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Gabe writes "Looks like the NWN linux client page has been updated with screenshots!.
Finally, some decent proof that Bioware is coming through for us linux folks. Maybe it's time to open my copy soon :)" My replacement CPU fan is here,
so I theoretically can now play NWN. Can't wait for the good modules to start
being developed. In the meantime, we should use it as the prettiest IRC
server ever... where you can kill your friends instead of just kickbanning
them :)
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You have to turn on accept pop up windows for it to work in opera.
Little old lady sues airline for strip searching her after their detection equipment picks up her pacemaker...
= Grow a brain...
Sorry...How did I get that in here?
= Grow a brain...
I have noticed over the past 3 years that people dont see the beauty of linux.
/usr/portage/net-im/gaim/gaim-0.59.ebuild /usr/portage/net-im/gaim/gaim-0.60.ebuild, and I then have gaim 0.60!
they know that its free and that its under a GPL licence and blah blah blah.
But they dont know how friendly linux can be.
It has everything you can think of.
It has games, the list is to long list, but thanks to transgaming.com the most popular games are working.
GTA3 and Warcraft III to name a few.
and how NWN.
Linux has amazing driver support, almost every video card I can think of is supported by xfree86.
Either with 2d support or 3d support with dri.
Nvidia makes drivers for linux that are better than the windows counterparts. Tomshardware.com has proved this in a couple of their benchmarks.
Chipsets, networkcards, soundcards, software/hardware RAID, tv-cards, EVERY THING is supported with linux
Linux also has the opensource advantage, if you dont like it, fix it.
for example, I have been using WindowMaker for years, its been great to me, but I have been noticing that kde has gotten better and better, but every time I try it I get annoyed because it didnt have a feature I wanted that Windowmaker had, I wanted to be able to shade and unshade windows by putting the mouse on the top bar and scrolling up and down. This feature was not included with kde3 so I never used it. So I was talking to some buddies of mine, and I mentioned that it sucked not having that feature, and with in 10 min, my buddy got the feature working with the latest cvs of KDE3. Here is the patch http://linux.darylstimm.com/kwin-wm.patch
Now kde 3 has everything that Windowmaker has plus tons more, and I can finally run KDE apps at the speed they were intended to be ran at. nothing worse than waiting 10 seconds for konq to load.
Kde3 and Gnome 2 are very very good for the newbie. I have my sister running kde 3 and she has no problems at all.
She loves it.
Linux also has great browsers, 3 years ago that was not the case, but currently I think they are better than IE. Mozilla and Konq look beautiful with Anti Alaised fonts, and tabbed browsing. I cant ask for anything more.
But one thing I do have to say, is that linux is only good if you have the right distro, a distro that can deliver uptodateness, stabity, ease of use and Speed. So far the only distro that I have found to do this is Gentoo Linux. Gentoo Linux is wonderful, its by far the fastest distro on the block, it compiles everything from source and downloads dependencies for you so you will never see dependency hell. It has very uptodate packages, if a program is released it normally takes gentoo 5 hours before its in gentoo due to the amount of users that gentoo has. And if for some reason its not in portage you can simply make your own ebuild (a ebuild is a bash script that tells portage how to compile the program and what dependencies it has).
So if Gaim 0.60 came out I could just cp
Just that easy!
No more waiting for redhat or debian to update and make packages.
Say you dont want to wait all day for gentoo linux to be installed, you can use their stage 3 packages, which is binary based and you can get everything installed very fast and easily.
there is nothing easier than emerge package to install a package.
Also Gentoo has grown so much its currently the biggest channel on irc.openprojects.net, even bigger than debian.
I dont recommend gentoo to people that dont have a p3 or higher and I dont recommend gentoo to newbies. But if I had to recommend a distro I would say Redhat Limbo 2 or Mandrake 9 beta 3, to the newbie and slackware to the person that has a slower system.
Linux also has openoffice, koffice, abiword, gnumeric, and tons of other Office type programs that can read and modify Microsoft doc files. and they are getting better and better.
With Winex and Wine we can finally start showing windows people the benifits of Linux, if the are suck using windows because one of their favorite apps doesnt work in linux, they can try wine or winex. most of the time you can get the program to run at native speeds, but I still recommend for users to try searching freshmeat.net for replacements of their favorite apps. because 9 times out of 10 linux already has something that will replace that windows app.
Linux has finally gotten some pretty good video and sound editing software, Cinelerra 1.0, audacity, Reborn 1.0 and many others.
Crossover makes it easy to use Quicken, IE, Office, and many others apps under linux. Word2000 opens faster than it does in windows.
Crossover also makes it easy to play quicktime and other non native linux codecs in your browser.
Xine and Mplayer are both working on Sorenson v1 (SVQ1)and SVQ3 support so we wont even need crossover. and Xine already has xine plugins for mozilla and konq. Xine and Mplayer also make very good dvd players.
ever want to back up your dvd to divx? now you can dvdrip is your new best friend, its a front end to transcode and will encode your dvds into near perfect divx quality. I have all my favorite movies backed up to 3 cds.
Anything else I could have missed? I dount it.. Linux has taken the world by storm and will continue to grow and evolove on the desktop.
And for those people that say the linux kernel sucks and that freebsd is so much better, just wait for 2.6...;-)
keanmarine.com
Where is the BeOS port they were promising 5 years ago...
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oh wait... http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/12/22/14202
Darn.
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wrong, wrong, WRONG!
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me play joke!
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