[BUGS] hardware changing time .. moving forward

[Trevor Roydhouse]

jonathan michaels wrote:

> if it is that one is not more 'suitable' then why is amd
> seening this 'fallout', these problems as freebsd moves forward ? 

I've been running an AMD 64 bit FreeBSD system since 5.something, now on 
6.3 and have not seen any FreeBSD related issues. I also buy VIA chipset 
motherboards unlike someone else :) and haven't had any issues with these.

As for the why AMD, the CPUs were cheaper than the opposition, they 
performed as well as or better, and the motherboards were/are still 
cheaper and tend to last longer. Every Intel CPU seems to require yet 
another socket and/or yet another chipset, but my original AMD Athlon 64 
socket 939 in an ASUS A8V motherboard was ultimately replaced by an AMD 
Athlon 64 socket 939 dual core by simply dropping in the new CPU. Cheap 
upgrade.

My only issues are with the creeping curse known as Gnome. Let's be 
clear: I like twm -- probably because that's what I started with back in 
my Coherent days in the early 1990s. I like the minimalist approach, so 
  there's no way I'll use Gnome (or KDE for that matter). Installing 
ports via source these days is adding lots of Gnome related "stuff" that 
I clear out from time to time only to have it dragged back in as a 
dependency by, recently, such illustrious programs as Seamonkey. I guess 
I'm going to have to put in more and more effort to stay where I am.

Oh, and Xorg - I never did manage to get a stable Xorg system on AMD64 
(installing Xorg on a 32 bit system is fine, apart from the lousy ATI 
Radeon video driver). Alas, I also failed to build a working XFree86 4.7 
system, so I'm persevering with the now deprecated and soon to be 
vanquished, but very stable, XFree86 4.5. There's just some rabbit holes 
I don't feel the need to go down too often :)

Does this help? I think you might see a trend emerging ... we all tend 
to use what we know which generally saves a lot of time and frustration.

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Trevor Roydhouse                            Mob  : 0415-448-273
BJuris, LLB, LLM (UNSW)
System Developer
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