freebsd for windows PC games

[K Anderson]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gloryjoy Ga-ang" <gloryjoyg at yahoo.com>
To: <freebsd-questions at FreeBSD.org>
Sent: Monday, September 19, 2005 12:36 AM
Subject: freebsd for windows PC games


> Hi
>
> I am presently using windows XP as my OS using a LAN
> and I want to switch to Freebsd, but I have a few
> questions regarding the compatibility of the OS with
> windows PC games? Can I still run those games even if
> I am using the freebsd OS? If not, are there any more
> alternatives to run those PC games, and can those
> games run smoothly? (especially the multiplayer games)..
>
No. Well not really no, but something close to it.
 There's a port called wine that allows you to run a limited set of Windows 
applications. There is also a subscription based version of wine that meets 
with some success in running Windows applications.

The next thing would be vmware. That would allow you to have FreeBSD 
installed then install a secondary OS within vmware and thus Windows runs 
from that.

There were a couple other bits of software just previously mentioned either 
this week or the previous week, you could go through the archives of this 
list.