Source code for their distribution is here. Looks like some repackaged RedHat 6. HoHum. How exciting. Real innovation here. What other fun stuff can I pull from their site today....
I just surfed over to LinuxOne's website, and it seems that they are chaning their ways. They're holding a flaming contest. Yes, every week the winning flame recives an "I flamed LinuxOne! T-shirt. <br> Maybe it's their way of saying "Laugh now, but we'll have the last laugh."
If they keep releasing games there's gotta be some money there. And there is a demand out there. TuxGames has mutiple petitions running for ports of games.
I encourage anyone reading this post to go sign a few petitions for your favorite games.
The only reason I use windows it to play games. Flame all you want, but StarOffice fills my needs office application wise.
Currently, one of the major drawbacks for linux gamewise is X. It's just not designed to handle 3D games. (Xfree 4 should help) GLX helps, and does a good job running Q3A.
But these limitations would be fine for 2D games. (RTS, simulations, etc...) And the porting should, in theory, be eaiser AND would be abble to run on a wider range of systems because of the lower hardware requirments.
I'd buy anything and everything Blizzard ported (or had ported) to linux without a second thought.
But, if you asked me to perdict which current game would sell espically well for the linux platform, I'd tell you RollerCoaster Tycoon. Why?
Price. $20 - $30
System Requirments: The windows version needs a p90 with 16 mb of ram as a minimum. (Recomends a p200 w/ 32 mb of ram)
It's been on PC Gamers top ten list since it was released
I've lost more hours of productivity to this game then any other I bought recently.
Well, you get the idea. If companies are going to bring their games to linux, the not as flashy as the 3D shooter but still fun 2D games would be the ideal place to start because you can sell the product to a larger section of the Linux community. As linux evolves, so will the systems that run it. Better support for 3D and better SDKs.
And who wouldn't want to play StarCraft, Baldur's Gate, Total Aniliation, RollerCoaster Tycoon, SimCity under Linux? In my opinion, these would be excelent games to port.
I've never looked inside an iMac, but I'd guess that the the components that aren't related to the monitor are at least partially shielded. I know I woulnd't want my sound card floating around in my monitor unshielded. Recording mp3s to MD gives me enough noise as it is.
As far as running a mission critica server goes, the stable debian distribution is great. Granted it's dated, may lack some features, any you may have other issuses. But if you want to find a distribution that is going to be stable right away after installation, debian is great.
Potato is called unstalbe for a reason., but in my experiences with potato most of the broken packages have been overwrite errors. As in "Package XYZ is trying to overwrite file ABC which is also in package ZYX." This is simple enough to fix. dpkg --force-overwrite -i/var/cache/apt/package.deb
Yeah it can be a pain, but that's why it's unstable. On the other hand, I have a potato success story.
Linux destiny 2.2.12 #5 Sat Sep 4 20:11:28 CDT 1999 i486 unknown 8:49pm up 64 days, 1:43, 17 users, load average: 0.20, 0.12, 0.04
This "server" serves up e-mail for about 40 people as well as doing light (in comparsion to slashdot) web trafic. It's happily running potato.
Something debian should consider is not abandoning stable while working on the next distribution. From memory, gnome and X11 where the main packages that got any attention in slink.
Personally, I'll be staying with debian (for now) but am planning staying with stable (once potato is stable anyway...) unless something I really, really must run just won't run or compile under potato.
And for those of you running slink, you may want to look into this, and the debian might want to consider maiking a sudo-distribution like this offical.
Acconding to apt on #debian: hybrid is, like, a system based on slink with selected packages recompiled from potato (it does not officially exist; it's a phenomena). You must update apt by upgrading to slink-R3 ('apt-get update; apt-get upgrade') then ask me about 'sources'. Visit [ this site ] for_some_ recompiled packages, courtesy of xk. or the memory hog of an ircd efnet uses.
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Source code for their distribution is here. Looks like some repackaged RedHat 6. HoHum. How exciting. Real innovation here.
What other fun stuff can I pull from their site today....
I just surfed over to LinuxOne's website, and it seems that they are chaning their ways. They're holding a flaming contest. Yes, every week the winning flame recives an "I flamed LinuxOne! T-shirt.
<br>
Maybe it's their way of saying "Laugh now, but we'll have the last laugh."
If they keep releasing games there's gotta be some money there. And there is a demand out there. TuxGames has mutiple petitions running for ports of games.
I encourage anyone reading this post to go sign a few petitions for your favorite games.
Currently, one of the major drawbacks for linux gamewise is X. It's just not designed to handle 3D games. (Xfree 4 should help) GLX helps, and does a good job running Q3A.
But these limitations would be fine for 2D games. (RTS, simulations, etc...) And the porting should, in theory, be eaiser AND would be abble to run on a wider range of systems because of the lower hardware requirments.
I'd buy anything and everything Blizzard ported (or had ported) to linux without a second thought.
But, if you asked me to perdict which current game would sell espically well for the linux platform, I'd tell you RollerCoaster Tycoon. Why?
Price. $20 - $30
System Requirments: The windows version needs a p90 with 16 mb of ram as a minimum. (Recomends a p200 w/ 32 mb of ram)
It's been on PC Gamers top ten list since it was released
I've lost more hours of productivity to this game then any other I bought recently.
Well, you get the idea. If companies are going to bring their games to linux, the not as flashy as the 3D shooter but still fun 2D games would be the ideal place to start because you can sell the product to a larger section of the Linux community. As linux evolves, so will the systems that run it. Better support for 3D and better SDKs.
And who wouldn't want to play StarCraft, Baldur's Gate, Total Aniliation, RollerCoaster Tycoon, SimCity under Linux? In my opinion, these would be excelent games to port.
I've never looked inside an iMac, but I'd guess that the the components that aren't related to the monitor are at least partially shielded. I know I woulnd't want my sound card floating around in my monitor unshielded. Recording mp3s to MD gives me enough noise as it is.
As far as running a mission critica server goes, the stable debian distribution is great. Granted it's dated, may lack some features, any you may have other issuses. But if you want to find a distribution that is going to be stable right away after installation, debian is great.
/var/cache/apt/package.deb
Potato is called unstalbe for a reason., but in my experiences with potato most of the broken packages have been overwrite errors. As in "Package XYZ is trying to overwrite file ABC which is also in package ZYX." This is simple enough to fix. dpkg --force-overwrite -i
Yeah it can be a pain, but that's why it's unstable. On the other hand, I have a potato success story.
Linux destiny 2.2.12 #5 Sat Sep 4 20:11:28 CDT 1999 i486 unknown
8:49pm up 64 days, 1:43, 17 users, load average: 0.20, 0.12, 0.04
This "server" serves up e-mail for about 40 people as well as doing light (in comparsion to slashdot) web trafic. It's happily running potato.
Something debian should consider is not abandoning stable while working on the next distribution. From memory, gnome and X11 where the main packages that got any attention in slink.
Personally, I'll be staying with debian (for now) but am planning staying with stable (once potato is stable anyway...) unless something I really, really must run just won't run or compile under potato.
And for those of you running slink, you may want to look into this, and the debian might want to consider maiking a sudo-distribution like this offical.
Acconding to apt on #debian:
hybrid is, like, a system based on slink with selected packages recompiled from potato (it does not officially exist; it's a phenomena). You must update apt by upgrading to slink-R3 ('apt-get update; apt-get upgrade') then ask me about 'sources'. Visit [ this site ] for_some_ recompiled packages, courtesy of xk. or the memory hog of an ircd efnet uses.