Steam For FREEBSD

[(SAD)Gsnake]

Hi i am just wondering if there is ever going to be steam coming out for BSD Freebsd or OpenBSD there are some of us out there that use FreeBSD just take a look at PCBSD.
Graphics support has really imporved with AMD and NVIDIA so can anyone shed some light if steam will be ported to freebsd

[Ashley]

I don't really see it happening, I think Steam for Linux was something Valve saw as necessary to push this "Steam Universe" stuff.

I don't have anything against FreeBSD but from what I hear if they get their Linux compatibility up to par then there wouldn't be much of a need for a FreeBSD port.

Sorry I couldn't be more helpful!

[(SAD)Gsnake]

Yea i see your point here and yes There is linux support in freebsd that needs to get up to bar which is getting there.

[GameBeast]

Since Linux and *BSD are POSIX compliant, it might be possible to run Steam for Linux on *BSD. I'm not sure though, but you could try it.

[Mr_Gatto]

If Steam has been written with POSIX compatibility in mind, well maybe.
POSIX doesn't necessary mean *nix though, Plan9 had compatilility layer, so as z/OS.
Believe it or not, even many Windows XX have some compatilility layer in Ultimate or Enterprise editions

[SUSEd]

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/03/17/linuxapps.html

[DIRT]

BSD does have a linux compatibility layer (think wine except this one actually works reliably) so I imagine with a little bit of hacking it could be done as long as you have drivers for your video card.

[[Linux]sulman]

Drivers are no problem, really - Nvidia already support FreeBSD.

It would need the libraries updating though - FreeBSD uses an older set of Linux libraries. It may happen, but it will take a while.

I love the BSD's. They're a well-structured delight, and as servers they're wonderful.

[(SAD)Gsnake]

Well i'm sure it will happen i just can't wait i love BSD

[Tux9656 (FreeBSD 14.0)]

I just wish Nvidia drivers could be install on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD. It's a great system. I would love to try out some gaming on it.

[CeDeROM]

+1 for Steam Client on FreeBSD!!! Waiting for years already!!

[The_Abortionator]

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥'s full eredeti hozzászólása:

BSD does have a linux compatibility layer (think wine except this one actually works reliably) so I imagine with a little bit of hacking it could be done as long as you have drivers for your video card.

Well the fact people are using wine to play ♥♥♥♥ tons of games on Linux and BSD can't even reliably run Linux games/programs it seems your take is literally backwards.

[The_Abortionator]

No, its not happening. Not only is there no market share but the hardware support is next to non existent.

I bought an AM% system with a 7900xt when they were new and Linux ran just fine on it, gaming and all.

Can you even run BSD on this machine?

[target_changelevel]

The_Abortionator eredeti hozzászólása:

No, its not happening. Not only is there no market share but the hardware support is next to non existent.

Windows users said the same about Linux.
FreeBSD is as good for games as Linux or Windows.

[CeDeROM]

The_Abortionator eredeti hozzászólása:

No, its not happening. Not only is there no market share but the hardware support is next to non existent.

I bought an AM% system with a 7900xt when they were new and Linux ran just fine on it, gaming and all.

Can you even run BSD on this machine?

What are you talking about? The same PC can be used to run BSD, Linux, and Windows! It is up to the user to provide hardware powerful enough to run a specific title (just as on Windows).

BSD is quite often ahead of time and competitors use BSD licensed solutions unnoticed (license allows that).

For your information Playstation (3,4,5) runs on FreeBSD and it uses cutting edge AMD chipsets (only PS3 used PowerPC architecture) ;-)

BSD is quite conservative and kind of resistant to "enforced changes" with long term maintenance in mind. To be honest BSD build would not really differ from Linux or macOS (it is Mach+BSD).. except it should be even esier to maintain :-)

When there is a push for multimedia there will be a development in this area :-)