On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 19:22:04 -0500, bizzorg <bizzorg@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > My favorite Operating system vendor is the one sending me commission or > royalty checks, since I'm not receiving money from any vendor, I DON'T have > a favorite. > > I have FC3 installed on my 2nd hard drive. There are a a few issues I have > with FC3 that I don't have with Win/XP. > > 1.) My Sound Blaster 7.1 is not supported in FC3. Did a search and no love. Sorry. > 2.) FC3 tolerates my Nvidia Geforce video card. I have not found drivers > yet. http://nvidia.com look up the linux drivers -- Then I got thought you should be able to get the 3D glory from that card even with the open stuff. > 3.) I'm running up2date but it's doing NOTHING! I place my pointer on the > progress window and all I get is the hourglass. Sounds like you have never, ever got this to update right? You can run up2date with the command options but your best option is probably a good old-fashioned trip to the Terminal and then su - to root and run a yum update. Yum is typically way faster. > 4.) One of my favorite games, Age of Empires is a Windows based game. I > supposed if I take the time to learn Wine I can play it on FC3. > Transgaming and wine might be able to help you. But ... Transgaming does sell linux ports. Linux Games Publishing I believe sells native linux games. I have had good luck with this site but other people have reported trouble. http://tuxgames.com At the very least it gives you an idea of the games available in linux. > I do like the fact that Spyware or viruses do not infect my system with > Linux activated. > I like that too. After being forced for over a year to use a 2000 and now XP laptop at work I wrote the following Slashdot Journal entry: http://slashdot.org/~ACK!!/journal/94071 7 Things I miss about Linux But there is good news I got my little Ultra 5 at my desk decked out with Solaris 8 and blastwave.org packages and it works pretty damn well considering how ancient it is. The menu redraw rate for the Applications menu is actually better than Linux, go figure. Weird.
