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173.88.199.104 at 15:41, 13 August 2012

2012-08-13T15:41:22Z

2012-08-13T15:38:31Z

2012-08-13T15:36:15Z

2012-08-13T15:34:42Z

2011-06-05T14:22:42Z

AMD64

2011-06-05T14:22:05Z

i386

2011-05-09T02:22:56Z

PowerPC

2011-05-09T01:22:13Z

Pentium (i586)

2011-05-08T23:30:30Z

i486

2008-09-23T08:09:17Z

Updated XenServer 5.0 now capable of hosting FreeBSD x86 32- and 64-bit platforms

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 [[NetBSD]], a relation of FreeBSD, uses the term 'ports' to refer to processor specific releases which is different to the FreeBSD term of [[ports]].  NetBSD is most well known for supporting the most diverse set of processor architectures.  Visit the [http://www.netbsd.org official NetBSD website] for more details.
-[[Category : Installation]]
+[[Category : Installation]] [[Category : Architecture-Specific]]
 [[Category : Architecture-Specific]]

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	[[NetBSD]], a relation of FreeBSD, uses the term 'ports' to refer to processor specific releases which is different to the FreeBSD term of [[ports]]. NetBSD is most well known for supporting the most diverse set of processor architectures. Visit the [http://www.netbsd.org official NetBSD website] for more details.		[[NetBSD]], a relation of FreeBSD, uses the term 'ports' to refer to processor specific releases which is different to the FreeBSD term of [[ports]]. NetBSD is most well known for supporting the most diverse set of processor architectures. Visit the [http://www.netbsd.org official NetBSD website] for more details.

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 [[NetBSD]], a relation of FreeBSD, uses the term 'ports' to refer to processor specific releases which is different to the FreeBSD term of [[ports]].  NetBSD is most well known for supporting the most diverse set of processor architectures.  Visit the [http://www.netbsd.org official NetBSD website] for more details.
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 [[Category : Installation]]

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	FreeBSD has a specific release for this architecture under the AMD64 title (refer to the x86-64 section).		FreeBSD has a specific release for this architecture under the AMD64 title (refer to the x86-64 section).
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−	~~Home run! Great slugging with that anwesr!~~

	=== Xen ===		=== Xen ===

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	This is the architecture that will work on almost all Intel and AMD processors, both 32bit and 64bit though it will only use the 32bit mode of these processors. The i386 pre-dates the ubiquitous Pentium range of processors by two generations with the i486 processor existing between them. Therefore the backwards compatibility of the newer Intel and AMD processors ensures this architecture remains available.		This is the architecture that will work on almost all Intel and AMD processors, both 32bit and 64bit though it will only use the 32bit mode of these processors. The i386 pre-dates the ubiquitous Pentium range of processors by two generations with the i486 processor existing between them. Therefore the backwards compatibility of the newer Intel and AMD processors ensures this architecture remains available.
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−	~~Wow! Great thkining! JK~~
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−	~~tyynef <a href="http://zxaioemvbxzo.com/">zxaioemvbxzo</a>~~

	=== Intel x86-64 ===		=== Intel x86-64 ===

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 FreeBSD has a specific release for this architecture under the AMD64 title (refer to the x86-64 section).
-=== PowerPC ===
+Home run! Great slugging with that anwesr!
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-The PowerPC is the brand name for the processor architecture designed by collaboration between Apple, IBM and Motorola.  This architecture was commonly used in Apple systems prior to their migration to the Intel architecture (that of the later generation Pentium brand) however it remains in use by IBM in their server range.
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-FreeBSD is in an initial stage of developing support for this platform and as such there is little information on the availability of a specific release for this architecture.
 === Xen ===

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 Wow! Great thkining! JK
-=== Pentium (i586) ===
+tyynef  <a href="http://zxaioemvbxzo.com/">zxaioemvbxzo</a>
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-The Pentium was simply a branding of next generation processors from Intel which moved away from the numerical naming of processors up until that point.  The original processor in this generation is technically the i586 architecture with later Pentium processors, namely the Pentium II and Pentium III et al, being the i686 architecture.
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-FreeBSD has no specific Pentium (either i586 or i686) release to run on this processor instead the i386 version is used for this specific architecture using the in-built backwards compatibility.
 === Intel x86-64 ===

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 This is the architecture that will work on almost all Intel and AMD processors, both 32bit and 64bit though it will only use the 32bit mode of these processors.  The i386 pre-dates the ubiquitous Pentium range of processors by two generations with the i486 processor existing between them.  Therefore the backwards compatibility of the newer Intel and AMD processors ensures this architecture remains available.
-=== i486 ===
+Wow! Great thkining! JK
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-This is simply the next generation of processor architecture from Intel, with other manufacturers making compatible clones of it.  FreeBSD does not have a specific i486 release to run on this processor instead the i386 version is used for this specific architecture using the in-built backwards compatibility.
 === Pentium (i586) ===

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 The Xen system was bought by Citrix and is sold under the [http://citrix.com/English/ps2/products/product.asp?contentID=683148 XenServer] brand name.  The open source code remains available from the [http://www.xen.org/ official website].
-FreeBSD does not currently have official support for this ''pseudo''-architecture however there are custom-kernels available that run within Xen and XenServer hypervisors on the internet.
+FreeBSD does not currently have official support for this ''pseudo''-architecture however as of XenServer 5.0 both the i386 (32-bit) and amd64 (64-bit) architectures will boot from the ISO media using the hardware-assisted virtualisation instructions found on AMD and Intel processors.
 == Architecture specific FreeBSD ==