Second attempt at FreeBSD-11.0-RELEASE-i386, Xorg, and Xfce graphical desktop

[David Christensen]

On 01/17/17 01:42, Mike Clarke wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Jan 2017 19:16:59 -0800
> David Christensen <dpchrist at holgerdanske.com> wrote:
>
>> Therefore, I have been evaluating various BSD distributions over the
>> past several weeks using a computer with an Intel DQ67SW motherboard,
>> i7-2600S CPU, 8 GB RAM, and 16 GB SATA SSD:
>
> [snip]
>
>> So, I am making a second attempt at FreeBSD using:
>>
>> FreeBSD-11.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick.img
>
> Though not directly relevant to your question the i386 image is
> a 32 bit system so you'd get better performance if you installed
> FreeBSD-11.0-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img instead to take full advantage
> of your 64 bit processor and all 8GB of your RAM.

Thanks for the reply.


1.  I also have some 32-bit machines, and would prefer one distribution 
for all of them.

2.  If I find that I need more than 4 GB (3 GB?) of RAM, I'll either 
recompile with the PAE option or switch to 64-bit:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_Address_Extension


David