The problem with Linux is that it's an open source system, so if you are having issues or difficulties with its stability, it's like pushing on a rope; there's no single vendor to deal with. You have to be self-deterministic in terms of how things work. You have to make your own choices and do your own tests on motherboards, graphics cards, applications, operating system releases, all those kinds of things."
What the hell? With the amount of money they're spending on this system they can't call Redhat, IBM, or HP? IBM and HP are already shipping them the workstations.
Give me a break, pick one and run with it - testing motherboards? That's why you have vendors...
Open source wont succeed until it makes better software than what exists or until it makes software that doesn't exist yet.
I've been trying zinf all morning... and I must say, I'm glad I ran into this story, because so far it has been the best player I have used so far. We CAN do better than Winamp. XMMS IMO performs alot better than Winamp does under windows (try loading 5k+ mp3's and see which one is faster, by a long shot). With Open Source software we won't see stupid marketing gimmicks like a mini-browser.
Whether Winamp3 has a linux port is irrelevant. First of all, the port is already way behind the windows version, and it's not Free (speech).
Unfortunately for Zinf, it is cursed with "media player" syndrome, which means it must not conform to any known UI methodology and look like absolute crap by default.
The playlist is by far the best I've seen, I began organizing my mess of an mp3/ogg collection. I can edit ID3's right from the list, and drag them right onto my playlist. Everything good about this playlist overrides any qualms I have about how the normal player interface is. It is very intuitive.
Freea*p has a new fan today, I've already removed Winamp!
"In typical Army fashion the release of America's Army is a bust. All the servers are either full or down and the way it's set up, you can't play past the basic training without completing some of the training online. Since you can't connect to any of the servers to complete that training you basically can't play the game at all. What a waste of taxpayer money."
Wow! I applaud the Army's foray into online gaming, they've cloned every aspect of online gaming, kudos! Tomorrow, there will be a patch, the next day, another one, but that one will break your savegames, but that won't matter, because the master server will still be down....
(Still pissed I can't find a decent roleplaying NWN server....)
I tell them I'm on a cellphone and it's illegal for them to call cellphones in accordance with the 1997 Telecom Act, since we end up paying for the minutes. Then I tell them I'm a telecommunications consultant for Qwest/XO/Whoever. I then tell them to take me off the list, ask who they are, and them tell them that I am reporting them to my local Public Utilities Commission.
That should work. (No idea if it REALLY works or if its even correct, but if they're calling my spamming my cellphone, screw 'em.)
I wouldn't say that commercial developers are incompetent, more like 'commercial software houses as a whole are incompetent and lazy.'
It would be easier to code to something like UnitedLinux than support 5 or 6 different distributions. They'd rather just pick one (most just pick Redhat) and be done with it. They're just not willing to invest developer costs.
Love would have everyone believe that Linux is fragmenting Unix-style. But that just doesn't happen with open source. I mean, look at Ximian, they're a relatively small software house, they support boatloads of distributions.
Use an ODBC connection to connect to MySQL, then you can use whatever frontend you want.
I have a client who insisted on using Access for their db. Set up the client boxes with MyODBC, set up the data sources in windows, they connect, blamo, as far as they're concerned, they're using access.
The three men ran the company like a cult, according to former employees, with most staffers routinely working 16-hour days without bonuses or overtime. Employees were afraid to openly question management, to blow the whistle or to quit.
Give me a break, people act like.com's invented this kind of behavior. Companies have been abusing employees since before the.com era. 16 hours a day without bonuses or overtime? Boo-hoo, our servicemen do that shit everyday.
Let them flame, you did the right thing. Quakespy was awesome. Early Gamespy's were good. Hate to flame them but they deserve it.
Then, through some sort of Realplayer-esque type move, it turned to crapware. Around the same time Planet* multiplied to 5 billion useless clones - now it's top flash banner, bottom ani gif, and 2 skyscraper flashes framing a 10x10 area of content. Gamespy Arcade, why? Meanwhile, Radiospy, which was actually cool, is "off the air". Get my GamespyID to download a patch "exclusively hosted" by Fileplanet? Go fuck yourselves.
Gamespy now infects games all over the place, and it really sucks. NWN's ingame server is "powered by Gamespy", and let me tell you, it's a UI nightmare.
I want the old Planetquake back - and before someone gives me the sob story on how hard it is to make it on the net/we got hosed by advertisers/bandwidth is expensive blah blah, Steve's been doing it without selling his soul, and building a kickass gaming community - and when he got in trouble, his users paid off a substantial amount of bills. Keep selling out users Gamespy, I won't miss you.
We have an expensive problem - the browser archive chews through 140GB of bandwidth a month and growing, even though we've throttled the FTP server and restricted the maxclients.
For about the next day or too you can count on that getting a little bit more expensive.:)
I hope they find someone, the archive is pretty useful.
Nice marketing spin... I'm sorry, but I just don't see Lindows being successful. Do I even consider Lindows Linux? Not really.
Does any sane Linux user think that a distribution where the user runs with root priviledges is a good idea? No. When I read this I though it was some kind of joke. Just what we need, users hosing their own system because their distributor not only gave them a loaded gun, but put it in their mouth for them.
Let's have a look at their FAQ Section: The Lindows.com Insider program is designed to be exclusive to the individual that signs up. As an Insider member, we ask that you not distribute copies of the LindowsOS to other individuals and that you abide by the end user license agreement that comes with our software.
Cluestick - If we wanted crappy licensing agreements, we would be running Windows.
There are two types End User License Agreements:
1. A "Family" End-User
This license if for an individual end-user and he/she agrees to use LindowsOS for personal use and is to be used only by members of the End-User's Family.
2. A "Business" End-User
This type of license is for an agreed upon number of simultaneous users or seats(computer systems), but not both.
You can read the EULA (End User License Agreement) in its entirety here.
Cluestick: Once again, if I get stuck with these contstraints, (let's call this, non-free), then why am I using Lindows? Linux is about freedom (speech, not beer), why am I tying myself down like this? This is Caldera-think. If my enterprise runs Linux, I just want to pay $X a year to Suse/Redhat/IBM for support. Sitting there counting boxes to figure out how many licenses you should pay for is a big reason to avoid close source software in the first place.
Lindows.com respects all applicable licensing and is proud to be a strong supporter of the Open Source community by helping to advance several Open Source initiatives. We are financially supporting several open source organizations.
Cluestick: Wine, anything else? You can't just say 'strong supporter of the Open Source Community.' Hell, I'm sitting here drinking a soda, I think of myself as a strong supporter too. Compare this with, let's say Redhat: Off the top of my head. Gnome, Apache, Mozilla, and gcc. That's a strong supporter of the OSS community.
Anyone else disappointed with the Walmart 'win' this company gained? No thanks, my vote is for "this company does not represent Linux or the Linux community".
I've already bought this game on the promise of a multiplatform game that will run on my linux machine out-of-the-box. Bioware ships the game with no linux client - with the old 'linux client to follow' excuse. Now this.
We just can't catch a break... of course, none of this will matter, because the 200 people that are about to post 'don't buy the game', 'let your wallet do the talking' or 'boycott Bioware' will be doing the same damn thing I'm doing today - calling the store like madmen so we can skate work early and begin playing.
I don't know if this is a Mozilla problem or not (but I have read the bug reports) - but I've installed mozilla on umpteen computers, both windows and linux, and never had a problem with a scrollwheel.
Government workers and contractors, you have to (or already have) comply with Section 508 Accessability Guidelines (as stated in the article), which means that most of these pages need to be rewritten anyway, now's a good chance to knock out XHTML1.0 compliance while you're at it, and shoot for the Web Content Accessability Guidelines (WCAG) too... so all those neat Powerpoint presentations that are autogenerated into HTML need to go!
Getting to level A is not hard at all, anyone hit AAA yet?, I'm finding XHTML1.1 and WCAG-AAA a little bit to unwieldy for everyday web use...
NIH syndrome is more prevalent than people blatantly ripping off open source code or commiting 'acts of IP theft'. I think moreso than people give it credit for.
Even Mandrake rewrote their installer to "differentiate" between Red Hat. Redhat doesn't include fontdrake, or any of their competitor GPL tools. It seems alot more like a bazaar of cathedrals to use the analogy.
If I write the ultimate Linux app, what are the chances that someone is going to 'steal my IP', or even if it is GPL, contribute back? Look at the ton of duplicate GPL programs.
If I were a programmer I think I'd GPL my software so people can look at the code and contribute patches - chances are some other OSS programmer is going to not like the language it was written in, which widget set I used, or whatever, and just rewrite it to suit their needs.
I have no numbers to back this up, just seems that most programmers and/or companies prefer to write their own software, regardless of reusable code or license.
Why do you and Caldera continue to ride the UNIX-like bandwagon - with the per-seat licensing and anti-GPL stance - how can Caldera afford to abandon the community that made Linux what it is today?
Avoiding stupid things like per-seat licensing is what attracts people to Linux. Sorry to sound like a troll, but Caldera is not a linux company - stop trying to wave your banner under "unity" to forward your own agenda.
But I don't want the government using my tax dollars to achieve that (except in antitrust and other legal manners).
Yes, it does suck that the government has to "get involved", but at the same time, I pay ALOT of money in taxes.
The government should not force, anyone to do anything, but as a stakeholder(taxpayer), I'd be damn pissed if the government is spending ~$800 per server for Win2k, ~$400 per person on Office without even considering the alternatives.
Example, at my agency someone wanted to spend ~$3000 for FTP Server Software and clients. They were going to do it too, until myself and some others mentioned that free software would be perfect in that role. (Hell, I think W2K comes with an ftp server).
This is not just the government though, businesses do it too - PHBs assume that expensive software is better, and the more money they spend, the better "product" the will get.
It's up to us (OSS advocates), to educate our bosses and the people that make decisions that OSS makes sense in alot of places. And don't just say it, PROVE IT, deploy it, and document the performance/costs benefits. At the same time, integrate their existing software that they've already paid for instead of trying to convert everything all at once.
I'd like to see this as a win for OSS. As a government contractor constantly looking for ways to bring linux into my workplace, I can tell you that there is still a long way to go before the government rolls out OSS or any non-Microsoft product on a broad level.
Things like Networthiness Policies, Security, and red tape make it difficult. Especially when you have mutiple agencies under different chains-of-command, so don't think that when "The Federal Government approves use of OSS" comes around that the individual fiefdoms will be mass migrating over to Linux/Apache/whatever.
Somewhere in the US Government, people are running Apache as their production webserver. My agency only uses IIS, Apache is not on the 'networthiness' list for this location, so no Apache for me. It's great that the NSA has made their own hardened version of Linux, but here, the security guys says only WindowsNT (not even 2000 yet) is the only approved OS secure enough for our network. Now, multiply this across ALL the federal/state/local agencies.
Even if it was mandated for the government to use OSS, it would take YEARS of retraining people to use this stuff, keeping in mind that alot of the government systems are still running Novell 3.x.
The way to win government (which is my approach), is to influence your specific area, and push it from the bottom to the top. It's one thing to sit there and say "Noone should use default IIS/2000 installs for a production environment". It's a totally different thing to review the existing policies and change them, document them, sending them through committe, and then deploying. (Believe me, it sucks.)
On the other hand, things like this help, another government law that has really helped OSS is Section 508 (The accessability laws). At first, I hated them, tons of pages and web apps still need to be rewritten - how does this benefit open source? 508 happens to read almost word for word with the W3C guidelines, which means that alot of government pages and applications now work in Konq/Mozilla. Good Stuff.
...and please people, before you report a bug, search through the list of duplicates and most reported.
The open source community will likely cause the mozilla.org people more work by all reporting 500 versions of the same problem - especially with all the publicity 1.0 will be getting.
And, if you report a bug, please follow through. There are umpteen bugs in bugzilla that are sitting there with a bug reporter that's MIA.
I've said this before, and I'll say it again. Wine and its a derivatives are a neat hack - but using this stuff is like having sex with 4 condoms on. We want good performance for Linux games - BUY THE LINUX VERSION.
Neverwinter Nights is a perfect example of how a game should be (er, will be) published - cross-platform, same box. I've prebought it already.
We should be supporting the game companies that port to Linux instead of trying to get games working at 50% of the performance of Windows.
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The problem with Linux is that it's an open source system, so if you are having issues or difficulties with its stability, it's like pushing on a rope; there's no single vendor to deal with. You have to be self-deterministic in terms of how things work. You have to make your own choices and do your own tests on motherboards, graphics cards, applications, operating system releases, all those kinds of things."
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What the hell? With the amount of money they're spending on this system they can't call Redhat, IBM, or HP? IBM and HP are already shipping them the workstations.
Give me a break, pick one and run with it - testing motherboards? That's why you have vendors
Open source wont succeed until it makes better software than what exists or until it makes software that doesn't exist yet.
... and I must say, I'm glad I ran into this story, because so far it has been the best player I have used so far. We CAN do better than Winamp. XMMS IMO performs alot better than Winamp does under windows (try loading 5k+ mp3's and see which one is faster, by a long shot). With Open Source software we won't see stupid marketing gimmicks like a mini-browser.
I've been trying zinf all morning
Whether Winamp3 has a linux port is irrelevant. First of all, the port is already way behind the windows version, and it's not Free (speech).
Unfortunately for Zinf, it is cursed with "media player" syndrome, which means it must not conform to any known UI methodology and look like absolute crap by default.
The playlist is by far the best I've seen, I began organizing my mess of an mp3/ogg collection. I can edit ID3's right from the list, and drag them right onto my playlist. Everything good about this playlist overrides any qualms I have about how the normal player interface is. It is very intuitive.
Freea*p has a new fan today, I've already removed Winamp!
Ah yes ... the worst of the sort are media players.
Winamp, WMP, Real, and Quicktime - you can sum up everything wrong with computer UIs with those four programs alone.
"In typical Army fashion the release of America's Army is a bust. All the servers are either full or down and the way it's set up, you can't play past the basic training without completing some of the training online. Since you can't connect to any of the servers to complete that training you basically can't play the game at all. What a waste of taxpayer money."
Wow! I applaud the Army's foray into online gaming, they've cloned every aspect of online gaming, kudos! Tomorrow, there will be a patch, the next day, another one, but that one will break your savegames, but that won't matter, because the master server will still be down....
(Still pissed I can't find a decent roleplaying NWN server....)
I tell them I'm on a cellphone and it's illegal for them to call cellphones in accordance with the 1997 Telecom Act, since we end up paying for the minutes. Then I tell them I'm a telecommunications consultant for Qwest/XO/Whoever. I then tell them to take me off the list, ask who they are, and them tell them that I am reporting them to my local Public Utilities Commission.
That should work. (No idea if it REALLY works or if its even correct, but if they're calling my spamming my cellphone, screw 'em.)
I wouldn't say that commercial developers are incompetent, more like 'commercial software houses as a whole are incompetent and lazy.'
It would be easier to code to something like UnitedLinux than support 5 or 6 different distributions. They'd rather just pick one (most just pick Redhat) and be done with it. They're just not willing to invest developer costs.
Love would have everyone believe that Linux is fragmenting Unix-style. But that just doesn't happen with open source. I mean, look at Ximian, they're a relatively small software house, they support boatloads of distributions.
Use an ODBC connection to connect to MySQL, then you can use whatever frontend you want.
I have a client who insisted on using Access for their db. Set up the client boxes with MyODBC, set up the data sources in windows, they connect, blamo, as far as they're concerned, they're using access.
The three men ran the company like a cult, according to former employees, with most staffers routinely working 16-hour days without bonuses or overtime. Employees were afraid to openly question management, to blow the whistle or to quit.
.com's invented this kind of behavior. Companies have been abusing employees since before the .com era. 16 hours a day without bonuses or overtime? Boo-hoo, our servicemen do that shit everyday.
Give me a break, people act like
I think its part of the advertising black magic that websites use to woo advertisers.
"We have over 100,000 registered users, that's X impressions of your Flash ad!"
"Wow, according to this list Bill Gates checks your site 459 times a day!"
"Yeah, well, zdnet.com is his favorite...."
/me waits to get flamed by crt and Walla now
Let them flame, you did the right thing. Quakespy was awesome. Early Gamespy's were good. Hate to flame them but they deserve it.
Then, through some sort of Realplayer-esque type move, it turned to crapware. Around the same time Planet* multiplied to 5 billion useless clones - now it's top flash banner, bottom ani gif, and 2 skyscraper flashes framing a 10x10 area of content. Gamespy Arcade, why? Meanwhile, Radiospy, which was actually cool, is "off the air". Get my GamespyID to download a patch "exclusively hosted" by Fileplanet? Go fuck yourselves.
Gamespy now infects games all over the place, and it really sucks. NWN's ingame server is "powered by Gamespy", and let me tell you, it's a UI nightmare.
I want the old Planetquake back - and before someone gives me the sob story on how hard it is to make it on the net/we got hosed by advertisers/bandwidth is expensive blah blah, Steve's been doing it without selling his soul, and building a kickass gaming community - and when he got in trouble, his users paid off a substantial amount of bills. Keep selling out users Gamespy, I won't miss you.
We have an expensive problem - the browser archive chews through 140GB of bandwidth a month and growing, even though we've throttled the FTP server and restricted the maxclients.
:)
For about the next day or too you can count on that getting a little bit more expensive.
I hope they find someone, the archive is pretty useful.
'great results and mostly positive feedback.'
... I'm sorry, but I just don't see Lindows being successful. Do I even consider Lindows Linux? Not really.
Nice marketing spin
Does any sane Linux user think that a distribution where the user runs with root priviledges is a good idea? No. When I read this I though it was some kind of joke. Just what we need, users hosing their own system because their distributor not only gave them a loaded gun, but put it in their mouth for them.
Let's have a look at their FAQ Section:
The Lindows.com Insider program is designed to be exclusive to the individual that signs up. As an Insider member, we ask that you not distribute copies of the LindowsOS to other individuals and that you abide by the end user license agreement that comes with our software.
Cluestick - If we wanted crappy licensing agreements, we would be running Windows.
There are two types End User License Agreements:
1. A "Family" End-User
This license if for an individual end-user and he/she agrees to use LindowsOS for personal use and is to be used only by members of the End-User's Family.
2. A "Business" End-User
This type of license is for an agreed upon number of simultaneous users or seats(computer systems), but not both.
You can read the EULA (End User License Agreement) in its entirety here.
Cluestick: Once again, if I get stuck with these contstraints, (let's call this, non-free), then why am I using Lindows? Linux is about freedom (speech, not beer), why am I tying myself down like this? This is Caldera-think. If my enterprise runs Linux, I just want to pay $X a year to Suse/Redhat/IBM for support. Sitting there counting boxes to figure out how many licenses you should pay for is a big reason to avoid close source software in the first place.
Lindows.com respects all applicable licensing and is proud to be a strong supporter of the Open Source community by helping to advance several Open Source initiatives. We are financially supporting several open source organizations.
Cluestick: Wine, anything else? You can't just say 'strong supporter of the Open Source Community.' Hell, I'm sitting here drinking a soda, I think of myself as a strong supporter too. Compare this with, let's say Redhat: Off the top of my head. Gnome, Apache, Mozilla, and gcc. That's a strong supporter of the OSS community.
Anyone else disappointed with the Walmart 'win' this company gained? No thanks, my vote is for "this company does not represent Linux or the Linux community".
I've already bought this game on the promise of a multiplatform game that will run on my linux machine out-of-the-box. Bioware ships the game with no linux client - with the old 'linux client to follow' excuse. Now this.
... of course, none of this will matter, because the 200 people that are about to post 'don't buy the game', 'let your wallet do the talking' or 'boycott Bioware' will be doing the same damn thing I'm doing today - calling the store like madmen so we can skate work early and begin playing.
We just can't catch a break
The Garnome part of GNOME is such an underrated program. Without it, I definately would not be using GNOME2 today, I'm not that much of a gearhead.
... it also does KDE(!) ... kudos to jeff and the other gnome hackers.
Garnome makes it braindead easy to have a GNOME2 desktop
Not to mention the (+1, Loyalty) you'll get from your current emplyer
I don't know if this is a Mozilla problem or not (but I have read the bug reports) - but I've installed mozilla on umpteen computers, both windows and linux, and never had a problem with a scrollwheel.
Government workers and contractors, you have to (or already have) comply with Section 508 Accessability Guidelines (as stated in the article), which means that most of these pages need to be rewritten anyway, now's a good chance to knock out XHTML1.0 compliance while you're at it, and shoot for the Web Content Accessability Guidelines (WCAG) too ... so all those neat Powerpoint presentations that are autogenerated into HTML need to go!
...
Getting to level A is not hard at all, anyone hit AAA yet?, I'm finding XHTML1.1 and WCAG-AAA a little bit to unwieldy for everyday web use
NIH syndrome is more prevalent than people blatantly ripping off open source code or commiting 'acts of IP theft'. I think moreso than people give it credit for.
Even Mandrake rewrote their installer to "differentiate" between Red Hat. Redhat doesn't include fontdrake, or any of their competitor GPL tools. It seems alot more like a bazaar of cathedrals to use the analogy.
If I write the ultimate Linux app, what are the chances that someone is going to 'steal my IP', or even if it is GPL, contribute back? Look at the ton of duplicate GPL programs.
If I were a programmer I think I'd GPL my software so people can look at the code and contribute patches - chances are some other OSS programmer is going to not like the language it was written in, which widget set I used, or whatever, and just rewrite it to suit their needs.
I have no numbers to back this up, just seems that most programmers and/or companies prefer to write their own software, regardless of reusable code or license.
Why do you and Caldera continue to ride the UNIX-like bandwagon - with the per-seat licensing and anti-GPL stance - how can Caldera afford to abandon the community that made Linux what it is today?
Avoiding stupid things like per-seat licensing is what attracts people to Linux. Sorry to sound like a troll, but Caldera is not a linux company - stop trying to wave your banner under "unity" to forward your own agenda.
But I don't want the government using my tax dollars to achieve that (except in antitrust and other legal manners).
Yes, it does suck that the government has to "get involved", but at the same time, I pay ALOT of money in taxes.
The government should not force, anyone to do anything, but as a stakeholder(taxpayer), I'd be damn pissed if the government is spending ~$800 per server for Win2k, ~$400 per person on Office without even considering the alternatives.
Example, at my agency someone wanted to spend ~$3000 for FTP Server Software and clients. They were going to do it too, until myself and some others mentioned that free software would be perfect in that role. (Hell, I think W2K comes with an ftp server).
This is not just the government though, businesses do it too - PHBs assume that expensive software is better, and the more money they spend, the better "product" the will get.
It's up to us (OSS advocates), to educate our bosses and the people that make decisions that OSS makes sense in alot of places. And don't just say it, PROVE IT, deploy it, and document the performance/costs benefits. At the same time, integrate their existing software that they've already paid for instead of trying to convert everything all at once.
I'd like to see this as a win for OSS. As a government contractor constantly looking for ways to bring linux into my workplace, I can tell you that there is still a long way to go before the government rolls out OSS or any non-Microsoft product on a broad level.
Things like Networthiness Policies, Security, and red tape make it difficult. Especially when you have mutiple agencies under different chains-of-command, so don't think that when "The Federal Government approves use of OSS" comes around that the individual fiefdoms will be mass migrating over to Linux/Apache/whatever.
Somewhere in the US Government, people are running Apache as their production webserver. My agency only uses IIS, Apache is not on the 'networthiness' list for this location, so no Apache for me. It's great that the NSA has made their own hardened version of Linux, but here, the security guys says only WindowsNT (not even 2000 yet) is the only approved OS secure enough for our network. Now, multiply this across ALL the federal/state/local agencies.
Even if it was mandated for the government to use OSS, it would take YEARS of retraining people to use this stuff, keeping in mind that alot of the government systems are still running Novell 3.x.
The way to win government (which is my approach), is to influence your specific area, and push it from the bottom to the top. It's one thing to sit there and say "Noone should use default IIS/2000 installs for a production environment". It's a totally different thing to review the existing policies and change them, document them, sending them through committe, and then deploying. (Believe me, it sucks.)
On the other hand, things like this help, another government law that has really helped OSS is Section 508 (The accessability laws). At first, I hated them, tons of pages and web apps still need to be rewritten - how does this benefit open source? 508 happens to read almost word for word with the W3C guidelines, which means that alot of government pages and applications now work in Konq/Mozilla. Good Stuff.
"And you have to ask yourself who will have a Web server running with this small amount of services activated? Nobody."
Looks like my paranoia is beginning to pay off. Either that, or they were expecting the typical default IIS install.
Well, obviously, if he would have told the Trekkian adaptation with only four bugs, we wouldn't be talking about Mozilla would we? *grin*
...and please people, before you report a bug, search through the list of duplicates and most reported.
The open source community will likely cause the mozilla.org people more work by all reporting 500 versions of the same problem - especially with all the publicity 1.0 will be getting.
And, if you report a bug, please follow through. There are umpteen bugs in bugzilla that are sitting there with a bug reporter that's MIA.
I've said this before, and I'll say it again. Wine and its a derivatives are a neat hack - but using this stuff is like having sex with 4 condoms on. We want good performance for Linux games - BUY THE LINUX VERSION.
Neverwinter Nights is a perfect example of how a game should be (er, will be) published - cross-platform, same box. I've prebought it already.
We should be supporting the game companies that port to Linux instead of trying to get games working at 50% of the performance of Windows.