Re: FreeBSD 64-bit: Desktop ready?

kargl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Steven G. Kargl) writes:

In article <v1EIg.17517$kO3.8759@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Ed Hurst <me@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
I have intention of running a server, just a desktop machine. Recently I
got a donation of hardware which includes what I believe is a decent
64-bit machine, though the processor is a mere Sempron 2800+/64.

Having been told FreeBSD 64-bit isn't quite ready for production use, I
was wondering if any has anecdotal evidence to support using it for the
desktop. I'm a writer/researcher with little use for things like Flash
and Java plugins, but I do treasure stability and reliability. I'd be
willing to use OpenOffice in 32-bit compatibility mode, if necessary. I
intend to build everything from scratch, assuming CPUTYPE=k8.


FreeBSD-amd64 works fine as a desktop system. The only
thing that is missing is flash, and some of us really
don't miss flash.

A quick grep through the ports tree shows me a few hundred (maybe 500)
other ports that aren't available on amd64 (and a few that may have
slightly different functionality). Flash seems to be the only port
anybody notices missing for desktop use.

--
Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer
http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/
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