Probally because we have...for the last 6 months...weekly
ATi straight out refuses to even respond, nothing offical, just 'leaked information' we have to dig up from alt.ati newsgroups.
And the BS I'm seeing on this page about "ATi has been releasing the specs to the XFree developers" is one of the biggest bags of poo...
Just read the Slo-Tech interview with Richard Huddy. Search the page for "linux" and this is what you get...
Slo-Tech: When will ATI provide open source (Linux) developers with information about yours hardware so that they will be able to write drivers instead of reverse engineer them?
Richard Huddy: ATI gives Linux drivers quite a high priority - but there's just way too much intellectual property exposed in the low level chip interfaces so we don't put that into the public domain. I'm amazed that people can really reverse engineer drivers from our binaries - but I guess that shows just how keen the Linux community is to get the best out of their machines. Sorry I can't offer more on this!
I otherwords "Thanks for all the hard work you fuxers, now take your open source shicht and go play with yourself because we are not going to help!"
I only listed 4 because I did not want to be listing them all day. it's still a young market but it has a steady increase as more and more games are released for Linux. Mac has a few more released titles, but there are a lot of projects that make Linux more of a gaming platform then Mac. I've been seeing more titles released for Linux then Mac's recently.
ATi refuses to see this and devote all thier time making thier Windows customers happy over and over and over again...Fine with me, if ATi does not want to contribute we can always stick with nVidia who makes good drivers for thier hardware
I guess so, but it's been almost a year-and-a-half now. The 1.0 was released January 2002
Good to see they fixed the pricing problem, only $49.95 for the OS and another $49.95/year for the click-n-run
But I can't find the individual pricing for the click-n=run on their site, the best I can find is the Lindows Plus ($49.95 value) which includes the C-n-R for one year
This guy has no idea what he's talking about claiming that ATi makes good drivers for Linux...they barely have ANY drivers for Linux. They have 2 RPMs, one for xfree4.1 and one for xfree4.2...xfree4.3 has be available for 6 months and they don't have squat for it. Unless you trust a third party driver for a card that is not even a Radeon, I would much rather see the CHIP MAKER releasing any kind of driver that works...binary or not
Not to mention these are only good for RPM based distros, if you are running something like Debian, Slackware or Gentoo you will need to futz around with Alien so you can even attempt to use the damn thing!
Not all of use care about linux though. There aren't even any of the latest games being released on it to make use of high end graphics.
Some people do care and they do not care how far your head is shoved up your...
Ever hear of Unreal Tournament 2003/2004, Doom 3 or Neverwinter Nights? All are high graphic games that demand the use of high end graphic cards
Both Apple and Dell are guilty of using misleading prices. For example, Apple gives the price of the low-end G5 as "$1999", and the high-end G5 as "$2999". In other words, they have subtracted $1 from a $3000 computer to make it seem cheaper, which is absolutely ridiculous. This demonstrates that both Apple and Dell are willing to mislead people when stating their prices.
Geez, that's so tricky of them, I fell for it!!
Fools, this is not something that Dell or Apple invented, this has been a standard marketing trick for at least 50 years if not more...and EVERYONE does it!
Eli still works for Marvel...will wonders never cease?
I'm getting very tired of people throwing around IP as a reason to sue someone...the only people making money in these hard economic times are Realtors and Lawyers!
If they are suing people for making a "likeness" of their characters, I know a few Marvel artists that should be sued for making a butchery of the characters in some of the comics!
Amazing, considering that the NWN Linux Client is on Beta 6 and not yet official...
I do see a post on the forums stateing "Shadows of Unrentide will run fine in Linux"
I'm still waiting until the Linux client is official before I even consider NWN...major turn down for me is the lack of FMV, the movies might not be important but I'm a story driven person and missing parts of the story just to play the game doesn't fly with me, I'll wait for the "Directors Cut"
Red Hat 9 back-ported a disk scheduler which is a dog. either download this 2.4.21 vanilla kernel and compile it or recompile the default RH9 kerenl and remove the scheduler (I believe it is under General, been a while since I looked at this...the option right after the CPU info)
Apperently you have never played America's Army...
If you thought telling the teams apart in CS is difficult! In AA the difference between the teams is a camo pattern on your team and a flat pattern on the enemy...try to tell the difference in the dark and from a distance.
But have any of you stopped to wonder why it is that video games are often so violent?
Too often this question is asked and every time no one likes the answer
Human Nature. Humans have a genetic trait of self destruction, since the beginning of time humans have killed other humans.
You can not blame video games on Cain killing his brother Able, in the Bible. God did not flood the world to kill off everyone because they were playing too much Quake.
Jesus wasn't put on the cross to die slowly because he had a 100/1 kill/death ratio
Enough with the biblical references, I'm not even religious...
Alexander the Great did not conquer most of Europe because he lost his 55th level mage in Everquest
Jack the Ripper didn't kill prostitutes because he was busted with hacks too many times ok, no one knows why he did it...but I doubt it was violent games)
IF you must try to figure out why games are getting more violent, it is most likely the Human thirst for death. If it can be made more realistic, lets do it to satisfy that genetic craving. Most serial killers never played a violent game in their life, but they were seriously mentally disturbed.
These stories where the "kid that play violent games killed someone" is FUD created by those that can not handle the fact that someone was mentally insane or had that natural urge to kill. They need to treat the problem, not the first excuse they can think of
Everyone is defensive of THEIR hobby and are secretly afraid they have been screwed up somehow.
You figured us out...we are scarred to death that because of violent games, we ourselves are more likely to kill someone over a friggin' cookie. We all will one day go on a 'killing spree' and you will see thousands of over-weight, out-of-shape, pale skined, homicidal manics running around yelling "Damn Lag!" and "You stole my kill!"
SCO sues IBM
SCO threatens 1500 Linux 'users'
Linus says SCO is full of it and wants proof
Novell knocks SCO on the head for being ID10T's
SCO threatens Linus if they don't receive the ransom^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H licenses
Microsoft funds SCO, but claims it was 'business as usual'
The Windows partitioning/resizing tool with Mandrake 9.1 is excellent. I used it to resize the WindowsXP partition on my laptop...and then loaded Red Hat 9 on the space I made available =)
Mandrake seems to "candy coated" for my tastes and half the tools did not work for me, I have a lot more experiance with Red Hat and it fits my desktop tastes better...then there's Gentoo using Fluxbox, but that's another story;-)
The Fallout rules were based off of GURPS and by the time Fallout was finally released, they made so many changes they could not release the game under the GURPS license.
I though the final rules in Fallout were so much better then GURPS anyway =)
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Probally because we have...for the last 6 months...weekly
ATi straight out refuses to even respond, nothing offical, just 'leaked information' we have to dig up from alt.ati newsgroups.
And the BS I'm seeing on this page about "ATi has been releasing the specs to the XFree developers" is one of the biggest bags of poo...
Just read the Slo-Tech interview with Richard Huddy. Search the page for "linux" and this is what you get...
Slo-Tech: When will ATI provide open source (Linux) developers with information about yours hardware so that they will be able to write drivers instead of reverse engineer them?
Richard Huddy: ATI gives Linux drivers quite a high priority - but there's just way too much intellectual property exposed in the low level chip interfaces so we don't put that into the public domain. I'm amazed that people can really reverse engineer drivers from our binaries - but I guess that shows just how keen the Linux community is to get the best out of their machines. Sorry I can't offer more on this!
I otherwords "Thanks for all the hard work you fuxers, now take your open source shicht and go play with yourself because we are not going to help!"
ATi = buttheaded pricks
I only listed 4 because I did not want to be listing them all day. it's still a young market but it has a steady increase as more and more games are released for Linux. Mac has a few more released titles, but there are a lot of projects that make Linux more of a gaming platform then Mac. I've been seeing more titles released for Linux then Mac's recently.
ATi refuses to see this and devote all thier time making thier Windows customers happy over and over and over again...Fine with me, if ATi does not want to contribute we can always stick with nVidia who makes good drivers for thier hardware
I guess so, but it's been almost a year-and-a-half now. The 1.0 was released January 2002
Good to see they fixed the pricing problem, only $49.95 for the OS and another $49.95/year for the click-n-run
But I can't find the individual pricing for the click-n=run on their site, the best I can find is the Lindows Plus ($49.95 value) which includes the C-n-R for one year
Can you say bullshit?
BULLSHIT, yup...I can say it
This guy has no idea what he's talking about claiming that ATi makes good drivers for Linux...they barely have ANY drivers for Linux. They have 2 RPMs, one for xfree4.1 and one for xfree4.2...xfree4.3 has be available for 6 months and they don't have squat for it. Unless you trust a third party driver for a card that is not even a Radeon, I would much rather see the CHIP MAKER releasing any kind of driver that works...binary or not
Not to mention these are only good for RPM based distros, if you are running something like Debian, Slackware or Gentoo you will need to futz around with Alien so you can even attempt to use the damn thing!
Not all of use care about linux though. There aren't even any of the latest games being released on it to make use of high end graphics.
Some people do care and they do not care how far your head is shoved up your...
Ever hear of Unreal Tournament 2003/2004, Doom 3 or Neverwinter Nights?
All are high graphic games that demand the use of high end graphic cards
Misleading Prices
Both Apple and Dell are guilty of using misleading
prices. For example, Apple gives the price of the
low-end G5 as "$1999", and the high-end G5 as
"$2999". In other words, they have subtracted
$1 from a $3000 computer to make it seem cheaper,
which is absolutely ridiculous. This
demonstrates that both Apple and Dell are willing
to mislead people when stating their prices.
Geez, that's so tricky of them, I fell for it!!
Fools, this is not something that Dell or Apple invented, this has been a standard marketing trick for at least 50 years if not more...and EVERYONE does it!
Eli still works for Marvel...will wonders never cease?
I'm getting very tired of people throwing around IP as a reason to sue someone...the only people making money in these hard economic times are Realtors and Lawyers!
If they are suing people for making a "likeness" of their characters, I know a few Marvel artists that should be sued for making a butchery of the characters in some of the comics!
I guess the First Edition was not Definitive enough
Amazing, considering that the NWN Linux Client is on Beta 6 and not yet official...
I do see a post on the forums stateing "Shadows of Unrentide will run fine in Linux"
I'm still waiting until the Linux client is official before I even consider NWN...major turn down for me is the lack of FMV, the movies might not be important but I'm a story driven person and missing parts of the story just to play the game doesn't fly with me, I'll wait for the "Directors Cut"
Only one full year behind schedule! BioWare is suprising us all! Next thing you know they will get the FMV working in Linux!
Sure, what could go wrong?
Just don't delete the old one until you tested the new one...
This is of course if you machine doesn't burst into flames from the HDs spinning so fast with the new optimizations
Red Hat 9 back-ported a disk scheduler which is a dog. either download this 2.4.21 vanilla kernel and compile it or recompile the default RH9 kerenl and remove the scheduler (I believe it is under General, been a while since I looked at this...the option right after the CPU info)
You forgot some...
make modules
make modules_install
Unless you are a masochistic...er, monolithic kernel builder =)
Most likely not. That would of been a whole Slashdot article in itself!
Anyway...I don't think Hell has frozen over quite yet
Far from dead...hell, the 2.2 kernel is still being maintained and patched (mostly by Alan Cox, but still...it's active)
future 801.11g products will be able to release their specs so we can make good (or at least working) Linux drivers...
Apperently you have never played America's Army...
If you thought telling the teams apart in CS is difficult! In AA the difference between the teams is a camo pattern on your team and a flat pattern on the enemy...try to tell the difference in the dark and from a distance.
Microsoft does make their own clustering software
Of course they will suggest to use that instead of Linux because...[fill in the blank]
But have any of you stopped to wonder why it is that video games are often so violent?
Too often this question is asked and every time no one likes the answer
Human Nature. Humans have a genetic trait of self destruction, since the beginning of time humans have killed other humans.
You can not blame video games on Cain killing his brother Able, in the Bible.
God did not flood the world to kill off everyone because they were playing too much Quake.
Jesus wasn't put on the cross to die slowly because he had a 100/1 kill/death ratio
Enough with the biblical references, I'm not even religious...
Alexander the Great did not conquer most of Europe because he lost his 55th level mage in Everquest
Jack the Ripper didn't kill prostitutes because he was busted with hacks too many times
ok, no one knows why he did it...but I doubt it was violent games)
IF you must try to figure out why games are getting more violent, it is most likely the Human thirst for death. If it can be made more realistic, lets do it to satisfy that genetic craving. Most serial killers never played a violent game in their life, but they were seriously mentally disturbed.
These stories where the "kid that play violent games killed someone" is FUD created by those that can not handle the fact that someone was mentally insane or had that natural urge to kill. They need to treat the problem, not the first excuse they can think of
Everyone is defensive of THEIR hobby and are secretly afraid they have been screwed up somehow.
You figured us out...we are scarred to death that because of violent games, we ourselves are more likely to kill someone over a friggin' cookie. We all will one day go on a 'killing spree' and you will see thousands of over-weight, out-of-shape, pale skined, homicidal manics running around yelling "Damn Lag!" and "You stole my kill!"
Let's see, who's all involved again?
SCO sues IBM
SCO threatens 1500 Linux 'users'
Linus says SCO is full of it and wants proof
Novell knocks SCO on the head for being ID10T's
SCO threatens Linus if they don't receive the ransom^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H licenses
Microsoft funds SCO, but claims it was 'business as usual'
I think this might make things a little clearer...
The lawers are just pissed off because what their clients worked hard on for 3 years was reverse engineered by a teenager over spring break =)
Let's see...just over two more weeks before the trial starts. I'll bet $5 that SCO changes their story at least two more times by then
The Windows partitioning/resizing tool with Mandrake 9.1 is excellent. I used it to resize the WindowsXP partition on my laptop...and then loaded Red Hat 9 on the space I made available =)
;-)
Mandrake seems to "candy coated" for my tastes and half the tools did not work for me, I have a lot more experiance with Red Hat and it fits my desktop tastes better...then there's Gentoo using Fluxbox, but that's another story
The Fallout rules were based off of GURPS and by the time Fallout was finally released, they made so many changes they could not release the game under the GURPS license.
I though the final rules in Fallout were so much better then GURPS anyway =)