Re: amd64 or i386?

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 08:21:49AM +1100, Carl Brewer wrote:
> 
> I'm about to replace some aging hardware (2.8g celeron) with new stuff, 
> Intel C2D E7400 with a swag of RAM etc.  The new motherboard has an 
> ethernet chip not supported in 4.0.1 (realtek 8168B/8111B Rev 0.02) so 
> I'm going to have to go to 5.0RC2 I guess or fiddle with unreleased 
> kernels.  Anyway ... The gist of the question :
> 
> As I'll be pulling a number of apps over, including a cyrus mailserver, 
> plone & zope, sendmail with some milters (clamav & spamassassin) and a 
> few other bits & pieces including apache 2.2 and squirrelmail, should I 
> go to an amd64 architecture or stick with i386?  This is by no means a 
> criticism, but with OpenSolaris i386 stuff seems to 'just work' on 64 
> bit systems as far as I can tell, is this the case also with NetBSD 5.0 
> amd64 and i386 stuff (mainly from pkgsrc).

From I'd be surprised if one of the applications from the list
above break (I know at last python, perl, sendmail and apache22 are safe
on amd64 for the main ones). I'd expect more troubles with desktop
applications; but my main workstation at work is an alpha and I didn't
encounter serious issues yet (even firefox2 works :)

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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