M.Hockings wrote:
Re: I will admit that sometimes it takes a little reading to figure out how to install under Linux.
If you have any tips, urls etc please share them with us. I am very interested. Outside of Quake 3 and a handful of Loki Games(Heretic2) I have not yet experienced much success. Running with sisscors promise Poatal 2 but other than Reconstruction studios the boards ae preternaturally quiet about new products.Between ask the game companies for Linux versions and wine you lost me. By your staement are you implying the sorce codewhere available can be recompiled for linux? Or are you refering to actual titles that come precomplioled and can be purchased or downloaded, installed and run: Pleas elucidate on this subjest for the benefit of your benighted brethren.
Re: I work in software development and I am seeing more and more requests to have our products run multi-platform.
I pesrsonnlly am eagerly awaiting the point where I can break in and get involved with more than just running a game server but once again I am stymied by the lack of good docs and new tities to play with.. Why not start a whole new thread on rthe subject of the Linux Lan Party. Plenty of users have now configured NVidia and Xfree 86 but even though NVidia has been the linux friend, from day one this is still an area of much confusion. If you could be so kind start with wine.
Donald
Donald Correll wrote:
Hey Wayde,
Too bad I have to eat. I work in a corporate environment where Linux is a niche player. I love to experiment with Linux and Free BSD but the bread and butter is still with Sore Bill and Micro$haft. Worse yet when my son wants to play games it is XP home. Wouldn't it be lovely if we could banish the bullies from Redmond but it is going to be a long battle. So grin and just enjopy whatever OS you are forced to work with (when you have no other choice).
Donald Correll, who wishes he could get the money back he spent on MCP 70-210 and reinvest in Linux Net Admin.
I think that if you investigate you will find that most games will run under Linux, some have native Linux installs others need Wine. For one game (UT2003) I was unable to get it to install under Win98 but it installed fine in FC1 on the same machine. I will admit that sometimes it takes a little reading to figure out how to install under Linux. However, unless you keeners work at it and ask the game companies for Linux versions they will continue to pump out Windows-only stuff. If you don't ask for it you won't get it...
From the other side of the coin, I work in software development and I am seeing more and more requests to have our products run multi-platform. Also our IT dept. is starting to make Linux workstation installs available, not just the Win2K/WinXP stuff and I see some of the mid-range servers (IBM iSeries boxes) are doing their job using Redhat Linux.
Does all this mean that Windows should be "banished", I would hope not (please don't throw things!) as I would imagine that having choice in operating systems would make all of the choices stronger(i.e., more stable) and more reasonably priced. And having competition would help the different Linuxi (Linuxes ?) arrive at a good common install mechanism (PRM seems to work fine for me).
Just my CAD$0.02 for choice
Mike
