Thread: amd64 or x86?
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Old 20th May 2008
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Personally unless you have like 5+++ GB of system memory I doubt you are missing out on much using the i386 one instead of the amd64. That's just my opinion of things !!!


Even if you could run an AMD64 kernel on an i386 Userland it probably is not a good idea: FreeBSD == complete OS.
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