Slashdot: BSDNews for nerds, stuff that mattersCrossOver Games for FreeBSD- April 21, 2008 An anonymous reader writes "Jeremy White from CodeWeavers has made the announcement that an experimental build of CrossOver Games is now available for PC-BSD users. However, this unsupported edition should also work on FreeBSD or DesktopBSD, allowing users to play Windows games on their desktop. The FreeBSD version of CrossOver Games can be downloaded here (registration required)." From the attached notes: "Remember this is an experimental build! If you are on FreeBSD 6.x, you will need to...http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotBsd/~3/274413279/article.pl OpenSolaris Boot Support For ZFS Root FS on x86 and SPARC- April 20, 2008 Derkjan de Haan writes "I am glad to see progress is being made on the the ability of OpenSolaris to boot from a ZFS filesystem: 'This putback provides the ability to boot the Solaris Operating System from a ZFS root file system on both x86 and SPARC platforms. Full ZFS boot and install support will be available in a subsequent build. Because of the phased putback, we recommend waiting for the full boot and install support rather than attempting to use the ZFS boot features separately.'"Read...http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotBsd/~3/274199038/article.pl |