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FreeBSD Support for AMD64 On the Way

Posted by michael on from the if-i-had-a-hammer dept.

BSD Forums writes "FreeBSD operating system is making progress towards support for several 64bit platforms. FreeBSD 5.0 introduced SPARC64 and IA64 (Itanium) to its list of platforms and AMD64 is likely to be added in version 5.2."

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  1. correction by JDizzy · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    I was reading this:

    FreeBSD is often cited as being a better choice for government funding of development work due to its far less onerous licensing. Basically, code from FreeBSD can be lifted by anyone who is interested in using it. Apple's Mac OSX is based on FreeBSD but heavily modified and Microsoft has been known to borrow a snippet or two.
    ... and I would like to point out that Microsoft has borrowed from BSD, but not neccesarily FreeBSD. More like the original BSD that the others (Free, NET, and Open) came from. As far as I know OS X is based on NEXT, and a bit of FreeBSD userland (It depends who you ask).
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