I don't understand why there is no single word about Edonkey in articles. Kazaa doesn't work in Linux (at least without Wine) and AFAIK lack few features of Edonkey network. Why Edonkey community is ignored in such comparisions? Is it really so small?
Personally, I loved Civ and Civ2, but hated Civ3. Did they ever fix the issues with corruption? Utterly killed the game for me. My wife couldn't even get into it - even Chieftan level was too difficult with the improved AI and the beat-the-player-down methodolgy used in Civ3.
IMHO main advantage of Civ3 is - you don't need to fight. That game is called "Civilization" but winning strategy was always total war. Sid Meier tried to fix that in Civ3 and I think he made it well. Civ3 is not upgraded Civ2. It's totaly different game. I spend years with Civ1 and months with Civ3, but I never loved Civ2. Civ2 has "Sid Meier's" in title. But is it really his game?
All nomined strategy games are RTSes. Worst game is Civ3 multiplayer. I haven't played it (I like single player games), but to me Civ3 is one of best games in last year. Almost every other "strategy" game is RTS (arcade/strategy mixture) or HoMaM-like. Do you remember first Heroes of Might and Magic? It was succesfull only because graphics and simplicity. Today nobody say "HoMaM is for children". In world where RTSes are best strategy games and Civilization is "dissapoiting" (I know it's about mp-add-on, but last year everyone talk how bad Civ3 is) - HoMaM is no more childlish.
PS. Nobody noticed Moonbase Commander? It was the only strategy (except Civ3) I found fun last months.
I'm already running Opera, and won't downgrade to mozilla or the like. I play games like Return to Castle Wolfentstein and Tribes2. They're closed source, and I have no problem running them. So what's the big deal about using a closed-source driver? Who ever said that I must use a 100% open source system?
I play RTCW, too. But please compare closed source game and closed source kernel module. By "system" I mean just kernel and main libraries, not end-user applications. You are using RTCW only when it's time to play. What about kernel module? Most people use it all the time when "computer is turned on".
1. ATIs drivers are closed source 2. There are open-sourced drivers for ATI cards, but even a 1.5 years old Radeon 8500 is poorly supported. Don't even dream about playing games with those drivers and new hardware. 3. Even Matrox Parhelia 2D-drivers are closed source. There aren't any 3D-Linux drivers for Parhelia.
1. and 3. are true, but 2. is completly false. Please give any proof for what you wrote. I don't own Radeon 8500, but I played with old Radeon VE in OpenGL games, and my OpenGL code also works there without problems. VE is R100 (8500 is R200), but AFAIK it uses same radeon DRI driver now.
Do you have 8500 in installed with Linux system? Which applications doesnt work for you?
Installing nVidia drivers means changing open source operating system into open-closed source hybride. Keep in mind, that you have choice with other cards, like ATI or Matrox. I know most people answer "I am not interested with changing or even reading driver source", but they forget why Open Source is good. I will write just two reasons:
when something doesn't work - you can ask for help, open source projects (DRI, emu10k1, etc...) has mailing lists when you can submit bug raports, but help is not limited to drivers author - you can also find help on newsgroups, from people who has same hardware like you, open source help works better, because there is a lot of coders floating around on newsgroups, these coders can do nothing with closed source
spyware - yes, it's hard to believe there is some kind of spyware in device driver, but it is possible (in future!), and remember - open source Linux means no spyware at all, with closed source you can be never sure
Calculations, calculations and another "new economy". Everyone say "consoles are coming, PCs are dying". But what about simple facts:
on PC you can play games from 1980s to 2002 plus use emulator of almost every platform
on PC you can buy very cheap games from "classic packs" or cover CDs, classic games are for example Fallout, Unreal, Thief or Railroad Tycoon 2 - are these games really worse than current "hits" ?
on PC you can use a lot of freeware/shareware games, Free Software is also much closer to PC than consoles
last but not least - abandonware, or you can call it "piracy" if you want
Of course if you want to buy something, turn it on and play few new games - console is probably better choice than PC. But which console give you so much possibilites (just in games!) as PC?
How long news services will publish that CRAP?
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NWN Linux Client Delayed
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· Score: 5, Insightful
Just please read old Slashdot news about NWN client for Linux. All sane people know it won't happen soon. But there is another and another useless raport on news sites.
It was smart marketing to sell more copies of NWN. Thanks to promise of Linux client, authors get a lot of announces on Linux-related sites, and even not-so-Linux-related, because it was just a unusual event: "new game for Linux".
Now please look at news archive. Please read all this CRAP. How many people is working on Linux port? They realized then can't play movies or sounds NOW? So what they did all the time before? When they started work on Linux client? Maybe after first Windows release? Or maybe they still don't know which libraries use for it?
I know it will be probably moderated down, but I don't care. I am sick of all that commercials put on news-sites. When Carmack say "there will be Linux client" - he release it just with Windows and Mac one. And IMHO community will remember who was honest, and who was not.
And next two are six and six. The number of the beast is hidden inside PI. Humanity found it today, and now whole world is doomed. Watch out, apocalypse is coming!
My Palm M100 has 2MB of RAM, more expensive models have 8MB. Why should I waste so much memory for one mp3^H^H^Hogg file? BTW Check http://www.freewarepalm.net/ and see what can be created in just few kilobytes. That is true software, not that bloated monsters available everywhere.
Personally, I've always wished that those robot-battle type shows on tv were autonomous instead of remote controlled. Now THAT would be a challenge.
There are computer programs which simulate robot wars, from old Core Wars (assembler programs) to RealTimeBattle. There are also Lego Mindstorms - you can build and program your robot then make it fight with other one. I have seen robots fight in TV once and IMHO it was very boring.
What's funny here? DRM is in kernel for a long time:
Direct Rendering Manager (XFree86 DRI support) CONFIG_DRM
Kernel-level support for the Direct Rendering Infrastructure (DRI)
introduced in XFree86 4.0. If you say Y here, you need to select
the module that's right for your graphics card from the list below.
These modules provide support for synchronization, security, and
DMA transfers. Please see for more
details. You should also select and configure AGP
(/dev/agpgart) support.
My first PC was 386 SX 16. It had Intel CPU of course. Then I bought 386 DX 40, then AMD 486 DX (DX4? something like that) 100, then Cyrix 6x86 166+, then K6-2 500, then Athlon XP 1800. As you see I haven't used Intel for a long time. If AMD is going to increase prices and stop active development - there is a place for a new competitor. You probably don't remember Cyrix CPUs from pentium times. Thanks to Cyrix - Intel and AMD put new CPUs faster on market. Of course they also created very aggresive marketing (I still hear "Cyrix is unstable" sentence). If AMD stop now - whole market will slow down. We need Transmeta in Desktop PC. Is it possible?
Please do not blame Opera for not being open source. I remember I was using Opera in 1998, it was fast, it was small, it was usable. MSIE was always huge, slow, and bloated. But, Netscape wasn't much better. Now, after 4 years, there is free browser - Mozilla. I use it every day. But it's far from perfect. In 3-4 years they added irc client, mail/news stuff, and who knows what else. They completly forgot about speed. MSIE was huge? Compare 1998 MSIE with todays Mozilla. I am not using Opera, because I have strong computer and I can waste resources for such product like Mozilla. But there are places when Mozilla is not a right thing.
Mesa is not hardware accelerated
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· Score: 3, Informative
After reading comments I want to write just one thing: Mesa is not hardware accelerated. There is no point to compare it with nVidia or ATI closed source drivers, there is no point to compare speed of Mesa and Win OpenGL implementation. You can't play any new game with Mesa, because you will get 1-2fps.
I am not sure why non-developer should download Mesa, probably only if he/she need to run OpenGL application (like Blender for example) and hardware accelerated driver works bad or not exist.
Many people write "let's buy XBox, install Linux there and not buy any games", but I haven't read idea about breaking Xbox into pieces. Is it possible to use any part of Xbox with standard PC? Imagine "PC factory" buying underpriced Xbox parts...
BTW is it legal to sell Xbox? What about selling part of it?
If the distributions are the Linux Kernel + GNU Utilities shouldn't it be called Linux/GNU?
Distributions aren't Linux Kernel + GNU Utilities, this is just a myth. XFree86 is not GNU, many servers aren't GNU, and even many GPL programs aren't part of GNU project.
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I don't understand why there is no single word about Edonkey in articles. Kazaa doesn't work in Linux (at least without Wine) and AFAIK lack few features of Edonkey network.
Why Edonkey community is ignored in such comparisions? Is it really so small?
Personally, I loved Civ and Civ2, but hated Civ3. Did they ever fix the issues with corruption? Utterly killed the game for me. My wife couldn't even get into it - even Chieftan level was too difficult with the improved AI and the beat-the-player-down methodolgy used in Civ3.
IMHO main advantage of Civ3 is - you don't need to fight. That game is called "Civilization" but winning strategy was always total war. Sid Meier tried to fix that in Civ3 and I think he made it well. Civ3 is not upgraded Civ2. It's totaly different game. I spend years with Civ1 and months with Civ3, but I never loved Civ2.
Civ2 has "Sid Meier's" in title. But is it really his game?
All nomined strategy games are RTSes. Worst game is Civ3 multiplayer. I haven't played it (I like single player games), but to me Civ3 is one of best games in last year. Almost every other "strategy" game is RTS (arcade/strategy mixture) or HoMaM-like. Do you remember first Heroes of Might and Magic? It was succesfull only because graphics and simplicity. Today nobody say "HoMaM is for children". In world where RTSes are best strategy games and Civilization is "dissapoiting" (I know it's about mp-add-on, but last year everyone talk how bad Civ3 is) - HoMaM is no more childlish.
PS. Nobody noticed Moonbase Commander? It was the only strategy (except Civ3) I found fun last months.
I'm already running Opera, and won't downgrade to mozilla or the like. I play games like Return to Castle Wolfentstein and Tribes2. They're closed source, and I have no problem running them. So what's the big deal about using a closed-source driver? Who ever said that I must use a 100% open source system?
I play RTCW, too. But please compare closed source game and closed source kernel module. By "system" I mean just kernel and main libraries, not end-user applications. You are using RTCW only when it's time to play. What about kernel module? Most people use it all the time when "computer is turned on".
1. ATIs drivers are closed source
2. There are open-sourced drivers for ATI cards, but even a 1.5 years old Radeon 8500 is poorly supported. Don't even dream about playing games with those drivers and new hardware.
3. Even Matrox Parhelia 2D-drivers are closed source. There aren't any 3D-Linux drivers for Parhelia.
1. and 3. are true, but 2. is completly false. Please give any proof for what you wrote. I don't own Radeon 8500, but I played with old Radeon VE in OpenGL games, and my OpenGL code also works there without problems. VE is R100 (8500 is R200), but AFAIK it uses same radeon DRI driver now.
Do you have 8500 in installed with Linux system? Which applications doesnt work for you?
I know most people answer "I am not interested with changing or even reading driver source", but they forget why Open Source is good. I will write just two reasons:
Of course if you want to buy something, turn it on and play few new games - console is probably better choice than PC. But which console give you so much possibilites (just in games!) as PC?
Just please read old Slashdot news about NWN client for Linux. All sane people know it won't happen soon. But there is another and another useless raport on news sites.
It was smart marketing to sell more copies of NWN. Thanks to promise of Linux client, authors get a lot of announces on Linux-related sites, and even not-so-Linux-related, because it was just a unusual event: "new game for Linux".
Now please look at news archive. Please read all this CRAP. How many people is working on Linux port? They realized then can't play movies or sounds NOW? So what they did all the time before? When they started work on Linux client? Maybe after first Windows release? Or maybe they still don't know which libraries use for it?
I know it will be probably moderated down, but I don't care. I am sick of all that commercials put on news-sites. When Carmack say "there will be Linux client" - he release it just with Windows and Mac one. And IMHO community will remember who was honest, and who was not.
One way to calculate for yourself the value of pi is to drop a lot of toothpicks onto a large piece of paper that has lines drawn on it!
You are toothpicks seller, aren't you?
And next two are six and six. The number of the beast is hidden inside PI. Humanity found it today, and now whole world is doomed. Watch out, apocalypse is coming!
What is the best way to waste CPU power?
a) calculating another piece of PI
b) running miss Setia Thome software
c) installing Windows
Share your opinion.
Now I am waiting for Linux-2.4 news.
Can you give me any reason why should I use Solaris instead Linux on x86?
My Palm M100 has 2MB of RAM, more expensive models have 8MB. Why should I waste so much memory for one mp3^H^H^Hogg file?
BTW Check http://www.freewarepalm.net/ and see what can be created in just few kilobytes. That is true software, not that bloated monsters available everywhere.
Personally, I've always wished that those robot-battle type shows on tv were autonomous instead of remote controlled. Now THAT would be a challenge.
There are computer programs which simulate robot wars, from old Core Wars (assembler programs) to RealTimeBattle. There are also Lego Mindstorms - you can build and program your robot then make it fight with other one.
I have seen robots fight in TV once and IMHO it was very boring.
to run the Linux version of WineX (the one you have to pay for) to run Warcraft 3
Pay for what? Isn't Warcraft 3 working ok free WineX version? You are allowed to use WineX from CVS without any paying.
What's funny here? DRM is in kernel for a long time:
Direct Rendering Manager (XFree86 DRI support)
CONFIG_DRM
Kernel-level support for the Direct Rendering Infrastructure (DRI)
introduced in XFree86 4.0. If you say Y here, you need to select
the module that's right for your graphics card from the list below.
These modules provide support for synchronization, security, and
DMA transfers. Please see for more
details. You should also select and configure AGP
(/dev/agpgart) support.
My first PC was 386 SX 16. It had Intel CPU of course. Then I bought 386 DX 40, then AMD 486 DX (DX4? something like that) 100, then Cyrix 6x86 166+, then K6-2 500, then Athlon XP 1800. As you see I haven't used Intel for a long time.
If AMD is going to increase prices and stop active development - there is a place for a new competitor. You probably don't remember Cyrix CPUs from pentium times. Thanks to Cyrix - Intel and AMD put new CPUs faster on market. Of course they also created very aggresive marketing (I still hear "Cyrix is unstable" sentence). If AMD stop now - whole market will slow down.
We need Transmeta in Desktop PC. Is it possible?
Please do not blame Opera for not being open source. I remember I was using Opera in 1998, it was fast, it was small, it was usable. MSIE was always huge, slow, and bloated. But, Netscape wasn't much better. Now, after 4 years, there is free browser - Mozilla. I use it every day. But it's far from perfect. In 3-4 years they added irc client, mail/news stuff, and who knows what else. They completly forgot about speed. MSIE was huge? Compare 1998 MSIE with todays Mozilla.
I am not using Opera, because I have strong computer and I can waste resources for such product like Mozilla. But there are places when Mozilla is not a right thing.
After reading comments I want to write just one thing: Mesa is not hardware accelerated. There is no point to compare it with nVidia or ATI closed source drivers, there is no point to compare speed of Mesa and Win OpenGL implementation. You can't play any new game with Mesa, because you will get 1-2fps.
I am not sure why non-developer should download Mesa, probably only if he/she need to run OpenGL application (like Blender for example) and hardware accelerated driver works bad or not exist.
Many people write "let's buy XBox, install Linux there and not buy any games", but I haven't read idea about breaking Xbox into pieces. Is it possible to use any part of Xbox with standard PC? Imagine "PC factory" buying underpriced Xbox parts...
BTW is it legal to sell Xbox? What about selling part of it?
I hope they lose so much money like "New Economy" dotcoms.
Windows is much better in crashing.
How can I watch movies on IRIX? Which formats? What about nonlinear video editing?
If the distributions are the Linux Kernel + GNU Utilities shouldn't it be called Linux/GNU?
Distributions aren't Linux Kernel + GNU Utilities, this is just a myth. XFree86 is not GNU, many servers aren't GNU, and even many GPL programs aren't part of GNU project.