FreeBSD on AMD64 3000+ - amd64 or i386 version of FreeBSD?

From: Mark Kane (mark_at_mkproductions.org)
Date: 07/12/05

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    Hi everyone. I have decided to ditch Windows XP completely when my
    motherboard comes back from it's RMA. I have a few questions about the
    different FreeBSD versions.

    1) I have an AMD64 3000+ processor. I've been reading some things around
    the Internet about ports and other software not compiling properly with
    the amd64 version of FreeBSD. Most of the things I've read about this
    have been from 2004 or even late 2003, so I'm wondering how things have
    progressed since then. Are there still many ports or software that don't
    compile properly? Is there a list somewhere of known ports not to work
    on the amd64 version?

    Here is a short list of main things I will use this PC for:
    IRC (X-Chat, maybe irssi)
    Web Browsing (Mozilla Firefox)
    Media playing (XMMS/VLC/mplayer)
    Email (Mozilla Thunderbird)
    Audio Streaming/Recording (streamTranscoder, streamripper, sc_trans maybe)
    BitTorrent (Azureus)
    Audio/Video Encoding (lame, oggenc, various video encoding tools)

    Basically I'm wondering opinions on either the i386 or amd64 version of
    FreeBSD for my hardware for FreeBSD 5.4. Which works better? For what
    reasons? Are there any other caveats?

    2) Will my hardware work properly with the amd64 version? I see my
    motherboard (Giga-Byte GA-K8NS Pro) is listed as "Functional" on the
    FreeBSD amd64 motherboard page
    (http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/amd64/motherboards.html).

    My other hardware includes:

    Sound Blaster Augidy 2 Platinum
    GeForce FX5600 (MSI)
    TDK VeloCD 40x12x48 CD Burner
    Sony DRU500A DVD Burner

    3) I know of a couple applications that don't build on the amd64 such as
    linux-firefox and Azureus. Does anyone have any info on when there might
    be versions compatible with the amd64, or if there is any other software
    like them that would work with the amd64 version (main concern is flash
    on websites)?

    Thanks very much in advance for your opinions!

    -Mark
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