pegawai Pemasaran Galeri Cenderamata Koperasi UPM BHD Beg Berkunci 260 Pejabat Pos UPM Universiti Putra Malaysia 43400 Serdang Selangor ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: i686 CPU Compatibility
Hello Abd, Yes it is. If you are a newcomer to FreeBSD i suggest you go for the latest RELEASE which is 7.0. All the platforms supported by FreeBSD as well as places where FBSD can be downloaded can be found here: http://www.freebsd.org/where.html. And of course don't forget to check: The Handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ The FAQ: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/ The Man: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi. a great day, v 2008/12/16 Abd Hamid Shamsi storage...@gmail.com HI ADMIN, I just want to ask, is this freeBSD compatible with my i686 CPU. if there any, please advice me what version should i use. TQ Regards Mohd Shamsi Hafiz bin Abdul Hamid Pegawai Pemasaran Galeri Cenderamata Koperasi UPM BHD Beg Berkunci 260 Pejabat Pos UPM Universiti Putra Malaysia 43400 Serdang Selangor ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: i686 CPU Compatibility
On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 17:00 +0800, Abd Hamid Shamsi wrote: HI ADMIN, I just want to ask, is this freeBSD compatible with my i686 CPU. if there any, please advice me what version should i use. TQ Should do - i386 is just for arch type. I believe 7.0 is the latest current release. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: i686 CPU Compatibility
7.0 is perfectly stable and is recommended for production use. It's not bleeding edge code. That's 8.0-CURRENT which is NOT for production use. Unless you have a particular reason for using 6.x I would go with 7.0 It's fully tested. nothing is ever fully tested ;) but yes, 7.0 can be classified stable. i would recommend 7.1-BETA install as some bugs are fixed there ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: i686 CPU Compatibility
On Tuesday 16 December 2008 00:50:30 Anthony M. Rasat wrote: Abd Hamid Shamsi wrote: I just want to ask, is this freeBSD compatible with my i686 CPU. if there any, please advice me what version should i use. FreeBSD came with two x86 flavour (can I said that? LOL sorry just had an ice cream earlier) which is x86 (32-bit) and x86_64 (64-bit). The x86 flavour is intended for old 386, 486 and 585 (starting from Pentium Pro and upward version) to latest Pentium 4 Dual Core. The x86 can handle multi processor architechture with SMP kernel which is available by default. The x86_64 flavour intended for AMD64 architechture that current Intel Core 2 Duo and since AMD Sempron and upward employed. However, this is not for IA64 which is totally different version of FreeBSD (I think) have created for it. If you aim for tested stable version of FreeBSD, you can use FreeBSD-6.x-RELEASE lines. However if your hardware is up to current (say no less than 2 years tops) and you want the bleeding-edge version of applications, you can try FreeBSD-7.0-RELEASE line (7.1 version is still in Release Candidate stage and not recommended except for testers). Hopes that what you're looking for. 7.0 is perfectly stable and is recommended for production use. It's not bleeding edge code. That's 8.0-CURRENT which is NOT for production use. Unless you have a particular reason for using 6.x I would go with 7.0 It's fully tested. Beech -- --- Beech Rintoul - FreeBSD Developer - be...@freebsd.org /\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | FreeBSD Since 4.x \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | http://people.freebsd.org/~beech X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Skype: akbeech / \ - http://www.FreeBSD.org/releases/7.0R/announce.html --- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: i686 CPU Compatibility
Abd Hamid Shamsi wrote: I just want to ask, is this freeBSD compatible with my i686 CPU. if there any, please advice me what version should i use. FreeBSD came with two x86 flavour (can I said that? LOL sorry just had an ice cream earlier) which is x86 (32-bit) and x86_64 (64-bit). The x86 flavour is intended for old 386, 486 and 585 (starting from Pentium Pro and upward version) to latest Pentium 4 Dual Core. The x86 can handle multi processor architechture with SMP kernel which is available by default. The x86_64 flavour intended for AMD64 architechture that current Intel Core 2 Duo and since AMD Sempron and upward employed. However, this is not for IA64 which is totally different version of FreeBSD (I think) have created for it. If you aim for tested stable version of FreeBSD, you can use FreeBSD-6.x-RELEASE lines. However if your hardware is up to current (say no less than 2 years tops) and you want the bleeding-edge version of applications, you can try FreeBSD-7.0-RELEASE line (7.1 version is still in Release Candidate stage and not recommended except for testers). Hopes that what you're looking for. -- Regards, Anthony M. Rasat Manager - Technical, Network and Support Division PT. Jawa Pos National Network Graha Pena Jawa Pos Group Building, 5th floor Jln. Raya Kebayoran Lama 12, Jakarta Selatan 12210 Indonesia.- Phone 02132185562 Phone 081574217035 Fax 02153651465 Web http://www.jpnn.com___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: i686 CPU Compatibility
HI ADMIN, I just want to ask, is this freeBSD compatible with my i686 CPU. if there any, please advice me what version should i use. TQ every version is Regards Mohd Shamsi Hafiz bin Abdul Hamid Pegawai Pemasaran Galeri Cenderamata Koperasi UPM BHD Beg Berkunci 260 Pejabat Pos UPM Universiti Putra Malaysia 43400 Serdang Selangor ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
