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IBM Germany Leaving Vista for Linux
UltimaGuy writes "During a presentation on IBM's involvement with Open Source, Andreas Pleschek from IBM in Stuttgart, Germany, who heads open source and Linux technical sales across North East Europe for IBM made a very interesting statement..."Andreas Pleschek also told that IBM has cancelled their contract with Microsoft as of October this year. That means that IBM will not use Windows Vista for their desktops. Beginning from July, IBM employees will begin using IBM Workplace on their new, Red Hat-based platform. Not all at once - some will keep using their present Windows versions for a while. But none will upgrade to Vista." "
I really wish I could be cool like you
My posts are definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate.
I realise the PC business is being sold, but I imagine IBM internally uses IBM-style PCs and I hazard that this might well continue on to Leveno PCs. If they're all moving to Linux, then the hardware must support that.
Cheers,
Ian
OMG, you mean it was posted somewhere else within 24 hours prior.... OMG it might as well be a year ago now.
The phrase "more better" is acceptable English. suck it grammar Nazis
I thought that IBM sold their desktop unit, so who's machines are they putting Linux on?
Thanks to file sharing, I purchase more CDs
Thanks to the RIAA, I buy them used...
it isn't always just the fact that you can't play the game on linux, as with cedega you can usually get the more popular and older titles to run under it... the problem is that video driver support is terrible under linux still, especially with ATI cards. This means that if you can get the game to play without graphical glitches at all it will still be about 15-20 frames per second slower than the windows counterpart. This is a huge deal because if you're only getting like 30fps in a game such as FEAR or Call of Duty 2 with all the nice details then you will HAVE to turn the graphical detail down a bunch to get back those 15-20 fps you lost from running via reverse engineering on Linux OpenGL drivers. It should also be noted that since most developers are still using DirectX 9.0, OpenGL has not been heavily invested in acceleration for consumer class cards (unlike workstation cards) and so you can say that this is also part of the reason the Linux drivers are slower than their Windows counterpart (along with the fact that they just don't tune/optimize the Linux driver as much-- Cedega I'm sure is not in the forefront of their mind either-- or release as often).
If you are into games like World of Warcraft, such as the 6 million people worldwide that they boast, then maybe you'd rather have 40-50 fps in areas with many players/monsters/effects than 10-15fps (which is fairly difficult to play with in combat, especially PvP)...
Strategy or RTS games like Civilization IV or LOTR:Battle for Middle Earth 2 are not FPS/action type games but they still have far less problems being run on a Windows machine due to the aforementioned compatibility/driver issues, and gamers would still prefer to run them on an OS/driver platform that can max out their graphics subsystem.
I'm not knocking consoles, they're cool for what they are... but (exclusive platform) titles on the PC offer differing gameplay experiences that you will be hard pressed to find on the console, or are vastly superior due to the input systems available. For example, Half-Life 2 is just plain easier to learn to play for most PC gamers on a mouse and keyboard than going to an arcade in Japan and relearning how to play using a weird joystick setup.
Demanding that people play less games or play your system of choice is not the way to win anyone over to your viewpoint.