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Review of Linux Gaming Using WineX 2.0
Ceyx writes "Toms Hardware ist running an Interesting review of DirectX Gaming under Linux using WineX. An interesting point is that the native Quake3 Arena runs faster with Linux then with windows." I had the good luck to play Jedi Knight Outcast and Return To Castle Wolfenstein at my friend's house, and it was really pretty good. The numbers show just how good the Linux drivers from nVidia are, so mad props to Mark V and his co-workers ...
Now if I can just stop dancing to the music first...
I've got to click *14 times* to get the full article? What's wrong with those people?
Does anyone actually have the energy and motivation to click 14 times to read an article, no matter how interesting?
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In communist Russia they would have only had one operating system... RED hat! Ok maybe that was too lame.
RTF doesn't work for everything. I don't think that RTF has linked footnotes for example. Where I work, education, every document has about 3 footnotes per page on average. If I switched them to rtf, they'd lose the autonumbering. Wine or SO/OO is the only way to go for these documents.
But you are right about the "legacy documents" problem. It exists on all platforms and is a problem for windows users as well. We have people who wrote textbooks in wordperfect 5.1 that have literally thousands of footnotes, are over a thousand pages long, use master documents, and have extensive formatting and design considerations. It is actually easier to let them continue to work in 5.1 for as long as it works than it is to switch them over.
Come to think of it, many of our users would be happy to move to linux if it meant that dosemu would let them use the wordperfect they are all familiar with. But that is just our older faculty, the ones who were early adopters of technology 10 years ago. The younger ones are more likely to use office xp.
Whoah! Whoah! Whoah!
.41.34.12 release on sourceforge.
"I don't know why this solution isn't being offered to companies."
Probably because it is stupid. I hate to say it that way but you need to get out from behind your computer every once in awhile and talk to real people in real businesses. Before I rant a little further about your post, let me go on record as saying that I do agree with your rationale that companies that are trying to embrace the Linux community by coming up with what I call "switch" programs are doing nothing but detracting from Linux. That however, isn't the biggest detractor, there are others such as ease of use, installs, setups, and business centric applications that are more than just a
I speak to different companies everyday in my profession and telling someone they can use a bash script to convert word documents isn't going to make them go, "Yeah let's switch to Linux". Epecially given the fact they will need to take Windows off of ALL of their computers and install Linux, learn a new office suite, throw away key pieces of software which are vital to their business like PDF generation, contact management, accounting, and audio/media tools. This is not something a company is going to embrace! It is very easy to say what you gain but comanies are more interested in WHAT THEY LOOSE.
Here is how I see it. The open source community seems to be very good at producing what I call "protocol" driven applications. Why, well because there is a "plan" laid out for them to follow. If you deviate far from this analogy you will see there isn't much out there for a business or end-user to use in a production environment. Let me clariy "product environment". By that I mean, install it and get to work. I know somebody right now is thinking Openoffice. And you know what, the open source community didn't develop it, it was GIVEN to the open source community for us to improve on and make better. I challenge you to easily take a firewire supported camera and make your own DVD. I guarantee you cannot without pointing me to a 40 page howto.
Somebody mentioned the very simple task of playing DVDs on Linux above in a post. He had somewhat of a long rant (similiar to this one) about all of the ins and outs of how hard it actually is to get a DVD player to work in Linux. And of course some idiot posted "oh, use vidoelan.org, don't you feel stupid?". I wanted to smack the guy that posted that because evidently he didn't read between the fine lines. There ARE players out there, but it takes a degree in Physics and 3 weeks to get them to work. That is the "1 degree of separation" that separates Linux from being excepted in the mainstream, ease of installation and use.
-ZorKa
"With enough memory and hard drive space, anything in life is possible!"
Hello, whatever moderator was on crack and moderated that offtopic.
It was a post to help people whose WineX (you know, the software the article is about!) get their WineX (there it is again!) back up and running!!
The don't dominate the desktop market just because they provide easy solutions. So does Apple, but they are barely worth mentioning, big picture-wise. Is there hope due to the UNIX underpinings of Mac OS X? Maybe, that entirely depends on the market. The vast majority of consumers don't understand or care about the benefits of UNIX. Factors such as cost keep Apple far in the background. Low cost (relatively), features, and ease of use keep Microsoft far in the foreground.
The idea that "what these companies need to realize is that they can convert their old files into plain text files" might seem simple to the drooling UNIX masses, but it is an idea akin to suggesting that NIS is good enough for all your user authentication needs on your network. If you don't care about security, sure it might be. If you don't mind using technology from 1984-1987 because you just don't trust that newfangled technology in more recent technology, then maybe plain ol' text is the way to go. Unfortunately, the rest of the world has moved on, and plain ol' text is not good enough.
Where Linux will gain is in replacing Windows. If I could replace the gaming functions of Windows, I'd very much considering eliminating M$ from my world. Until I can replace those functions, i.e., DirectX, then Linux serves a role but can't meet every need. This is a victory for Linux.
perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5, (41*2), sqrt(7056), (unpack(c,H)-2), oct(115), 10)'
Resorting to text is rediculous, you would lose all of the non-text content, images, graphics, table of contents... I use Open Office. It does a VERY good job of importing MS word docs.
I also use Gnumeric, which brings in excel just fine. and Open Office also brings in power point. Abiword is good for a quick peek at word docs but doesn't do a good job on the import, yet. Open Office also reads excel but Gnumeric does such a good job I rarely use OO for this.
I know, you think I am exagerating. Well download Open Office (onto your win 32 machine if you must) and open the most complex word doc you have.
www.openoffice.org
I think the reason that corps don't use linux on the desk is that $1000 per worker for productivity software is not all that much. Getting them all to switch to different software (even if its better) would cause a lot of problems. Small companies might be more inclined to use Gnu since they don't get volume licensing and they don't have heaps of cash.
And another thing, anyone crazy enough to chuck a good Solaris database server for a Linux one needs to have their head examined (IMHO).
Why do people mod comments like this down. This particular comment, in my opinion, could start a good discussion concerning "the need to bring linux to the masses." Moderation is designed to make for interesting reading, not to hide the opinions that do not coincide with your own.
I completely agree with the above poster. Not everyone in the world needs linux. Accordingly, not every linux user needs Windows.
I can only assume I'm either being mod-bombed, or two of you are just plain idiots. Why exactly is this a "troll"? It cannot even be remotely called as such. It's a simple observation on which I wanted input of other people in the /. community. Now I won't get it because nobody will read it.
Slashdot moderators need some accountability. Meta-mod doesn't do it.
Why bother.