Some quick things since my son is with me this weekend and there are some very important shows to watch and video games to be played:
1. Mozilla is completely fucked. No one, including the barely plural employees who remain, can decide what the fuck Firefox is actually about. I’ve been mostly absent from this concern but a bunch of folks who I respect have vocally advocated for FF for years. This is the proverbial chickens coming home to roost. Given the performance of the browser over the last half decade, this hasn’t been a question or issue for me for a very long time.
2. Hey! Guess what? Apple even hates its own hardware now. How long do you need to get everything completely wrong before smart people start jumping ship. Apple is lucky since they’ve been actively opposing your rights as a user for long enough that the Ouroboros manuever isn’t altogether surprising.
3. You can actually buy the Google Coral board now. Well, you can pre-order it.
4. An article about gaming on FreeBSD seems absurd enough for a weekend link dump. You can play games on FreeBSD but most of them are ancient. Linux is doing slightly better on this front in case you were wondering.
vermaden
Hi,
author of Oldschool Gaming on FreeBSD here.
I generally agree with you that ‘gaming’ is easier/better on Linux then on FreeBSD but its not that bad as you can ‘imagine’ from mine article, its just that I prefer older games 🙂
Check these about ‘modern’ gaming on FreeBSD:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfvbyWGkRW0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lLs3JxezBM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLNuRwLm2FI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuj9pRNR2oM
https://github.com/SteamOnFreeBSD/SteamOnFreeBSD
https://github.com/shkhln/linuxulator-steam-utils
Hope that helps.
Regards.
goneaway
Hi there! Thanks for all of the clue about the state of more modern games running on FreeBSD. It seems like the BSD ecosystem is improving more rapidly than I knew. I’m guessing OpenBSD probably isn’t 🙂
Thanks again for the comment. I’m looking at the SteamOnFreeBSD repo right now perhaps with evil plans for one of the spare machines I have sitting around.