New to FreeBSD

[Sphex]

Been searching for the past couple months for a operating system to somewhat replace windows and I ran across FreeBSD. The OS looks to be really nice and community seems to be pretty good too. I am not new to linux and know FreeBSD is more like unix.

What I would like to do is install FreeBSD as my main OS then install VMware to run windows in just for gaming and use FreeBSD for everything else. I would like to announce to the community that I am here and going to give it a shot. �e

 

[renice]

I think there is a port for vmware but I'm not sure. The preferred way for virtualisation under FreeBSD is VirtualBox at this moment.

 

[SirDice]

There is a vmware port (emulators/vmware3) but it's really old and doesn't work to good. emulators/virtualbox seems to work pretty good.

 

[renice]

But on the other side it's pretty good to have a FreeBSD as guest in vmware running under Windows.

 

[SPlissken]

I don't think that you could play 3D windows game with window on vmware.
You should try wine for window game instead.
But welcome on BSD world, a fantastic world

 

[estrabd]

welcome!

 

[wonslung]

I think you're better off doing a dual boot set up if you want to do gaming.

 

[LateNiteTV]

check out this thread for gaming: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=723