I'd rather have the game on day 1 than wait for an installer. If you can get Linux running with 3d acceleration, then you can do a tar xvzf.
With any luck though, when Doom ships, most of these issues will have sorted themselves out. Loki will have an easy install-packager and we'll be able to run 3d games as easily in our favorite distro (Mandrake!) as in Windows.
We should use these these couple of years (I'm assuming Doom won't be out for a while) to prepare to make Doom the flagship Linux game that changes everything.
We are not breaking copyright because we are not trying to claim that their material is ours or anything close to that. The readers were engaged in a discussion of said material and any related issues that it raises. If discussing the legalities, morality and our own opinions of a copyrighted material is illegal, then Microsoft truly does run this country. Rick Terrill
This along with the precedent argument in the reply are, IMO, the best arguments NOT to remove the comments. This goes beyond the "law" and frivalous interpretations of copyright. It goes directly into the empowering force that is the Internet. We have to decide what kind of internet we want, and we must decide wether that's worth fighting for. My Internet is worth fighting for; I hope yours is too! Rick Terrill
There is no real difference between the OEM and retail version manufacturing-wise. The retail's are tested, thus guaranteed - meaning the OEMs are the same thing that hasn't been through a few CPU-hours at Intel. The Non-OC'able ones you are seeing are Cel's that were bought OEM by a reseller who then does their own testing. The ones that OC are sold at a higher price with an OC'able label. The ones that won't go above their stock speed (but perform 100% at that level) are dubbed non-OC'able for a lower price.
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I'd rather have the game on day 1 than wait for an installer. If you can get Linux running with 3d acceleration, then you can do a tar xvzf.
With any luck though, when Doom ships, most of these issues will have sorted themselves out. Loki will have an easy install-packager and we'll be able to run 3d games as easily in our favorite distro (Mandrake!) as in Windows.
We should use these these couple of years (I'm assuming Doom won't be out for a while) to prepare to make Doom the flagship Linux game that changes everything.
signed,
a long time id fan
Rick Terrill
We are not breaking copyright because we are not trying to claim that their material is ours or anything close to that. The readers were engaged in a discussion of said material and any related issues that it raises. If discussing the legalities, morality and our own opinions of a copyrighted material is illegal, then Microsoft truly does run this country. Rick Terrill
This along with the precedent argument in the reply are, IMO, the best arguments NOT to remove the comments. This goes beyond the "law" and frivalous interpretations of copyright. It goes directly into the empowering force that is the Internet. We have to decide what kind of internet we want, and we must decide wether that's worth fighting for. My Internet is worth fighting for; I hope yours is too! Rick Terrill
There is no real difference between the OEM and retail version manufacturing-wise. The retail's are tested, thus guaranteed - meaning the OEMs are the same thing that hasn't been through a few CPU-hours at Intel. The Non-OC'able ones you are seeing are Cel's that were bought OEM by a reseller who then does their own testing. The ones that OC are sold at a higher price with an OC'able label. The ones that won't go above their stock speed (but perform 100% at that level) are dubbed non-OC'able for a lower price.