FreeBSD - Which distro for Q6600?

[foodfightr]

I was reading a thread that actually recommended the amd64 distro for an Intel Q6600. I'm a little confused- can someone explain which distro is right for me?

Thanks!

http://www.freebsd.org/where.html

 

[Munky]

The "amd64" platform name is just an outdated way of saying it's the 64-bit version. The correct name is x64. Anyway, it will work on Intel and AMD cpu's.

 

[Nothinman]

I personally hate the term "x64", it's just an absolute crap marketing term from MS. Either x86_64 or AMD64 are preferable and all of them refer to the same instruction set whether the CPU itself was produced by AMD or Intel.

 

[dv8silencer]

Yeah I don't like x64 that much either. I like to refer to it as x86_64 (I think originally from AMD) or Intel64 (Intel's name for it I think)