I and some others have problems running any 3D games on our athlon/duron. It is probably a via chipset bug. You can see details at: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail& atid= 100387&aid=522096&group_id=387
So I would ask you to specify me your system setup. (as motherboard (with chipset), graphic card, kernel version, X version, distribution).
You can post here, or write to rizsanyi at neobee dot net
WineX has _always_ been available in source form for free (meaning you can get it even if you aren't a subscriber) if you are willing and able to pull it from their CVS servers. What has never been free is their compiled code, in which they add such goodies such as safedisc and securerom support (which of course, can't be open sourced, because WineX licensed it from the companies that created the copy protection)
You are not exatly right here. Their source code is free as only in beer. If they would like, then they could provide much of their source (if not all of it) completely free (under LGPL). But they dont want to do that... They want to keep control over what they contribute back for the sole reason of having advantage over the other wine developers. Of course thye have the right to do it as wine was under X11 license. But much of the people who develop wine used the X11 license because they thought that that is which makes it the most free (as in speech and as in beer).
The main reason that they switched was not that they were jelous about the success of Transgaming, but that they (Transgaming), was promising to contribute back, but nobody could rely on their promises.
If Transgaming would keep his source tree with the X11 licence, then the wine developers could merge from it the parts when they want/need it. And if you are still thinking, that could not use X11 because their binary modules: that's NOT TRUE. If they can allow some of their code for free download, then they could license that part under X11 (and maybe even under LGPL, altough that would require more work on their part to separate the commercial part in separate libraries).
What Transgaming is asking is that distributions don't package the free version of their source as a package, so people don't get the impression that when they try to run new game x with copy protection that it doesn't work with the WineX period, and not actually go and check transgamings site and realize that they need to buy the commercial version. I would hope more from the average linux user, but I can see their point.
If they dont want to allow to distribute wineX, then they should license it under a license which prohibits it. I dont really understand what they want with this quasi free licence. Maybe just some publicity.
Besides, people have been tolerating this behaviour from the MPlayer project for a long time, so I don't see what the big deal is. If you don't agree with their reasons, then exercise your right to choose and don't use the product:).
That was a wholly different issue. They used some code which was not licensed by a GPL compatible license. But their intetion was a free (in all sense) player. That is not the case with transgaming.
I think that you overestimate the stability of BSD. (or better said underestimate the stability of Linux).
There are linux system with big uptimes, and as you can read in many times people restart their machines only for a kernel upgrade (mainly with 2.2.* series).
The BSD kernel is developed at a slower pace. Maybe that's the reason of the longer uptimes...
I dont say that Linux is more stable, just that it is not an indicator.
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I and some others have problems running any 3D games on our athlon/duron. It is probably a via chipset bug. You can see details at:& atid= 100387&aid=522096&group_id=387
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail
So I would ask you to specify me your system setup. (as motherboard (with chipset), graphic card, kernel version, X version, distribution).
You can post here, or write to rizsanyi at neobee dot net
You are not exatly right here. Their source code is free as only in beer.
If they would like, then they could provide much of their source (if not all of it) completely free (under LGPL).
But they dont want to do that... They want to keep control over what they contribute back for the sole reason of having advantage over the other wine developers.
Of course thye have the right to do it as wine was under X11 license.
But much of the people who develop wine used the X11 license because they thought that that is which makes it the most free (as in speech and as in beer).
The main reason that they switched was not that they were jelous about the success of Transgaming, but that they (Transgaming), was promising to contribute back, but nobody could rely on their promises.
If Transgaming would keep his source tree with the X11 licence, then the wine developers could merge from it the parts when they want/need it.
And if you are still thinking, that could not use X11 because their binary modules: that's NOT TRUE. If they can allow some of their code for free download, then they could license that part under X11 (and maybe even under LGPL, altough that would require more work on their part to separate the commercial part in separate libraries).
If they dont want to allow to distribute wineX, then they should license it under a license which prohibits it.
I dont really understand what they want with this quasi free licence. Maybe just some publicity.
That was a wholly different issue. They used some code which was not licensed by a GPL compatible license. But their intetion was a free (in all sense) player. That is not the case with transgaming.
I think that you overestimate the stability of BSD. (or better said underestimate the stability of Linux).
There are linux system with big uptimes, and as you can read in many times people restart their machines only for a kernel upgrade (mainly with 2.2.* series).
The BSD kernel is developed at a slower pace. Maybe that's the reason of the longer uptimes...
I dont say that Linux is more stable, just that it is not an indicator.
Linux was also developed besides the fact that there was 'closed source' operating systems avaiable.
Think about it.