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Official FreeBSD nVidia Drivers

Posted by michael on from the purty-pictures dept.

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."

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  1. Too much support for my tastes.. by zulux · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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    Moneyed corporations, non-working 'poor' and criminal prisoners are turning productive citizens into tax-slaves.

    1. Re:Too much support for my tastes.. by coene · · Score: 4, Insightful

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

  2. The best? by Ogerman · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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. (:

  3. Re:Cool! by questionlp · · Score: 4, Informative
    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".