I was one of the beta testers for HG2 and I have to say that Loki did a GREAT job getting this game to Linux. They had to port it from D3D to OpenGL, SDL had to come up with joystick drivers (which they did), plus they had to work with the Mesa people and the GCC people to make some changes to the base tools. It's this kind of work that is only going to make Linux better.
As one of the beta testers one of the most dissapointing part of WP2K was that is runs under Wine. Linux has more than enough momentum that it should not have to revert to emulation for major apps. My experiences with it on average user machines (K6 300 to PII 300), are slow and a general feeling that it's out of place.
I was really looking forward to this, but after seeing it I am very disappointed, and probably won't bother to buy it...
I believe that Blizzard made a comment once that once one of Loki's titles hit 50,000 units sold they would consider allowing a port. Don't know if that's happened or not, but I would assume so with CTP and Quake3.
I've actually seen a couple different species of programmers.
There are those who are very creative. To these people the creation of the solution can be the real hubris. They live for the art of programming. The code on the screen isn't just a bunch of syntax and variables, but a mosaic of various tools that when properly formed create something beautiful and functional.
The second type I've seen are those who are technically geniuses but could care less (nor are they skilled this way) about creativity. To them effeciency and procedure are the only values that matter.
This is the freakiest thing I have seen in a long time. I cannot believe that the article mentions Frankenstein at the end. Didn't we learn anything from Mary Shelley?
Just checked in on http://crack.linuxppc.org. It's getting quite a few hits. I love the one status update though:
Aug 6 1999 part 4 12:38AM CDT: At a rate of 2 million packets per hour/ someone appears to be using a brute force method to guess the passwords. Does this kind of attack count? Unfortunatly, they are trying to telnet in as root:) D'oh!
Whether or not you like the fact that Red Hat and Caldera commercialize Linux, the fact remains that they are the best hope at getting Linux accepted into corporate situations. As a matter a fact I can tell you right now that my employer (a department within the State of Minnesota) would not have accepted us switching the Web Server and some database servers to Linux if it hadn't been for the fact that companies like Red Hat existed and we could go and buy a $50 CD. It's that tangible "thing" that calms the fears of CIOs.
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I was one of the beta testers for HG2 and I have to say that Loki did a GREAT job getting this game to Linux. They had to port it from D3D to OpenGL, SDL had to come up with joystick drivers (which they did), plus they had to work with the Mesa people and the GCC people to make some changes to the base tools. It's this kind of work that is only going to make Linux better.
As one of the beta testers one of the most dissapointing part of WP2K was that is runs under Wine. Linux has more than enough momentum that it should not have to revert to emulation for major apps. My experiences with it on average user machines (K6 300 to PII 300), are slow and a general feeling that it's out of place.
I was really looking forward to this, but after seeing it I am very disappointed, and probably won't bother to buy it...
I believe that Blizzard made a comment once that once one of Loki's titles hit 50,000 units sold they would consider allowing a port. Don't know if that's happened or not, but I would assume so with CTP and Quake3.
I've actually seen a couple different species of programmers.
There are those who are very creative. To these people the creation of the solution can be the real hubris. They live for the art of programming. The code on the screen isn't just a bunch of syntax and variables, but a mosaic of various tools that when properly formed create something beautiful and functional.
The second type I've seen are those who are technically geniuses but could care less (nor are they skilled this way) about creativity. To them effeciency and procedure are the only values that matter.
In the end though they still are just human.
Ok stop the planet I want to get off...
This is the freakiest thing I have seen in a long time. I cannot believe that the article mentions Frankenstein at the end. Didn't we learn anything from Mary Shelley?
I don't think "beta" is the issue. Supposedly Redmond is running all their internal services on W2K so it's pretty much production anyway.
Just checked in on http://crack.linuxppc.org. It's getting quite a few hits. I love the one status update though:
:) D'oh!
Aug 6 1999 part 4 12:38AM CDT:
At a rate of 2 million packets per hour/ someone appears to be using a brute force method to guess the passwords. Does this kind of attack count? Unfortunatly, they are trying to telnet in as root
Gotta love it...
Since Brian is so hooked with Voodoo Extreme my money is on 3dfx.
Whether or not you like the fact that Red Hat and Caldera commercialize Linux, the fact remains that they are the best hope at getting Linux accepted into corporate situations. As a matter a fact I can tell you right now that my employer (a department within the State of Minnesota) would not have accepted us switching the Web Server and some database servers to Linux if it hadn't been for the fact that companies like Red Hat existed and we could go and buy a $50 CD. It's that tangible "thing" that calms the fears of CIOs.