Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2016 19:16:51 +0200 From: Niklaas Baudet von Gersdorff <stdin@niklaas.eu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: game machine based on FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20160805171651.GD80518@box-hlm-03.niklaas.eu> In-Reply-To: <CAKoxK%2B56Fc3Pks6cCDOs394z5HxO5qmOo8u7j2iRSgnGk5CvMQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAKoxK%2B56Fc3Pks6cCDOs394z5HxO5qmOo8u7j2iRSgnGk5CvMQ@mail.gmail.com>
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Luca Ferrari [2016-08-05 18:51 +0200] : > I'm just curious if there is any effort or possibility to build up a > FreeBSD gaming machine. Since I've seen SteamOS > <http://store.steampowered.com/steamos/>; I'm just curious to be able > to make a machine based on FreeBSD (and therefore use it also as a nas > thru ZFS). AFAIK SteamOS is based on Linux. I remember a short discussion about running Steam on FreeBSD eventually stating that they are incompatible. I guess (please correct me if I am wrong) the main problem is FreeBSD's insufficient support for graphic cards, shaders et cetera. That said, while there is an increasing amount of games becoming compatible with Linux-based systems, I suspect we must wait even longer for them to be ported to FreeBSD. This is not to say that I don't embrace your idea and haven't thought about it by myself though. :-) Niklaas
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