From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 6 15:40:50 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A605106566C; Sat, 6 Oct 2012 15:40:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from noidmvp@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ie0-f182.google.com (mail-ie0-f182.google.com [209.85.223.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3E738FC12; Sat, 6 Oct 2012 15:40:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ie0-f182.google.com with SMTP id k10so8331398iea.13 for ; Sat, 06 Oct 2012 08:40:49 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=ZLDXWtlAPmNPeAqOw8CFrkR4rpoR4p5DshMh5Et91/A=; b=GSfKy6Buzs6MHiNxxlf+dDfPdx9FqtbUFCLfCu13VEwBVnbirynPS0EZ2vVFB7Qoip 0fzRruBzrhqqLLx82REcVYdZPVLnHwwJW5doNvsW1iJmKhgRFVBjWtLsZw9bE5KqPKyI z2Qw/dr87b/kIPyZPQ0uQVTONntqsJ4EMxA7QoY/0rdS+w/2jm+XoCSCeUr2cif+Vsci /D4ssh83GViL1IjEbN/aQ5J1rq6on5KkhYXmPZItOZybrKQRQPNJKvMAEwlQcnoYQB1/ 4sHma8+zAvLlIrZaGfn0bw6Wv0glfBn+hNk6FWQgeuuljV0TruCBSi9syZULSOPIya4C BpxA== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.50.171.4 with SMTP id aq4mr3935795igc.72.1349538048889; Sat, 06 Oct 2012 08:40:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.231.58.149 with HTTP; Sat, 6 Oct 2012 08:40:48 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1349532880.5988.YahooMailNeo@web110510.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> References: <1349495564.97529.YahooMailNeo@web110513.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <1349532880.5988.YahooMailNeo@web110510.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2012 12:40:48 -0300 Message-ID: From: marcos alves To: Paul Pathiakis Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Chris Rees , "ports@freebsd.org" , Kris Moore Subject: Re: Ports request X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2012 15:40:50 -0000 Wine itself or games under wine? What are the issues? 2012/10/6 Paul Pathiakis > I have had a really difficult time getting wine to run on PC-BSD and > FreeBSD. Nothing seems to work correctly. Is there a simple document to > get this to work? > > If I can get it to work, there's probably a good chance I can move the boy > (and others) over to PC-BSD. > > P. > > > ________________________________ > From: Chris Rees > To: Paul Pathiakis > Cc: "ports@freebsd.org" ; Kris Moore > Sent: Saturday, October 6, 2012 2:45 AM > Subject: Re: Ports request > > On 6 October 2012 04:52, Paul Pathiakis wrote: > > Good day, ports! > > > > Something that I have noticed in the world of home desktops.... > although *BSD is total server package and I can do many things..... > > The StEam platform from ValVe corp is a large step in gaming at this > point. > > > > I have a 13 year old who has a slew of friends on this gaming platform. > Minecraft was a huge leap for gaming on the desktop on PC-BSD. My son > loves using it on PC-BSD but STEAM is where he is spending more than half > his time.... on Windoze!! > > > > StEam is in the process of moving over to Linux. Please don't fall > behind in the effort of bringing this platform to BSD. > > Don't be fooled-- the people responsible for bringing Steam to Linux > are the guys at Valve, not the "Linux people", whoever they are. > > Being non-free software, we are almost powerless in porting it. It > does run great under Wine however. > > Chris > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >