I just signed up and am very happy. The emulation is flawless, sound is perfect, my logitech rumblepad if fully supported. For ~$10 a month its a great deal. Even my wife uses it to play Dig Dug and Pac man. Most of the arcade and system games download in about a minute. I waited 45 minutes for Heros of Might and Magic III. Once it is downloaded it is cached on your system so you don't have to keep downloading it.
Being able to play Kings Quest I and Zaxxon is too cool.
You had a rough time with Slackware 10 and so you have given up on Linux all together if I understand the gist of your post.
Perhaps a newer, more cutting edge distribution would have been a better choice. Fedora Core 3 and Gentoo come to mind.
The fact is there are a lot of people who use Linux for everyday work and it can easily replace a Windows or Mac system. In my opinion Gnome 2.8 is there today - it is just as usable as Windows XP or Mac OS X
I agree with you in that mainstream Linux distributions are not ready to replace Tivo, however I don't think that is the goal of most distributions.
People building MythTV setups are not doing on Linux because its easy and Wizard driven. They are doing it for the challenge and the customization. Sounds like you weren't up to the challenge and gave up. I don't understand how you can blame Linux for that.
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I loved Space Hulk when I was younger but it has been out of print for a while. Gene Stealers and Space Machines on a re-configurable maze. When I saw Doom at my local mall my first thought was Space Hulk.
Doom is nearly identical to the core of Space Hulk. More weapons, more monsters, and more tile types is all.
Your an asshole. It's so trivial and you have how many products on the shelf? God sometimes I hate Slashdot between this AC post and the reaction to suprnova.org going down I am getting ill reading comments.
I see quite a few comments about "Now I am going to switch to Linux" or "I have been waiting for this for so long" and I got to thinking. What stopped you from using prior to this? It was available for download for ~30 dollars. I purchased it not only for its functionality but to support a Linux company.
I could have said Doom or Quake which both really freaked me out but the game that got into my head was Silent Hill 2 on the PS2. After a week of playing, I wouldn't play it at night. After another week I was dreaming about it. The tension, sounds, and imagery really disturbed me. I won't be playing Silent Hill 3:)
I also subscribe to slashdot, ars technica, and gamespot. I am one of the few who actually support good content. Please if you have put off subscribing - to any site - do so now. Show that you want good content. No flames about slashdots quality either - you know as well as I do you check this site multiple times a day!
I have this in original packaging with receipt ($55.00!) and the "Interstel Security Access Code Wheel". I found it half price books for $2. I agree that this was the most engaging game I ever played
Actually since Solaris 8 - a companion CD has been included. On it is all the GNU stuff, SAMBA, Apache (before it became a part of the default install), fvwm2, afterstep, KDE 2.0 and GNOME 1.0. All you had to do was install it. It wasn't installed by default but it was there.
I am running eMac, G4 750 MHz with 768 MB RAM. Its slow. I have freebsd installed on a Pentium 233 MHz with 32 MB RAM and it smokes OS X for interactive speed. But the slowness isn't overall and for everything. For example I can do video editing which works great but resizing my web browser seems sluggish. Rippin' CDs is really fast but opening a tcsh windows seems sluggish. Its wierd.
My wife loves KDE and Gnome but...
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We just finished setting up her new eMac. She was on RedHat 7.3 for about a week before giving up. She tried both KDE and GNOME. Her main problem? No decent printer drivers! She's an artist and all the printer drivers we tried for her HP 1220C sucked. Sure GIMP looks great on the screen but try to color correct and print out something identical - just didn't work for us. She loved KDE and all the little toys, hell she spend a day just tweaking her desktop! The main point of this post is for her printing is the killer app and it isn't there yet. She could take either desktop.
That is a great idea. I have been thus far just talking to people but I think handing out CD's and article printouts will work even better. I have brought up these and related issues with my parents and in-laws and if nothing else they don't just accept what Microsoft feeds them anymore. I even got my wife to switch to Linux. I agree with you totally, a grassroots movement has a great chance of sucess.
One comment in the Life After Redhat article stuck out. He loves FreeBSD and his systems are "upgraded once a week (all software)". Is this normal pratice? I still have SuSE 6.3 systems running.
As for the keyboard they make PC style keyboards, you just have to ask for them. Where I work we use Ultra 5, Ultra 10, Ultra 60, and Blades and we all have Sun "PC Style" keyboards.
In the early days of MS support was great. Circa 1991-1993 you could call for any product for free. They had a DJ playing music and reporting queue times while you were on hold. I remember I bought a new 14.4 BOCA modem and it was set to com3. My Packard Bell had a com1 but not a com2. Because of this DOS couldn't see the modem. I called MS and the guy on the phone knew exactly what I was talking about then had me write a DEBUG (remember the dos debug command?) script to re-assign com3 to com2 without changing the modem! I was impressed. Another time I called for help on time equations in Excel, again I had a great person that spent about 2 hours with me - basically teaching me Excel over the phone.
Later when I became a MS Exchange consultant (1996) I was calling about a corrupt message store. The guy on the phone didn't know anything. That was the last time I called.
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Didn't emacs already have this: viper mode? Or was that just straight vi? I for one liked viper mode so I am going to try this new mode out.
Thanks, I am actually looking for webhosting and I was going to go with Inmotion but I like these guys better.
Yes it does, it didn't indicate that before I started the download but was pleased to see it was the "Complete" version.
I just signed up and am very happy. The emulation is flawless, sound is perfect, my logitech rumblepad if fully supported. For ~$10 a month its a great deal. Even my wife uses it to play Dig Dug and Pac man. Most of the arcade and system games download in about a minute. I waited 45 minutes for Heros of Might and Magic III. Once it is downloaded it is cached on your system so you don't have to keep downloading it.
Being able to play Kings Quest I and Zaxxon is too cool.
You had a rough time with Slackware 10 and so you have given up on Linux all together if I understand the gist of your post.
Perhaps a newer, more cutting edge distribution would have been a better choice. Fedora Core 3 and Gentoo come to mind.
The fact is there are a lot of people who use Linux for everyday work and it can easily replace a Windows or Mac system. In my opinion Gnome 2.8 is there today - it is just as usable as Windows XP or Mac OS X
I agree with you in that mainstream Linux distributions are not ready to replace Tivo, however I don't think that is the goal of most distributions.
People building MythTV setups are not doing on Linux because its easy and Wizard driven. They are doing it for the challenge and the customization. Sounds like you weren't up to the challenge and gave up. I don't understand how you can blame Linux for that.
Of course I meant Space Marines.
I loved Space Hulk when I was younger but it has been out of print for a while. Gene Stealers and Space Machines on a re-configurable maze. When I saw Doom at my local mall my first thought was Space Hulk.
Doom is nearly identical to the core of Space Hulk. More weapons, more monsters, and more tile types is all.
If you liked Space Hulk you will like Doom.
Your an asshole. It's so trivial and you have how many products on the shelf? God sometimes I hate Slashdot between this AC post and the reaction to suprnova.org going down I am getting ill reading comments.
I see quite a few comments about "Now I am going to switch to Linux" or "I have been waiting for this for so long" and I got to thinking. What stopped you from using prior to this? It was available for download for ~30 dollars. I purchased it not only for its functionality but to support a Linux company.
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I could have said Doom or Quake which both really freaked me out but the game that got into my head was Silent Hill 2 on the PS2. After a week of playing, I wouldn't play it at night. After another week I was dreaming about it. The tension, sounds, and imagery really disturbed me. I won't be playing Silent Hill 3:)
I also subscribe to slashdot, ars technica, and gamespot. I am one of the few who actually support good content. Please if you have put off subscribing - to any site - do so now. Show that you want good content. No flames about slashdots quality either - you know as well as I do you check this site multiple times a day!
Wow am I an idiot:( I should have posted AC.
Looks like BETA 3 to me. Am I missing something?
I have this in original packaging with receipt ($55.00!) and the "Interstel Security Access Code Wheel". I found it half price books for $2. I agree that this was the most engaging game I ever played
Actually since Solaris 8 - a companion CD has been included. On it is all the GNU stuff, SAMBA, Apache (before it became a part of the default install), fvwm2, afterstep, KDE 2.0 and GNOME 1.0. All you had to do was install it. It wasn't installed by default but it was there.
I am running eMac, G4 750 MHz with 768 MB RAM. Its slow. I have freebsd installed on a Pentium 233 MHz with 32 MB RAM and it smokes OS X for interactive speed. But the slowness isn't overall and for everything. For example I can do video editing which works great but resizing my web browser seems sluggish. Rippin' CDs is really fast but opening a tcsh windows seems sluggish. Its wierd.
We just finished setting up her new eMac. She was on RedHat 7.3 for about a week before giving up. She tried both KDE and GNOME. Her main problem? No decent printer drivers! She's an artist and all the printer drivers we tried for her HP 1220C sucked. Sure GIMP looks great on the screen but try to color correct and print out something identical - just didn't work for us. She loved KDE and all the little toys, hell she spend a day just tweaking her desktop! The main point of this post is for her printing is the killer app and it isn't there yet. She could take either desktop.
That is a great idea. I have been thus far just talking to people but I think handing out CD's and article printouts will work even better. I have brought up these and related issues with my parents and in-laws and if nothing else they don't just accept what Microsoft feeds them anymore. I even got my wife to switch to Linux. I agree with you totally, a grassroots movement has a great chance of sucess.
Well I have already pre-ordered my copy from tux games and am excited.
One comment in the Life After Redhat article stuck out. He loves FreeBSD and his systems are "upgraded once a week (all software)". Is this normal pratice? I still have SuSE 6.3 systems running.
Totally off topic, your site is awesome - I will probably subscribe!
As for the keyboard they make PC style keyboards, you just have to ask for them. Where I work we use Ultra 5, Ultra 10, Ultra 60, and Blades and we all have Sun "PC Style" keyboards.
Later when I became a MS Exchange consultant (1996) I was calling about a corrupt message store. The guy on the phone didn't know anything. That was the last time I called.