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Accelerated nVidia Drivers for FreeBSD

Posted by michael on from the bring-out-all-the-freebsd-games dept.

zero0w writes "nVidia has released the official OpenGL accelerated driver set for FreeBSD 4.7 STABLE. Check out the nVidia Driver page for more detail. According to the page, this release should be considered as initial beta. So don't count on it to build a day-to-day production system, yet."

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  1. initial beta? by sczimme · · Score: 4, Funny

    According to the page, this release should be considered as initial beta

    Isn't that usually called 'alpha'?

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  2. Finally! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Finally I can stop dual-booting to Linux just so I can play games...

  3. Sure, rub it in by dubbayu_d_40 · · Score: 5, Funny

    As if your shell wasn't already 100X better than my dos console, you just have to go and make it paint faster.

  4. FACT: NVIDIA is dying by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    It is official; 3D Gamers.com now confirms: NVIDIA is dying.

    One more crippling bombshell hit the happily fragging NVIDIA community when /. confirmed that NVIDIA drivers are coming to FreeBSD. Coming close on the heels of the recent Doom3 beta, which plainly shows that we'll need the GeForce5s of the future to run it, uh, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. NVIDIA is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by...er... putting a graphics card in every Apple, every X-Box...

    Geez, trolling is a lot harder than I thought...

  5. Re:Great! But... by swordboy · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...the question is, will my games run faster on FreeBSD?

    I dunno but SSH runs great on my headless nForce firewall.

    w00t!

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  6. Good Deal by SomeOtherGuy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now I can get working on my dream Apache module called mod_3daccel

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