From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jul 27 7:20: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl (wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl [131.155.56.216]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B12537B405 for ; Fri, 27 Jul 2001 07:20:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from karelj@wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl) Received: (from karelj@localhost) by wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl (8.11.4/8.11.4) id f6REJLD64746; Fri, 27 Jul 2001 16:19:21 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from karelj) Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 16:19:21 +0200 From: "Karel J. Bosschaart" To: Stephen McKay Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Most BSD-like and games-friendly Linux? Message-ID: <20010727161921.A64682@wop21.wop.wtb.tue.nl> References: <200107271328.f6RDScq34621@dungeon.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <200107271328.f6RDScq34621@dungeon.home>; from mckay@thehub.com.au on Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 11:28:38PM +1000 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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