Play on BSD

playonbsd.com

26 points·ecliptik··9 comments

The moment steam and unity run on freebsd i am switching for good. That os is just amazingly designed and was my first unix experience. I can mod the shit out if it and is rock solid but sadly cant run any of the two. As soon as it nails gaming this os will become extremely popular.

you forgot about gpu drivers

Thats a dependency of the two and thus implied. GPU drivers are a must and i think should be high priority. Freebsd lost the server market but it could aim for the desktop market.

This is very cool and I like the idea of gaming on BSD a lot, but this site seems to be Under Construction on most of the pages I click on. Maybe wait for it to be more complete before submitting?

Wow, it’s not often I see something posted to HN that also is a Gemini capsule:

gemini://playonbsd.com/

Even as a protocols nerd, I had no idea what you were talking about, and had to use some google-fu to figure it out.

https://geminiquickst.art/ - Gemini is a web-alternative, which I would compare to the gopher protocol.

The Project Gemini site is here: https://gemini.circumlunar.space/

There are multiple Gemini browsers, with LaGrange [1] one of my favorites since it works on desktop and mobile and also supports gopher://

1. https://gmi.skyjake.fi/lagrange/

I did originally discover this on Gemini via CAPCOM and after the fact saw it also had an http site.

The Playstation 5 OS (Orbis?) is based on FreeBSD. That sort of counts.

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