game machine based on FreeBSD?

[Luca Ferrari]

Hi all,
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).
Links and/or suggestions are welcome.

Thanks,
Luca

[Niklaas Baudet von Gersdorff]

Post by Luca Ferrari
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

[Priyadarshan]

Post by Luca Ferrari
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).

On Reddit there was a post not too long ago:

https://www.reddit.com/r/BSD/comments/4v62m1/steam_on_freebsd_11current/