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Old 4th August 2008
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Actually, I just read on Wikipedia that the GM965 works with FreeBSD 7.0.
Me also, long ago.

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When did you try?
Half year ago, with 7.0-RELEASE, 3 months ago with 7-STABLE snapshot, about 2 weeks ago with 8-CURRENT snapshot.

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I like OpenSolaris but the lack of audio is kind of a showstopper. Oh well. I'm holding out hope for FreeBSD. I really want to run it.
Lack of what?

Mate, OpenSolaris uses open source OSS4, (FreeBSD also uses OSS, but its own implementation) and sound on OpenSolaris is even better then on Linux (all these useless layers).

glxgears of X3000 a Ubuntu 8.10: 1430-1500 FPS
glxgears of X3000 a OpenSolaris 2008.05: 1530-1580 FPS
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