Thread: PC-BSD

Curse you Bravo Pathfinder!!!

Alright well I am setting up a partition on my computer tomorrow night/tonight that will have PC-BSD, I figure give it a few GB see what it can do, maybe if I can play BF2 on it I might use it as a primary. There is Wine on it so I got to go check their site to see what they got for support atm.

Wish me luck, I'll post it up once the installs have gone properly. (redoing windows as well)

edit- ok BF2 is supported by Wine, though the Screenies that are posted do not look quite so nice

Alrighty, BSD is up and running.

INSTALLED

• Firefox
• Open Office
• Wine
• Teamspeak
• JavaJDK & JavaJRE
• Pigin(AKA Gaim)

TO BE INSTALLED/LOOKING UP IF SUPPORTED

• Ventrilo - Website says in development
• G15 Media Keys-got to tweek some settings and I think I am there
• XFire - got to get this up and going in Wine
• Media Player-stock one does not like playlists
• UML
• Eclipse

Over all I am impressed. I have some more work to put into it however, I think that if Punkbuster would work flawlessly with Wine and same with BF2. I'd never install Windows again. This required, what? I have so far used only 5GBs of space for all the above which includes an OS....yes I know there are OSes out there that boot off of a Flashdrive but this is impressive. Oh and my desktop can snow....

I've just recently repartitioned a 20GB chunk of HD space for testing with Kubuntu (Ubuntu Linux that uses KDE instead of Gnome). What I've seen of it so far really impresses me: it recognized all of my laptop's hardware with NO tweaking whatsoever required, right down to the Wireless on/off buttons along the top, and installing things with the package manager is much easier than what I can remember from trying Fedora four or five years ago.

If Wine had better support for the battlefield games, I would have absolutely no reason at all to use Windows. However, the good thing is that there are a lot of gamers who are working hard on getting their favorite games working on Wine - support for BF2 has gotten much better since I checked last year. And of course, the really popular games (CS:S, WoW, various other ones) work near-flawlessly. So, give it time - testers have only recently gotten it working on Multiplayer, and support will get better.

Wine does work with BF2, granted some graphical errors, but Wine does NOT work for Punkbuster. Which would prevent me from playing online on any worth while server(AKA not TTP) I am going to reinstall windows for the sole purpose of playing video games. That being said...I will play them a bit less, which is good. That means I will be focusing more on school work getting my grades up.

I am still looking for an Xfire Plugin I heard of for Gaim...oh sorry pidgin. Anyone have it hanging about or a handy link. I tried google couldn't find it directly, though I did find an 11 page topic on xfire's forums demanding it for linux, which would then mean it would work 99% chance work for BSD. But who knows.

I am registered on BSD's main forums, though I think I'll find another community those forums are sort of dead...

Oh and if I could get my G15 slightly more operational, it'd be great not to have wasted the money buying it if I could...well I could alway go back to my wireless stuff.

Start a friends only lobby and change it to public. Of course its possible, otherwise no one would be playing L4D.