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Microsoft designed its own Windows operating system ontop of DOS because they are a bunch of cheap bastards that think compatibility with the old DOS-mode 1980's WordProcessors and cruddy SVGA programs and games is a feature and Microsoft implies stability in their advertizing, but dump any promise of stability in their End User License Agreement. Linux is the opposite, but simply can't guaruntee stability on certain combinations of hardware. I must admit that the latest batch of discension among newly converted-to-Linux users can be credited to RedHat. RedHat deserves a pat on their back. Mandrake too for following RedHat closely as they took the long walk off the short bridge...a pat on the back for losing any "won-over people" because RedHat chose to corrupt the Linux building block mechanism by using GCC version 2.96!

Do you know how many tech support problems I help answer on www.linuxquake.com/messageboard are from RedHat and Mandrake users? I find it hillarious that Mandrake based their 8.x releases on RedHat's 7.x releases. Sure it is stable to a certain point; but I can't overlook that RedHat killed alot of people's ideals of what a Linux operating system could do for them because by using GCC over version 2.95, many programs, like the simple yet convenient MPlayer, have a difficult time compiling with certain optimizations. Thankyou RedHat for using GCC 2.96 and thankyou Mandrake for being a mirror image of RedHat's crusty ass.

The point is this... When I tried RedHat 5.2 over 2.5 years ago, I was impressed. I was impressed becaus my measely non-MMX Pentium 150MHz computer /with 48MB of RAM got some deserved stability and bugfixes as opposed to Microsoft Windows 95. That old computer /with RedHat Linux 5.2 proved to me a better edu-tainment tool than Microsoft Windows of any release, and I enjoyed fast and stable multi-tasking. Thanks goto RedHat for their earlier works. My old computer, to date, can be found at my local computer-equipment preservation archive, buried under 7 billion tons of landfill. Now that RedHat has the greatest software to work with, they fucked up their distro's build. The 7.x series is bad. In numerology, 7 is supposedly a magic number for perfection. RedHat demonstrated such perfection. RedHat demonstrated poor leadership and management in their release and have lost my advocacy for their product. Also, I never liked the name of their company because it instilled the thoughts of a "Russian American's" Linux(Red Commy bastards). I now advocate SuSe Linux Professional edition version 7 simply because that distro is automated better than RedHat's 7.x distro, includes more software and better documentation for the same cost as RedHat's distro, and because SuSe was built using GCC version 2.95.2; which means it retains Linux as the most stable desktop to date.

However, I advocate SuSe for regular family users. My desktop system, on the other hand, was built under plan of LinuxFromScratch and I wouldn't dare install any other modern-ized distro on it. All the Linux distros are too bloated and will overwhelm my computer's harddrive. I can care less about eye-candy, but I advocate SuSe to families just because of the modern eye-candy and its stability and large applications selection. However, though I advocate SuSe for making such a greate distro, their installer is real nice and offers 100% installation of all their software easily and efficiently at only 6 GB. You heard me correctly, six gigabytes! SuSe is a nice distro and they must be installing six gigabytes of something good. How does it compare with Microsoft Windows and Mac OSX? BLOATED! My favorite distro offers you to install BLOAT, but it doesn't have to be that way... Still, there is that little twitch in the end-user's brain that says he needs 100% installed and this is what he gets, 6GB of bloat!

What this means to someone migrating from MS Windows is alot of stability(pun intended). If you know what Operating system is stable, easy to use, has a nice file-managing GUI, a beautiful desktop, and is really stable and compiles programs perfectly, then the MS Windows users WILL convert to that operating system in a heartbeat! Software is software and they see something new, fun, and pretty! When they discover it offers a large list of commercial games and free games, they'll wallow in stable-happiness bliss.

I just got back from Fry's electronics and saw a Mac OSX box with a kernel crash from darwin due to a memory access exception, I saw a Microsoft Windows XP laptop frozen, and approximately 18 yards from that heard of desktop extravaganza was the row of commercial Unix software exhibits: sporting Yellow Dog Linux, RedHat Linux 7.x, SuSe Linux 7.x, Kandara Linux, freeBSD and its PowerPak, and Mandrake Linux 8.x. Do I dare offer my assistance to a sailsman and a small audience of 17 people on the installation and administration of Linux on a PowerPC, a Sony VAIO, and an Athlon-based desktop? I think I'll try offering some guidance next time I'm in there. I'm at Fry's electronics once a week to buy something anyways, so while I have 3 hours to blow, I can have fun with a stable OS teaching everyone the basics, like...

use an eMail client,
use Netscape and Mozilla,
use Gnome's and KDE's file manager,
why the file system is the way it is,
howto manage users,
howto setup a printer and share it with other Linux users,
howto integrate Linux with Microsoft Windows computers using SAMBA,
howto share files and printers with Microsoft Windows users,
howto download, compile and install new programs from sourcecode,
howto use a gui to manipulate a tar, tard'gzipd', and a tar'bzip2'd file and benefit,

And of'course tell them and demonstrate conclusively why and where Microsoft has lied to them about Linux, virii, and about Microsoft software on their website.

-oh wait, that's what they learned just to use Microsoft Windows! That must mean the average Microsoft Windows user has a brain and knows the basics of computers already! Now they just need help with some Unix primitives and be able to trust a free operating system for their daily tasks and they're set...

There seems to be one or two ac's running amok and posting messages that Mr. Carmack is shit, and that there is nothing that he can do to improve anything.

Annoying ac, you are an ass. Carmack is good at what he does (3d game engines), and has many years of experience coding. Could it be that *gasp* he can code other things as well? Perhaps even do a great job?

Besides, the article on the shack is a replay from an email that sCary sent to Gabe, who said that Yahn talked to John. That means that 1) John said something to Yahn 2)Yahn repeated that to Gabe 3)Gabe wrote a short reply to sCary's email 4)sCary posted it on the shack. Fourth hand information should not even be discussed in anything other than a passing conversation.

It is certainly nothing to argue about. Now enough posting, I'm off to play TFC. Look for me on the LinuxQuake.com TFC server, and remember, saying th3 Bl00 t34m 0wNz j00! in anything but a jest will result in at least 10 spies hunting your ass down for the whole game.

I'd just like to point out that my post on Linuxquake.com was in no way meant to flame Id, and if you read we in no way say that this isn't normal. I'm just wondering why its not mentioned in the EULA?

Judecca

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I'd just like to point out that my post on Linuxquake.com was in no way meant to flame Id, and if you read we in no way say that this isn't normal. I'm just wondering why its not mentioned in the EULA?

Judecca

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I picked this up searching for TNT/Quake info on linuxquake.com.

" Version 1.4.1 (pre-release) of SVGALib has been released. Why should you care? This version adds some important support for nVida and SIS drivers. I recommend this to TnT(2) users when it is released in final form. "

I assume it means a person can run Quake2 in console mode like with a Voodoo2. Has anyone tried it?

Ya!

It looks real Cool!. Hope everyone remembers to bring quality news and stuff and not just stop at the cool looks!

Rock on linuxgames & linuxquake!
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