Official FreeBSD nVidia Drivers

Hugh writes "The FreeBSD NVIDIA Driver Initiative has announced that nVidia itself will be releasing a FreeBSD driver for its line of cards. This is excellent news for people who prefer to Quake on the best OS available."

Comments

Huh?

[Anonymous Coward]

This is excellent news for people who prefer to Quake on the best OS available.

But ... it already runs in Mac OS X?

Re:Huh?

[foniksonik]

I would conjecture that OS X is the main reason why FreeBSD is getting a port out of nowhere, seeing as how the two are cousins.

Too much support for my tastes..

[zulux]

Good greif, FreeBSD is going mainstram. Yuk!

How can I be condecending and arrogent when everybody else is using the same operating system as I am? How can I put on airs of self-ritous opression when people are actually supporting my OS?

Oh well, off to OpenBSD, or if that too poplar, I'll have to ger an Amiga. Sigh.

Re:Too much support for my tastes..

[coene]

Run OpenBSD, maybe ittl push for these type of things to come our way.

The best?

[Ogerman]

people who prefer to [run] Quake on the best OS available.

*BSD isn't the best OS available. Neither is Linux. They each have their strengths and weaknesses. Neither OS is inherently more secure. Neither OS has an absolute performance advantage over the other. Silly trolls. (:

Re:Cool!

[questionlp]

Yes it can... The game will run using the Linux Compatibility Layer. For more information, check out this page. Looking at the end of the page, you will find the following paragraph:

The Linux version will run under FreeBSD but both the Linux and FreeBSD versions require hardware graphics acceleration. The only supported graphics acceleration is 3dfx though others may work.

Also check out the different Q3 ports available within the FreeBSD ports collection under the games/ section. Wanna check? Go to freshports.org/games or go to their search page and search for "q3".

Re:What's the Point?

[evilviper]

Hmm, I refuse to use Windows because:

I don't feel like getting a toop-of-the-line computer every 6 months

I don't like using a platform where problems cannot be fixed short of a re-install

I refuse to pay huge ammounts of money for the OS.

I will not defragment! Nor will I spend tons of money just for a reasonably decent defragmenting program.

I don't like rebooting

I will not spend a week just to disable running services, and configure the basics.

I could go on, but I'm tired of this. And no, this isn't off topic. "This is excellent news for people who prefer to Quake on the best OS available." is in the main story.

Re:Dedicated Game Servers

[Lazaru5]

All the Linux dedicated servers run fine on BSD. On FreeBSD: /usr/ports/games/halflifeserver /usr/ports/games/hl-server* (includes CS, DOD, etc) /usr/ports/games/q3server /usr/ports/games/q3server-* (includes RA, etc) /usr/ports/games/utserver /usr/ports/games/bnetd (Disabled, but you can find the source on your own and remove the IGNORE macro from the Makefil) /usr/ports/games/mythserver

And if there's not a Port (remember, Ports aren't necessarily "ports", but are just a way to easily install an application, be it from source - with or without patches - or binary) you can likely still install it following whatever directions are included.