FreeBSD LAN Party, and some Ekam work

My weekend was mostly consumed by a LAN party. And the most interesting part: I used FreeBSD exclusively for the whole party.

Games that ran natively:

• Quake (darkplaces port)
  

Games that completely worked under Wine:

• Duke Nukem 3D (xDuke port)
  
• Alien Swarm
  
• StarCraft 2
  
• Unreal Tournament 2004*
  
• Unreal Tournament 3*
  

Games that ran but had significant problems under Wine:

• Left 4 Dead 2: Disconnected after a random time period claiming that the server could not authenticate me with Steam. Bug 23286, still undiagnosed.
  
• Team Fortress 2*: Fonts in configuration windows did not render. However, in-game fonts rendered fine, so the game was playable after copying over my configs from a Windows installation. Bug 19522, also undiagnosed.
  

Games that did not run at all under Wine:

• none
  

I'm seriously considering running the game stations in my future house on FreeBSD (or Linux) so that I can customize them better (and avoid paying for Windows).

* Games that I installed and tested, but were not played at the party.

Ekam work

I did spend some time working on Ekam, but it was mostly refactoring. Nothing interesting to report. (I should have it working on Linux and OSX soon, though.)