Freebsd 64?

Atrocity · 09-10-2004, 09:30 AM

I just ordered a new computer, with a athlon 64 3200
1 gig of ram, some pretty sweet 10,000 rpm drives on raid and some other stuff and I am wondering if its worth upgrading from freebsd to freebsd 64?
I heard a rumor that you cannot run 32 bit programs in the 64 bit OS, but that RedSplat can run both 32 and 64 bit programs, however I dont like Redsplat or most of the other linux distros other then slack and BSD.
So does anyone know the issues with this or should i just stick with the regular 32 bit version of bsd

chort · 09-10-2004, 11:13 PM

The issue with 32bit binaries shouldn't matter, because if you install a package you'll install it from the amd64 arch, not the i386 arch, so those packages will work just fine.

makk0 · 09-17-2004, 02:43 AM

On the same topic, i was wondering, i downloaded freebsd4.10(x86) and plan to use it on an Itanium2 SMP. Will it work?

chort · 09-17-2004, 01:39 PM

It looks like it's supported (sort of) on 5.x-current, but I don't know about 4.x. http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/ia64/index.html#status

You could try searching the release notes at www.FreeBSD.org to see when ia64 became a supported platform (ia64 is completely different from amd64).