Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2012 12:40:48 -0300 From: marcos alves <noidmvp@gmail.com> To: Paul Pathiakis <pathiaki2@yahoo.com> Cc: Chris Rees <crees@freebsd.org>, "ports@freebsd.org" <ports@freebsd.org>, Kris Moore <kris@pcbsd.org> Subject: Re: Ports request Message-ID: <CAAFx2ko7u7rNKSr0nvt-p49c%2BdCRNOOvrpOhk%2BMbMEbfw3pWRg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1349532880.5988.YahooMailNeo@web110510.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> References: <1349495564.97529.YahooMailNeo@web110513.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <CADLo83_yd7z2dO0Q4gW2GK=s%2BE=cpn9_XMOeUBMQMspEbQA%2BPw@mail.gmail.com> <1349532880.5988.YahooMailNeo@web110510.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>
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Wine itself or games under wine? What are the issues? 2012/10/6 Paul Pathiakis <pathiaki2@yahoo.com> > 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 <crees@FreeBSD.org> > To: Paul Pathiakis <pathiaki2@yahoo.com> > Cc: "ports@freebsd.org" <ports@freebsd.org>; Kris Moore <kris@pcbsd.org> > Sent: Saturday, October 6, 2012 2:45 AM > Subject: Re: Ports request > > On 6 October 2012 04:52, Paul Pathiakis <pathiaki2@yahoo.com> 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" >
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