From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 17 19:43: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.alpha.net.au (mail2.alpha.net.au [203.41.44.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5E0F37B5FA for ; Mon, 17 Apr 2000 19:42:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dannyh@idx.com.au) Received: from freebsd.freebsd.org (surry-pool-133.alpha.net.au [203.41.44.133] (may be forged)) by mail.alpha.net.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA09160; Tue, 18 Apr 2000 12:42:13 +1000 From: Danny To: markh@lon.imag.net, Mark Hendriks , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Just a couple Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 12:43:45 +1000 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.21] Content-Type: text/plain Cc: topof_theworld@yahoo.com References: <00041712102301.00717@mymachine.imag.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00041912475403.00395@freebsd.freebsd.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Unless you are into games such as Tetris or Kpoker or CHess then you can play games on FREEBSD but if you want to play games like Quarke or NFS 3 you have to use Windows because of Marketing reasons. Until Software development companies become educated and vendors become educated about FreeBSD then maybe one day we might get NFS 3 on FreeBSD. But you can use FreeBSD to setup a quake2 and quake server if you are into this type of things. On Tue, 18 Apr 2000, Mark Hendriks wrote: > On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, Vinny Palladino wrote: > > I've been looking around for a new OS, and > > read about yours on Cnet. I use my computer for > > on-line gaming. Would my windows games be able to run > > on FreeBSD3.2? Does it support OpenGL. What advantages > > (from a gamers point of view) would I gain from this > > OS? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message