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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 ...
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.
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)'
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.