BSD & Gaming

Yes you heard right Star Trek Online is now FREE to Play! [LINK]

There are differences between Gold (subscribers) and Silver (Free Accounts), get the details on the F2P Charts. [LINK]

Klingons, Humans, Ferengi, Vulcans, and Bajorans, oh my!

Download the game for Free! [LINK]

Just released, PC-BSD 9.0 [Isotope Edition] go get it now!!

PC-BSD 9.0 changes include the following:

• Based upon FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE
• Support for installing a variety of Window Managers, such as KDE, GNOME, XFCE, LXDE and more!
• Improved networking utilities, including wifi quick-connect
• Support for UFS+Journaling out of box
• New graphical boot options page
• Improved PBI system, allows library sharing, binary diff updating, custom repositories, digital signing and more!
• Support for “freebsd-update” via the System Update GUI
• Enhanced “Life-Preserver” utility for doing off-site rsync backups of user data.

Read the release notes here – [LINK]
Download your free copy here – [LINK]
Download via BitTorrent here – [LINK]

(For a full list of changes in this release refer to the changelog.)

I’m still alive and kicking, just took some time off for xmas & new years. I’ll get back on track soon, thanks for hanging in there! Hope everyone had a great holiday!

Last year I stated [link] the disappointment of Fallout 3 from 2008 left me in no hurry to pick up a copy of  New Vegas. The initial reviews for FO3:NV looked promising but that quickly changed with a barrage of negativity about the game’s technical problems. To make things worse, I also had an aging computer setup that would have left me running the game on mid-level or low end graphics settings, yet one more reason buying this game quickly got filed under the “why bother” category for me.

…Fast forward one year and mix in a new pc.. Booyah Babuh! FO3:NV rocks like nobody’s business! Since I took forever to get my hands on a copy, it appears the developers had time to patch all the technical issues everyone complained about. So far I have had zero problems. The quality of the storyline and general content of FO3:NV is ridiculously better than Bethesda’s work on Fo3, it really shines with competent story telling from Obsidian Entertainment. I would love to have seen what these guys could have come up with for the Capital Wasteland, I imagine it would have been light years better than anything Bethesda squeezed out.

Naturally it still wouldn’t be a great PC Game without a lot of mods from the community to make it ever so much better, stock games are usually bland at best.

Just watched the new episode “Heart of Archness” and it was pure awesome! I was in kind of a crappy mood but this was the light moment I needed, go watch and have a laugh.

The new game coming out for linux based OS’s  and Mac OS X called Oil Rush looks like a lot of fun! It is currently in beta testing and if you want to pre-order you can have instant access according to their web page.  The graphics look really good and that’s a huge treat since most games playable on something other than windows look like they escaped from 1982.

While PC-BSD (FreeBSD) is not specifically supported chances are it will run just fine if you have the required hardware and drivers setup. Unfortunately my system is old enough that is doesn’t quite meet the minimum requirements, bummer. Even though it might not work on BSD or my system may be too slow, I’m considering buying it anyway just to help out game developers that support alternative platforms. Hell the current pre-order price is only $19.99 and I’ve wasted more than that on a bad meal dining out.

If you are a BSD gamer and like real-time strategy games you should check it out !  [LINK]

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August 2011 BSD Magazine is now available! Go to http://www.bsdmag.org and download your free copy.

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The April Issue Articles Include:

• Interview with Dru Lavigne

• Why You Use FreeBSD Just May Start With A ‘Z’

• OpenBSD improves upon /etc/rc.d/

• DragonFly News

• Package Management for the upcoming PC-BSD 9

• Converting a Physical Partition with FreeBSD to a vmware Image

• Build appliances with QEMU and OpenBSD

• Drupal on FreeBSD part 5

• Mutt On OS X part 2

• Realtime Weather Data EMWIN on FreeBSD

• Benchmarking Different Kind of Storage

• Content Management Made Easy The Open Source Way!

Get it fresh off the press by going to BSDMag.Org for your free copy now.

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The new 4.0 series of Firefox for FreeBSD is now available as a PBI for PC-BSD users.

Use your software update tool or download the push button installer from here – [LINK]

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The handbook for PC-BSD v8.2  is now available for download in the EPUB format as well as html, odt, and pdf.

Download the handbook here – [ LINK ]

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