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Linspire To Run Windows Games

Posted by Hemos on from the good-move dept.

Ken writes "Aviran's Place reports that Linspire and TransGaming released Cedega for the Linspire desktop Linux operating system, allowing Linspire users to play hundreds of popular Windows-format games right out of the box."

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  1. Cedega and "Out of the box" in the same sentence!? by cybereal · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Oh come now. Just try to install Warcraft III with Cedega.

    I'm serious, that's the only game I was really hoping to play with Cedega when I tried it out. It flopped hard core, yet, WC3 is on their list of supported games with a flag indicating that it is playable.

    Lies.

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  2. Re:That's What They Said in the First Place by AKAImBatman · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Robertson didn't know what he was talking about. He'd seen WINE in action, and assumed that it was close to being a complete replacement for Windows. He then went on to include it with Lindows and promised the world that he'd be Windows compatible. Somewhere along the line he learned the horrible truth (Win32 is an ugly, broken, and complex moving target) and backed off his claims.

    Unfortunately, this left Lindows in a bit of a lurch because it was less secure than most Linux distributions, and only had its application repository to carry it. My guess is that the Microsoft vs. Lindows lawsuit was what kept them on the map. Without all the press, it's posslble they would have languished into obscurity. Since then, the renamed Linspire has been slowly building back up to Windows compatibility.

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  3. Re:Windows just isn't that expensive by mrchaotica · · Score: 5, Interesting
    1. I build all my own desktops, and my laptop is a Mac. Hence, I don't already have a copy of Windows.
    2. Windows is not cheap; it's ~$200 retail.
    3. Even if I wanted to spend the money, I sure as hell don't want to sell my soul to the Windows Activation scheme!
    4. Why should I have to reboot my desktop -- which has an uptime of several months -- just to play a game?
    5. Actually, some games run faster under Wine than they do natively. Besides, as long as it's "fast enough" I don't really care if it could be a little faster on Windows.
    6. The way to combat the illegal bundling isn't to bend over and take it, but to refuse to submit.
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