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Ubuntu 7.10 "Gutsy Gibbon" Is Out
Many readers are sending the news that Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon has been released. Download options include mirrors and torrents. Wired has a review based on the release candidate: "Gamers and hardcore media hounds may still feel left out... but we found playing music and watching movies in the new Ubuntu to be every bit as pleasant as it is under OS X or Windows... Wi-Fi, printing, my digital camera and even my iPod all worked immediately after installation — no drivers or other software required... I did have to install additional codecs to get MP3 and Windows Media Audio support."
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I'm not really a Linux user but I was building a tivo box and the /. talk on Ubuntu spurred me to give it a shot (I like it a lot). I saw how much easier it is to install remotes in Gusty than in Feisty (not as terminal heavy, a preference thing). But how easy is it to get digital cable boxes integrated and working? I have digital cable and getting that working is a big thing for me.
I think I've got everything in Feisty where it needs to be but I just have to bum the coax to test if it works tonight. Otherwise, I'll have to try to figure it out. There's the guide on adding the DCT700 remote but it looks like I'll have to use the Comcast remote and I'd rather use the MCE remote that came with the Hauppauge card (thinking beyond Comcast).
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It depends on the games. If you want to run the newest stuff then yeah, you're kinda stuck. For older games there are a number of options.
- For DOS games DOSBox is an easy solution. Should work every time.
- For Windows games you've got WINE. If your game doesn't work then the next port of call is...
- Virtualisation. Set up a virtual machine, install Windows, and run your games from there. Speed is an issue, but if you're running a newish multi-core CPU then I would imagine it isn't such a problem (unfortunately my Ubuntu box runs off a Sempron 3100+ so I can't test that theory myself). In any case even on my rather modest machine I can run Win9x-era games without much trouble. Obviously the drawback is that you need to own Windows in order to install it on the virtual machine - but anyone who's owned a PC in the last 12 year has a copy of Windows at their disposal. At an idealogical level it's not much of a solution since you need to own Windows, but from a practical standpoint it can be very useful for a large subset of games. At the very least, "booting" to the Windows desktop in 10 seconds while still have ready access to your Linux desktop sure as hell beats dual-booting.
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In other words, you're too lazy to dual-boot (or don't know how?), so you stay on Windows all the time just in case you might want to play a game -- every day or so.
Also, there are games which work fine on Linux. You've chosen a couple that don't.
What's really confusing, though, is that you're worried about DirectX 10. Keep in mind, most games don't support it, and Windows XP doesn't support it. With all we've been hearing about Vista, you'd really rather run Vista than Linux?
What I do: The games I can play on Linux, I play on Linux. Then, once a month, I go to a LAN party and boot Windows. At work, I run Windows most of the time, due to having to run a few Windows apps almost all the time -- yet I do still actually have a good reason for virtualizing it, as soon as I get around to it.
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You mean it would be nice if the manufacturer of your hardware media player made sure it worked on the computer you use?
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