Re: [ajug-members]: FreeBSD

[Barry Hawkins <ly5t5@allthingscomputed.com>]

On Apr 23, 2004, at 3:11 PM, angus.berry@elken.com wrote:

> Chris,
>
> Does BSD support 64 bit for Opteron / Itanium Servers??
>
> On Fri, 2004-04-23 at 13:00, Christopher Fowler wrote:
>> On Fri, 2004-04-23 at 12:10, Barry Hawkins wrote:
>>> I have FreeBSD 5.2.1 as a test environment running on a  
>>> non-production
>>> server.  It has a native 1.4.2 JDK and JBoss 3.2.3.  You can use one  
>>> of
>>> the Linux JDKs using Linux binary compatibility mode or you can go to
>>> the trouble to compile a native JDK yourself.  It's not too bad once
>>> you do it a couple of times, but some folks opt for the Linux
>>> JDK/binary compatibility route.  You can search the freebsd-questions
>>> mailing list and the freebsd-java mailing list for more info at:
>>>
>>
>> Would you run it as production?
>>
>>> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>
>>
>> s
>
>
Angus,
	In short, yes.  The links to the FreeBSD ports pages for IA64 and  
AMD64 are below:

http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/ia64/index.html
http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/amd64.html

	The Itanium port is at Tier 2, while the Opteron port is already Tier  
1.  This means that Opteron is fully supported and Itanium is close.   
More information on the tier system for FreeBSD platforms can be found  
at:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/ 
archs.html

Regards,
-- 
Barry C. Hawkins
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