Why are you the one setting the standard for the status of being a gamer?
I regularly attend LAN parties, and am able to play with Windows gamers easily.
Would you consider somebody who cannot afford to upgrade their hardware often to be not a gamer, because they cannot play all the latest games, even if they spend all their time playing older games?
I don't think so, I think you're applying your argument to Linux gamers only, and ignoring any number of struggling Windows gamers.
Again, I point out the rapid development of Wine.
It's only become so rapid recently, because more people are trying to get things running, and filing more bug reports than ever before.
If you want to try playing your favourite game, try to run it, if it doesn't work, file a bug report, and help to make it work.
The only users this won't work for are the ones that expect things to Just Work - and I agree, THEY are not ready for Linux yet.
"The only real reason Linux is pushed over Windows is because you are supposed to hate Microsoft."
This is not the only reason. You might want to use Linux because you:
Don't want to pay for your operating system (without breaking the law)
Want to try something different (do you think all Mac users don't use Windows because they hate Microsoft?)
Want to learn how to as many different systems as you can (why get stuck into one way of doing things?)
This article shares the idea that many people have about Linux running games and various other pieces of software.
It states that if you're a gamer, you'll NEED to dual boot.
I'm a gamer, and I use Wine to run all my Win32 games. The very latest ones aren't perfect (yet), but for the most part you can run anything. As for other software - you really can nearly run anything perfectly.
When I say not perfect YET, it needs to be stressed that Wine is progressing really really fast, with more and more things working all the time.
The case with Flickr, and I assume all other third party sites that you can use Yahoo logins with, is that you actually get redirected to a yahoo.com domain to login. Even with this code being available, they can't trick experienced users based on that.
(4) Innocent victims. You might be doing something which is perfectly legal and of no interest to the police but which you still might not want your friends and relatives and employer to see. OK, so if you're snogging someone else's wife in the park when you're supposed to be home sick from work then maybe you deserve what you get, but I'm sure that if I tried a little harder I'd come up with a more deserving example.
Not the most serious of things, but I think a fair enough example of something of this sort might be if you were trying to organise a surprise for somebody (eg. wife or girlfriend). It's perfectly legal, but you don't want certain people to see.
And in another first, fast-growing Linux took third place, bumping machines with IBM's mainframe operating system, z/OS. Linux server sales grew from $4.3 billion in 2004 to $5.3 billion in 2005, while mainframes dropped from $5.7 billion to $4.8 billion over the same period, Eastwood said.
Linux is third, so it must just be real Unix variants.
This seems to be the best release to date It would be pretty good if they hadn't ruined the command line support... You now have to jump through hoops to avoid having to load the GUI prior to loading any games.
I agree though that from the Cedega engine point of view, it's a very impressive release.
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Both instances of the letter 'b' in the article summary should be uppercase 'B'.
B = bytes, b = bits.
This only happens if your user agent is set incorrectly.
If you RTFA, you will see what user agent to set your browser to.
If only I had some mod points left.
Brilliant.
I regularly attend LAN parties, and am able to play with Windows gamers easily.
Would you consider somebody who cannot afford to upgrade their hardware often to be not a gamer, because they cannot play all the latest games, even if they spend all their time playing older games?
I don't think so, I think you're applying your argument to Linux gamers only, and ignoring any number of struggling Windows gamers.
Again, I point out the rapid development of Wine.
It's only become so rapid recently, because more people are trying to get things running, and filing more bug reports than ever before.
If you want to try playing your favourite game, try to run it, if it doesn't work, file a bug report, and help to make it work.
The only users this won't work for are the ones that expect things to Just Work - and I agree, THEY are not ready for Linux yet.
"The only real reason Linux is pushed over Windows is because you are supposed to hate Microsoft."
This is not the only reason. You might want to use Linux because you:
Don't want to pay for your operating system (without breaking the law)
Want to try something different (do you think all Mac users don't use Windows because they hate Microsoft?)
Want to learn how to as many different systems as you can (why get stuck into one way of doing things?)
This article shares the idea that many people have about Linux running games and various other pieces of software.
It states that if you're a gamer, you'll NEED to dual boot.
I'm a gamer, and I use Wine to run all my Win32 games. The very latest ones aren't perfect (yet), but for the most part you can run anything. As for other software - you really can nearly run anything perfectly.
When I say not perfect YET, it needs to be stressed that Wine is progressing really really fast, with more and more things working all the time.
This article is bad for one reason:
It doesn't mention Wine.
It was obviously not written by a Linux gamer.
I am a Linux gamer, and I use Wine to run all the games I play. The author didn't do his research at all.
Not an issue - domains actually have a dot at the end, in the format, e.g.:
blabla.tld.
http://www.google.com/
http://www.google.com./
Both work.
I believe you have my stapler.
The case with Flickr, and I assume all other third party sites that you can use Yahoo logins with, is that you actually get redirected to a yahoo.com domain to login. Even with this code being available, they can't trick experienced users based on that.
Just what I thought. And I thought it'd be open source.
Oh well, back to Gnash.
I saw this too. Is this the actual court document? Surely such an error renders this document invalid.
Didn't you know VLC supports everything?
It is worth noting that this game runs fantastically in Wine, I do so myself.
(4) Innocent victims. You might be doing something which is perfectly legal and of no interest to the police but which you still might not want your friends and relatives and employer to see. OK, so if you're snogging someone else's wife in the park when you're supposed to be home sick from work then maybe you deserve what you get, but I'm sure that if I tried a little harder I'd come up with a more deserving example.
Not the most serious of things, but I think a fair enough example of something of this sort might be if you were trying to organise a surprise for somebody (eg. wife or girlfriend). It's perfectly legal, but you don't want certain people to see.
Attempts to load it just max out my swap and ram :(
Perhaps I'll put in another disk to mount some more swap space ...
I'll be downloading the full thing just for the sake of seeing how fast I can rotate it with GLiv.
And in another first, fast-growing Linux took third place, bumping machines with IBM's mainframe operating system, z/OS. Linux server sales grew from $4.3 billion in 2004 to $5.3 billion in 2005, while mainframes dropped from $5.7 billion to $4.8 billion over the same period, Eastwood said.
Linux is third, so it must just be real Unix variants.
xmms is nothing like iTunes.
When did the UK switch from using kilometers to miles??
Speed and distance has for the most part been measured in miles in the UK for a long long time, kilometres haven't moved into that territory yet.
This seems to be the best release to date
It would be pretty good if they hadn't ruined the command line support... You now have to jump through hoops to avoid having to load the GUI prior to loading any games.
I agree though that from the Cedega engine point of view, it's a very impressive release.
40% are under 15, AND under 20. 60% are just under 20.
I've got a 10 year old walkman, and an 8 year old Playstation, and both are still working fine.
An invite for me would be just great:
l_bratch@yahoo.co.uk
It's on 46 minutes for me, I'm guessing it doesn't take into account time zone differences.