Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 16:19:21 +0200 From: "Karel J. Bosschaart" <karelj@wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl> To: Stephen McKay <mckay@thehub.com.au> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Most BSD-like and games-friendly Linux? Message-ID: <20010727161921.A64682@wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl> In-Reply-To: <200107271328.f6RDScq34621@dungeon.home>; from mckay@thehub.com.au on Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 11:28:38PM %2B1000 References: <200107271328.f6RDScq34621@dungeon.home>
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On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 11:28:38PM +1000, Stephen McKay wrote: > What do you do when you want to play action games? I'm talking heavy > 3D OpenGL graphics, not just xbill. :-) > I have the Linux versions of Unreal Tournament, Quake 3 Arena and Soldier of Fortune, and I play them in FreeBSD. Loki does a good job when it comes to playing in compatibility mode :-). Their demo installer works fine on FreeBSD. > My first choice would be FreeBSD, of course, but I've had not a great deal > of success with FreeBSD and 3D action gaming. XP is coming soon, and I Yes, it can be a PITA to get hardware acceleration going properly in FreeBSD. If you're interested in the latest news you can look here: http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~eanholt/dri/ > want to not even have the displeasure of installing it even once, not > even for a taste. That leaves a Linux distro. But which one? > > I'm interested in opinions on the most game friendly, and most BSD-like > Linux distro around. I've got a Geforce2 in an Athlon box and want to > try Quake and Unreal and such. I want to install and play, not debug > the Linuxulator or hopeless game install scripts. I want nVidia's > display driver to just work without tricks. That sort of thing. > At the moment I have Slackware, which I like much much more than RedHat. I think that Slackware is the most BSD-like Linux, but I only have limited experience with Linux distros. I hear good stories about Debian (never tried it myself). But still, I'm mostly playing games in FreeBSD... > Anyone willing to admit to being a Linux gaming expert on a FreeBSD list? :-) > Hmmm, would be a funny question to ask on a Linux forum what distro is best for gaming :-). Karel. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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