Well something is a hell of a lot better then nothing. One less thing on the Transgaming vote polls that's what I say. I'm sure they didn't have to make Linux binary, they could have made out just fine with just a Win32 version of the game for that matter. Besides I could buy it and play it here at work join my lunch breaks, then I could play it at home on my PC (Red Hat 7.3 only) shortly after. Just like I did with Unreal Tournament and Quake 3(but I paid for the Linux version).
If it's good and it's something I would use, then yeah I'll buy it. Hey don't get me wrong I love free, but I also think people need to get paid for there work.
For RedHat, MandrakeSoft, Lycoris (Redmond Linux), Xandros and any other distro leader out they're to get involved to make Linux a better place for the average user. It would be nice to be able to click on a ONE link to download a program/driver off the net and not have search though this list. I'm sorry but it's time for a change... It's hard for every day people install programs and It's a pain for developers to repackage there binaries over for each distro. If you have time people check out Fiorina:
Linux not a threat to Microsoft on cnet. You'll it under January 30, 2002 but there Fiorina talks about how we are fighting Microsoft, but she saying what I been trying to tell my friends all this time.
We need to build a better desktop and stop bitching about Microsoft. We need to put our time into something better besides bitching about Microsoft because the only way we can beat them is to build something cleaner, faster, easier and better then what they have now. So MandrakeSoft, Lycoris and Xandros you want the to be the king of the desktop well you better to start looking that the LSB 1.1 because you are not going to get anywhere with your just putting the newest KDE, GNOME and X11 on a CD and calling it Linux 8.x. I can tell you one thing I had a friend that switch back to Windows because it was as hell to install programs and to get his hardware configure. I was helping him maintain his system, but when I got busy with doing work on the weekends trying to help my friend out on this website I couldn't be their to help him with his system. The sad thing is I'm very happy to see that he switch back to Windows, hell I been using Linux for 2 1/2 years( no duel booting for 1 1/2 year ) and been thinking about it myself. I been paying for games/software and supporting the companies out there but it's not doing any good if you got some open source bigots are going to warez sites or newgrounds for close source software for Linux that's not GPL or FREE. Flame or mod me down if you like, I'm just saying what's on my mind. I'm a programmer for a CBT company and I love programming, but I got bills to pay. In the end it's all about money and what's the next big thing.
Well I want to, hell I could tell you that much. Why? Because I put up with the long waits and the download the binaries and shit like all because I wanted a choice when I turn on my x86 PC. I wouldn't mind walking into a story and buying a Linux game but it's not like that now. If it's anything I want right now is for Linux to become a real altivate to Windows. I even stopped duel booting a 1 1/2 ago all because of I wanted to wait and not even give in to buying Win32 games.
So why haven't remove Linux and put back on Windows? 1) I'm sorry but I don't want to be watch over by MS, because they are known for dirty tricks. Being in the tech world and hearing the stories that I head about them makes anyone think twice. 2) MS is to a point where the could do easily force upgrades and start making people rent there OS. So I figure I must be ready for that to happen. 3) I feel that I have more control over my system with Linux. I like being about to telnet into my PC just to finish setting up my joystick. I've been using Linux for 2 1/2 years and I still found stuff I haven't learned. Hell there is stuff out there that I want to try that I didn't get around to.
So whom do we get mad at? The porting houses like Loki? The gaming companies like id Software, Blizzard and Value? What about Microsoft? No! All we can do is blame our selves for something like this. We have open up people! I mean let's start with the easier install of programs and better the update managers on our systems. Soon as the new KDE or GNOME is out I would press a button and update or just download the install from the web not wait for the next Redhat 7.3, Mandrake 8.2 or SuSe 7.4 release. Let's better document for new users as in now just KDE or GNOME but the programs that come with them or users download. Come let's take time out to help newbies on IRC, newsgroups and message boards. I drop by linuxnewbie.org just to help people sometimes myself. Without the people of tomorrow we are nothing, just remember that. All I can do is help people out on message borads, because I don't know any C/C++ and that I would like to take classes first before I start jumping on open source prjects.
So, for all you poor souls who lined up to give money to the borg: does it work? Any blue-screens yet?
Yeah I don't like MS and I been a Linux user for 2 years not, but that don't mean I'm not going to go out and bash them left and right. Hell try out the Xbox and see if you like it. I don't like the price and the feel of most games because it's to PC like, but on the other hand I do like the joystick. When it comes to a game console it all comes down to is the games. Not what companies release the game console. Even though I would want Microsoft to get a hold the console market.
People will not stop dueling booting why? The last time I check it was from the lack of games/apps that ran under Linux that user need/bind to. Id Software and Loki were the only ones I seen really push Linux as a gaming platform from the start. Now using WineX is that a bad thing? It's all in the way you look at it. There are things I think about like MS trying to change up the API but they can't do that without breaking all the older versions of DirectX. Or one of the main things I think about is seeing Linux basic games in the future being nothing more then WineX games or Wine compliable games. Now think about now many Linux users will go for that in the long run? But lets not look at the bad side of things let's start thinking about the good things WineX could do...
1. If game developers see that they can port there game over to Linux using WineX with a simple recompile and some tweaks then they'll do it. Maybe if the company has good sales they will put more time into making the game native.
2. They could write most of the code native and mix with it some if the Windows/WineLib APIs.
3. Developers could use the Winelib then over time make the game truly native.
That's just want I thinking, I don't know what the future holds for both TG and Loki but only time will tell. I'm not going to sit there and say that Linux gaming is doomed before we know it.
If there is one thing I hate the most is when people bash Microsoft just because they don't like that. Hell I don't like them all too much but I'm not going to put down something I don't know about like some *nix users do on this site. I know about Microsoft's past and I see what they are planning to do with the future. Put developers will not let Microsoft control the future of the Internet like they plan on doing with.Net and Hailstorm. Microsoft is not stopping me from using Linux and supporting Linux base companies. I don't sit there and call him oddball names like M$ and Micro$oft and shit like that. I think that's pointless and it soon how much of a dumbass you are when you do something like that in the first place. I figure if people what to use Linux they will speak up or install it themselves. We need to think about our OS... f*ck there's! All I do is let people know that there is another operating system out there besides Windows or show them Linux and tell them what it's about. I don't flame MS and tell people about how much they computer crash a day.
Sometimes I like to see what people think of it. It's the first day out, so I'll like to hear people soon or later. Also I would like to play with it more, my friend had the beta install at this house and I play with that last weekend. I think it's very nice, I haven't seen it crash, and it has some cool extras and its very X11 feeling. As a Linux user I feel that I have to know something about the other operating system too just to stay up to date with Microsoft latest and greats. I not going to go off and put down something that I don't anything or next to nothing about. With me I like to mainly try out something like that for myself. I'm not going to be close-minded and just bash them because it's MS.
The sad thing is that I been using Linux for 2 years and if I do install another version of Windows I won't have no software for it. I only have Linux games, and CD burning software and development/server tools were came with the distro I downloaded. I could are less for paying $199-$299 for a copy of XP. I don't want to start paying for upgrades and patches when I didn't have to. I have everything I need in Linux now, but I have to say for something that is getting a new computer or upgrading from Windows 9x it could be a good thing. Yeah I don't like that fact that it phones home to Microsoft but I think it's a great OS and more power to them.
If you need Windows apps then use Windows... If you need Linux apps then use Linux. I see that it's kind of pointless to have something like that in the first place. You can just download ISOs of any distro of your liking then download Wine, there you go Linux + WINE = Lindows. Lindows is something that I will not pay $99 dollars for but then again that's just me. Why you might ask? Well I can do a lot with $99 dollars!
1. I could buy Win4Lin and still have money left over.
2. Support the Transgaming and once you think of it that's a lot of votes. =)
3. I could buy a GeForce 2 MX and play games better in both Windows or Linux.
4. I can buy an MS Windows Upgrade!
5. I could buy VMware Personal Edition.
That's all I can think of off the top of my head. I'm a full time Linux user and I have no need for any Windows apps for the time being, but if I did I'll install Windows. Then again who knows I could an idea OS for power users that duel boot a lot. I'll have to see something I like about the OS before I pay $99 dollars.
I been using Mandrake 8.1 for the last 2 weeks and let me tell you I love it. I think Mandrakesoft out done a great job putting Mandrake 8.1 together. It is so easy to configure your network, change boot loaders, install/remove software and download updates. Everything you need all in one place! Now I been a Linux user for two years and sometimes you just want junk to work without trying to figure out every little thing. I know if anyone who want to start using Linux I would give them a copy of Mandrake hell I'm going to buy Mandrake 8.1 when it hit stores. Just to show my support and even if you don't like Mandrake Linux I think everyone need to still support there disros of choice.
A simple RPM or TGZ file from the Nvidia website fixes all that. For me to install the Nvidia drivers I just download them from the site, install the RPMs(kpackager or GNOME RPM for newbies) and fire up the game. Don't make it sound harder then what it is.
Loki is trying to get away from that. If there would have been a cross compatible binary the same that that happen with Quake 3 would have happen with Tribes 2. When I got Quake 3 for Windows I knew that I could get the binaries later for Linux. So when you have people just like me that started to think like that...It isn't pretty. I when out and got the Linux version later because I'm always in Linux 98% of the time compare to Windows as it is. Hell I figure if a Mac user could wait then we can too. It's good to see that you waited for the game just like I did man, but if I was you I would cross compatible binaries of your wish list when it when it comes to Linux gaming for the time being. It's just not going to work...
We don't need this GNOME Vs KDE junk. Besides I use both of them plus there apps. I am using KDE 2.1 now but I'll be sure to download the new GNOME and try it out. I used GNOME when I first got into Linux a long time ago. So stop with all this is better then that, it's not going to get you know where. The GNOME and KDE team are working together in some areas. Why do I care which one is better when MS owns 90% of the desktop... I have you ever compare the Windows 9x desktop to GNOME and KDE?
Same thing I am doing... I still like FPS games but I mosly do it for the companies that are supporting Linux. I understand how you feel and I still got my Windows boot for little things... I feel once I get Vmware working it will be over with... I buy Linux games and Linux only, I had someone call me up today and said "Hey I heard you got Sim City 3000". I smile and said yeah I got it "But it only runs under Linux." I talk to the kid for a long time. I told him that all my games that I got run under Linux and how I don't plan on getting any Win32 games. He's interested in see my Linux box because I got one of his friends to install it not to long ago(that's a different story). Even if he had Linux I would tell him to buy the game and not copy it from me to support the Linux movement. I do it for the love of the OS, most of my friends don't understand that.
As for the games I have:
SimCity 3000
Myth2
Soldier of Fortune
Quake 3(with Team Arena)
Heretic 2
Eric's Ultimate Solitaire
My friend got me Mechwarrior 4(by Microsoft) for X-mas, so I fix that by getting him Lin4Win(by Mandrakesoft). =)He didn't install Lin4Win and I didn't install MW4, I figure I could keep it for the D3D they are adding in the WINE project.
I figure if we the people don't show our support for games on Linux then we will never get them. Most of the people including my friend hop on net and download the game that they want if they don't feel like paying for it. The internet is full with cracks and games if you know where to look.
Linux will make a great gaming platform. I could list the things...
1. No rebooting
2. No defragment tools for hardrive
3. Very tweekable and toonable.
I like these things when it comes to gaming in Linux because not only I could upgrade my kernel but also my X11 and Nvidia 3D drivers as well tweeking my system to the max. I can't wait for that wait when I could drive to BestBuy and pick up a copy of a good game. Into then I will keep order games off of Loki's website.
I figure some MS folks are on this site reading this as I smile because I'm happy to see IBMs move. The people at Microsoft do not understand that to win people over(like IBM is doing) is not by fighting and buying companies out. It's giving back to the people so they will love you for it.
Things are diffirent from the way it use to be. When you got a computer back in the old days it came with DOS of all forms. Now people that pay for a PC at Bestbuy and take it home don't know that MS is doing it not for them but only for themselfs. These people don't know that... they are blind and they don't see that there are hurting other companies. That's why I think it's good that IBM is making Linux ads.
A long time a go I didn't know of Linux, I was thinking MS as the way and the only way. There are people who never heard of Linux and from it being more a *nix makes it even better. People are able to do things that they wouldn't ever be able to do with Windows and at the same time don't have to pay for half of there server and develment tools that they will get for free. When there is a day where Microsoft plays fair that's when I'll be happy to boot up there goods. Into then Linux is the place to be...Why some may ask? It's the people that's making it better, MS don't know what we want... IBM do and there are about to start flashing the light in other people eyes. Thank you IBM and all there staff for supporting the backers of Linux right along with the Linux movement.
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You could use Linux for more then a server. I use it for a workstation and playing games as well. Yeah I don't get that many games, but Linux could be used for gaming, office, server... Linux could be a box for the family, it's whatever people make it is what I'm trying to say...
I guess I have to give the new kenrel a run then. I wasn't sure if the 9-6 drivers supported the new kernel...I looked in the FAQ and I didn't see nothing...
It would be nice to have Flash 5 huh? You have to understand that if the Linux people care about Flash, they would have made something of there own by now. Look at it like this:
Flash 5 - Don't care about right now.
Dreamweaver 4 - Got programs in Linux can do the same.
Fireworks 4 - Got the GIMP and with the right plug-ins...You have some great looking GFX.
It's not going to take long before the Linux/BSD have the only little program like Flash... Oh just between me and you. I have a friend that's plan on a cross plateform tool like Flash sooner or later. I got him Linux for X-mas(later paid for RedHat 7 Workstation tho) and he started programming some stuff for Linux. I figure if Macromeida don't want to port there stuff then fine... It will be hard for them to jump into Linux a year or two from now.
As for me I work at a CBT company using Director, Flash, Fireworks, and etc. If you ask me Macromedia makes some great easy to learn software. I would like to see Macromedia port some of there stuff over to Linux, but like always I don't plan on seeing it any time soon.
P.S: As for my friend little program? It's still it the works and I seen some of the stuff that is done now...
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Damn, I guess that's why I could tel-net into my computer this morning huh?
Well something is a hell of a lot better then nothing. One less thing on the Transgaming vote polls that's what I say. I'm sure they didn't have to make Linux binary, they could have made out just fine with just a Win32 version of the game for that matter. Besides I could buy it and play it here at work join my lunch breaks, then I could play it at home on my PC (Red Hat 7.3 only) shortly after. Just like I did with Unreal Tournament and Quake 3(but I paid for the Linux version).
If it's good and it's something I would use, then yeah I'll buy it. Hey don't get me wrong I love free, but I also think people need to get paid for there work.
For RedHat, MandrakeSoft, Lycoris (Redmond Linux), Xandros and any other distro leader out they're to get involved to make Linux a better place for the average user. It would be nice to be able to click on a ONE link to download a program/driver off the net and not have search though this list. I'm sorry but it's time for a change... It's hard for every day people install programs and It's a pain for developers to repackage there binaries over for each distro. If you have time people check out Fiorina:
Linux not a threat to Microsoft on cnet. You'll it under January 30, 2002 but there Fiorina talks about how we are fighting Microsoft, but she saying what I been trying to tell my friends all this time.
We need to build a better desktop and stop bitching about Microsoft. We need to put our time into something better besides bitching about Microsoft because the only way we can beat them is to build something cleaner, faster, easier and better then what they have now. So MandrakeSoft, Lycoris and Xandros you want the to be the king of the desktop well you better to start looking that the LSB 1.1 because you are not going to get anywhere with your just putting the newest KDE, GNOME and X11 on a CD and calling it Linux 8.x. I can tell you one thing I had a friend that switch back to Windows because it was as hell to install programs and to get his hardware configure. I was helping him maintain his system, but when I got busy with doing work on the weekends trying to help my friend out on this website I couldn't be their to help him with his system. The sad thing is I'm very happy to see that he switch back to Windows, hell I been using Linux for 2 1/2 years( no duel booting for 1 1/2 year ) and been thinking about it myself. I been paying for games/software and supporting the companies out there but it's not doing any good if you got some open source bigots are going to warez sites or newgrounds for close source software for Linux that's not GPL or FREE. Flame or mod me down if you like, I'm just saying what's on my mind. I'm a programmer for a CBT company and I love programming, but I got bills to pay. In the end it's all about money and what's the next big thing.
Well I want to, hell I could tell you that much. Why? Because I put up with the long waits and the download the binaries and shit like all because I wanted a choice when I turn on my x86 PC. I wouldn't mind walking into a story and buying a Linux game but it's not like that now. If it's anything I want right now is for Linux to become a real altivate to Windows. I even stopped duel booting a 1 1/2 ago all because of I wanted to wait and not even give in to buying Win32 games.
So why haven't remove Linux and put back on Windows? 1) I'm sorry but I don't want to be watch over by MS, because they are known for dirty tricks. Being in the tech world and hearing the stories that I head about them makes anyone think twice. 2) MS is to a point where the could do easily force upgrades and start making people rent there OS. So I figure I must be ready for that to happen. 3) I feel that I have more control over my system with Linux. I like being about to telnet into my PC just to finish setting up my joystick. I've been using Linux for 2 1/2 years and I still found stuff I haven't learned. Hell there is stuff out there that I want to try that I didn't get around to.
So whom do we get mad at? The porting houses like Loki? The gaming companies like id Software, Blizzard and Value? What about Microsoft? No! All we can do is blame our selves for something like this. We have open up people! I mean let's start with the easier install of programs and better the update managers on our systems. Soon as the new KDE or GNOME is out I would press a button and update or just download the install from the web not wait for the next Redhat 7.3, Mandrake 8.2 or SuSe 7.4 release. Let's better document for new users as in now just KDE or GNOME but the programs that come with them or users download. Come let's take time out to help newbies on IRC, newsgroups and message boards. I drop by linuxnewbie.org just to help people sometimes myself. Without the people of tomorrow we are nothing, just remember that. All I can do is help people out on message borads, because I don't know any C/C++ and that I would like to take classes first before I start jumping on open source prjects.
So, for all you poor souls who lined up to give money to the borg: does it work? Any blue-screens yet?
Yeah I don't like MS and I been a Linux user for 2 years not, but that don't mean I'm not going to go out and bash them left and right. Hell try out the Xbox and see if you like it. I don't like the price and the feel of most games because it's to PC like, but on the other hand I do like the joystick. When it comes to a game console it all comes down to is the games. Not what companies release the game console. Even though I would want Microsoft to get a hold the console market.
People will not stop dueling booting why? The last time I check it was from the lack of games/apps that ran under Linux that user need/bind to. Id Software and Loki were the only ones I seen really push Linux as a gaming platform from the start. Now using WineX is that a bad thing? It's all in the way you look at it. There are things I think about like MS trying to change up the API but they can't do that without breaking all the older versions of DirectX. Or one of the main things I think about is seeing Linux basic games in the future being nothing more then WineX games or Wine compliable games. Now think about now many Linux users will go for that in the long run? But lets not look at the bad side of things let's start thinking about the good things WineX could do...
1. If game developers see that they can port there game over to Linux using WineX with a simple recompile and some tweaks then they'll do it. Maybe if the company has good sales they will put more time into making the game native.
2. They could write most of the code native and mix with it some if the Windows/WineLib APIs.
3. Developers could use the Winelib then over time make the game truly native.
That's just want I thinking, I don't know what the future holds for both TG and Loki but only time will tell. I'm not going to sit there and say that Linux gaming is doomed before we know it.
If there is one thing I hate the most is when people bash Microsoft just because they don't like that. Hell I don't like them all too much but I'm not going to put down something I don't know about like some *nix users do on this site. I know about Microsoft's past and I see what they are planning to do with the future. Put developers will not let Microsoft control the future of the Internet like they plan on doing with .Net and Hailstorm. Microsoft is not stopping me from using Linux and supporting Linux base companies. I don't sit there and call him oddball names like M$ and Micro$oft and shit like that. I think that's pointless and it soon how much of a dumbass you are when you do something like that in the first place. I figure if people what to use Linux they will speak up or install it themselves. We need to think about our OS... f*ck there's! All I do is let people know that there is another operating system out there besides Windows or show them Linux and tell them what it's about. I don't flame MS and tell people about how much they computer crash a day.
Sometimes I like to see what people think of it. It's the first day out, so I'll like to hear people soon or later. Also I would like to play with it more, my friend had the beta install at this house and I play with that last weekend. I think it's very nice, I haven't seen it crash, and it has some cool extras and its very X11 feeling. As a Linux user I feel that I have to know something about the other operating system too just to stay up to date with Microsoft latest and greats. I not going to go off and put down something that I don't anything or next to nothing about. With me I like to mainly try out something like that for myself. I'm not going to be close-minded and just bash them because it's MS.
The sad thing is that I been using Linux for 2 years and if I do install another version of Windows I won't have no software for it. I only have Linux games, and CD burning software and development/server tools were came with the distro I downloaded. I could are less for paying $199-$299 for a copy of XP. I don't want to start paying for upgrades and patches when I didn't have to. I have everything I need in Linux now, but I have to say for something that is getting a new computer or upgrading from Windows 9x it could be a good thing. Yeah I don't like that fact that it phones home to Microsoft but I think it's a great OS and more power to them.
With the latest verison of WINE I install Half-Life
If you need Windows apps then use Windows... If you need Linux apps then use Linux. I see that it's kind of pointless to have something like that in the first place. You can just download ISOs of any distro of your liking then download Wine, there you go Linux + WINE = Lindows. Lindows is something that I will not pay $99 dollars for but then again that's just me. Why you might ask? Well I can do a lot with $99 dollars!
1. I could buy Win4Lin and still have money left over.
2. Support the Transgaming and once you think of it that's a lot of votes. =)
3. I could buy a GeForce 2 MX and play games better in both Windows or Linux.
4. I can buy an MS Windows Upgrade!
5. I could buy VMware Personal Edition.
That's all I can think of off the top of my head. I'm a full time Linux user and I have no need for any Windows apps for the time being, but if I did I'll install Windows. Then again who knows I could an idea OS for power users that duel boot a lot. I'll have to see something I like about the OS before I pay $99 dollars.
I been using Mandrake 8.1 for the last 2 weeks and let me tell you I love it. I think Mandrakesoft out done a great job putting Mandrake 8.1 together. It is so easy to configure your network, change boot loaders, install/remove software and download updates. Everything you need all in one place! Now I been a Linux user for two years and sometimes you just want junk to work without trying to figure out every little thing. I know if anyone who want to start using Linux I would give them a copy of Mandrake hell I'm going to buy Mandrake 8.1 when it hit stores. Just to show my support and even if you don't like Mandrake Linux I think everyone need to still support there disros of choice.
I was thinking it wouldn't be long before someone at Loki goes Postal.
Tuxgames or the Lokigames website.
All I can say is look into SDL. It's what Loki use for there games. Go to there web site for more info.
www.lokigames.com
A simple RPM or TGZ file from the Nvidia website fixes all that. For me to install the Nvidia drivers I just download them from the site, install the RPMs(kpackager or GNOME RPM for newbies) and fire up the game. Don't make it sound harder then what it is.
And from all us niggaz... fuck you too. If you ask me now that's love.
=P
Loki is trying to get away from that. If there would have been a cross compatible binary the same that that happen with Quake 3 would have happen with Tribes 2. When I got Quake 3 for Windows I knew that I could get the binaries later for Linux. So when you have people just like me that started to think like that...It isn't pretty. I when out and got the Linux version later because I'm always in Linux 98% of the time compare to Windows as it is. Hell I figure if a Mac user could wait then we can too. It's good to see that you waited for the game just like I did man, but if I was you I would cross compatible binaries of your wish list when it when it comes to Linux gaming for the time being. It's just not going to work...
We don't need this GNOME Vs KDE junk. Besides I use both of them plus there apps. I am using KDE 2.1 now but I'll be sure to download the new GNOME and try it out. I used GNOME when I first got into Linux a long time ago. So stop with all this is better then that, it's not going to get you know where. The GNOME and KDE team are working together in some areas. Why do I care which one is better when MS owns 90% of the desktop... I have you ever compare the Windows 9x desktop to GNOME and KDE?
Same thing I am doing... I still like FPS games but I mosly do it for the companies that are supporting Linux. I understand how you feel and I still got my Windows boot for little things... I feel once I get Vmware working it will be over with... I buy Linux games and Linux only, I had someone call me up today and said "Hey I heard you got Sim City 3000". I smile and said yeah I got it "But it only runs under Linux." I talk to the kid for a long time. I told him that all my games that I got run under Linux and how I don't plan on getting any Win32 games. He's interested in see my Linux box because I got one of his friends to install it not to long ago(that's a different story). Even if he had Linux I would tell him to buy the game and not copy it from me to support the Linux movement. I do it for the love of the OS, most of my friends don't understand that.
As for the games I have:
SimCity 3000
Myth2
Soldier of Fortune
Quake 3(with Team Arena)
Heretic 2
Eric's Ultimate Solitaire
My friend got me Mechwarrior 4(by Microsoft) for X-mas, so I fix that by getting him Lin4Win(by Mandrakesoft). =)He didn't install Lin4Win and I didn't install MW4, I figure I could keep it for the D3D they are adding in the WINE project.
I figure if we the people don't show our support for games on Linux then we will never get them. Most of the people including my friend hop on net and download the game that they want if they don't feel like paying for it. The internet is full with cracks and games if you know where to look.
Linux will make a great gaming platform. I could list the things...
1. No rebooting
2. No defragment tools for hardrive
3. Very tweekable and toonable.
I like these things when it comes to gaming in Linux because not only I could upgrade my kernel but also my X11 and Nvidia 3D drivers as well tweeking my system to the max. I can't wait for that wait when I could drive to BestBuy and pick up a copy of a good game. Into then I will keep order games off of Loki's website.
I figure some MS folks are on this site reading this as I smile because I'm happy to see IBMs move. The people at Microsoft do not understand that to win people over(like IBM is doing) is not by fighting and buying companies out. It's giving back to the people so they will love you for it.
Things are diffirent from the way it use to be. When you got a computer back in the old days it came with DOS of all forms. Now people that pay for a PC at Bestbuy and take it home don't know that MS is doing it not for them but only for themselfs. These people don't know that... they are blind and they don't see that there are hurting other companies. That's why I think it's good that IBM is making Linux ads.
A long time a go I didn't know of Linux, I was thinking MS as the way and the only way. There are people who never heard of Linux and from it being more a *nix makes it even better. People are able to do things that they wouldn't ever be able to do with Windows and at the same time don't have to pay for half of there server and develment tools that they will get for free. When there is a day where Microsoft plays fair that's when I'll be happy to boot up there goods. Into then Linux is the place to be...Why some may ask? It's the people that's making it better, MS don't know what we want... IBM do and there are about to start flashing the light in other people eyes. Thank you IBM and all there staff for supporting the backers of Linux right along with the Linux movement.
No way in HELL will I ever run a server for a game that I don't have the client...that's final!
[br] You could use Linux for more then a server. I use it for a workstation and playing games as well. Yeah I don't get that many games, but Linux could be used for gaming, office, server... Linux could be a box for the family, it's whatever people make it is what I'm trying to say...
I guess I have to give the new kenrel a run then. I wasn't sure if the 9-6 drivers supported the new kernel...I looked in the FAQ and I didn't see nothing...
Because she was about money and she looked good. I when back to the my to see here but she took a higher paying job. =P
It would be nice to have Flash 5 huh? You have to understand that if the Linux people care about Flash, they would have made something of there own by now. Look at it like this:
Flash 5 - Don't care about right now.
Dreamweaver 4 - Got programs in Linux can do the same.
Fireworks 4 - Got the GIMP and with the right plug-ins...You have some great looking GFX.
It's not going to take long before the Linux/BSD have the only little program like Flash... Oh just between me and you. I have a friend that's plan on a cross plateform tool like Flash sooner or later. I got him Linux for X-mas(later paid for RedHat 7 Workstation tho) and he started programming some stuff for Linux. I figure if Macromeida don't want to port there stuff then fine... It will be hard for them to jump into Linux a year or two from now.
As for me I work at a CBT company using Director, Flash, Fireworks, and etc. If you ask me Macromedia makes some great easy to learn software. I would like to see Macromedia port some of there stuff over to Linux, but like always I don't plan on seeing it any time soon.
P.S: As for my friend little program? It's still it the works and I seen some of the stuff that is done now...