Re: what to do? amd64 - i386

From: dick hoogendijk (dick_at_nagual.st)
Date: 07/31/05

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    On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 19:38:01 +0200
    Benjamin Lutz <benlutz@datacomm.ch> wrote:

    > Yes. Ports that are known not to build on certain architectures have an
    > ONLY_FOR_ARCH flag set. Eg:
    >
    > cd /usr/ports/www/opera; make -V ONLY_FOR_ARCH

    Just tried this, but got no response. Maybe it works now.

    > There are a few things that will not work at all on amd64 right now,
    > however: OpenOffice.org, proprietary media codecs, hardware OpenGL
    > acceleration...

    Any ideas about _WHAT_ does not work? Do you have examples?
    "If I can't live without them, then.." ;-))

    > Personally, I have two installations of FreeBSD, both i386 and amd64.
    > They share /home. i386 is my production version, and the amd64
    > installation is for playing around (or when the added speed comes in
    > handy). Why not try that arrangement. That way you can periodically
    > check up on FreeBSD/amd64's progress and decide yourself when you want
    > to switch.

    Sounds nice, although I'm not that keen on keeping too much systems
    up2date. Takes too much time.. My main (internet) server still runs on
    4.11-stable. I have begun to explore 5.4 to get familiar with the new
    system but find it to be not ready for 24/7. I.e. I use ipfilter which
    seems to be unstable on 5.4. I don't want to change to pf just for that
    reason. Maybe 5.5 will be a better point to change the server. It's
    always difficult to find the right point in time to make such a
    switch ;) 

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