[BUGA] FreeBSD on AMD64

Greg Lewis glewis at eyesbeyond.com
Sun Jul 2 08:34:48 CST 2006


On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 05:35:33PM +0930, David Lloyd wrote:
> Has anyone any experience running FreeBSD on an AMD64 system? I'm
> contemplating shifting my workstation at work to such a machine and
> would need to run:
> 
>  * Perl 5.8.X
>  * MySQL 5.X
>  * PHP5.X
>  * Apache2
>  * Postgresql 8.X

I've got FreeBSD on an amd64.  Of your list, I only run Perl though
(the main reason I have it is for Java).  I've run apache on another
FreeBSD/amd64 machine previously though.  The others are all very
mainstream ports, I'd be very surprised if they didn't run.

> Does DB2 run on FreeBSD natively - I'm not sure?

Not sure.

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