[BUGA] FreeBSD on AMD64

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

On Saturday,  1 July 2006 at 17:35:33 +0930, David Lloyd wrote:
>
> Hi There,
>
> 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

You shouldn't have difficulty with any of these.  What I've heard is
that there are problems with multimedia, but they're unsubstantiated,
and multimedia software on any platform is flaky anyway, so it may not
be AMD64 specific.

Note that Yahoo! runs FreeBSD on AMD64, and a lot of the development
work came from Yahoo!, so you can assume a certain minimum standard :-)

Greg
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