Re: New Release

[Danial Thom <danial_thom@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Kris Kennaway <kkenn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> On 2005-04-14, Danial Thom
> <danial_thom@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > A better question is what does it take to do
> it
> > well, or whether its worthwhile. In FreeBSD,
> the
> > amd64 is so clunky its unusable on a server,
> IMO.
> 
> What is 'clunky' about it?  Some third-party
> ports do not compile on
> 64-bit architectures, but that's not the fault
> of the OS.
> 
> Kris
> 

The kernel itself is clunky. Networking (ie
routing, bridging, etc) is severely degraded with
an amd64 kernel.

Danial


		
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