6 Sep
2008
6 Sep
'08
12:57 a.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Leonard trixter at oldskool.org
Sent 9/6/2008 3:44:51 AM
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Subject: Re: OT: Linux and OpenOffice
Tony Mori wrote:
This will not turn into a pro/con sucks/doesn't suck discussion, as I am
sure that horse was beaten beyond dead long ago...
This is just a req to ask for what people are running out there, as a
suggestion for what I should try.
My wife and young children have found Ubuntu 8.04.1's desktop very easy
to pick up and use; in fact, my wife has switched to it full-time, and
only reboots into Windows when she needs to fill her iPod, then boots
back into Ubuntu.
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Ubuntu looks pretty nice, even just the 'LiveCD' session i tried...
I booted up gOS beta 3, and it looks an awfuuuuul lot like Ubuntu...I assume there's
some cross-breeding there
My WiFi worked on the Ubuntu LiveCD session, but does not under gOS LiveCD...
The old-school distros as nice as these out-of-box? Like Debian/Slackware/Suse/etc... ?
I'm starting an install of Ubuntu as we speak
Now, Jim, before I go digging, wasn't it you that mentioned some extra proggies for
running games?
Was that to use std win games under *nix?
Tony
6 Sep
6 Sep
1:43 a.m.
I installed debian onto my Sparc Ultra 5 (using the net install cd) and I
have to admit is was very nice and easy. Much easier than years back playing
with Redhat 5 on an old Pentium. Also nice how you can just search for app
names and debian will find them and install them for you from the internet.
Odd how I like easy installs for Linux and yet I still collect and play with
DOS, Windows 3.x, OS/2 etc where you have to know what you are doing to get
it to work (and somehow enjoy the process). If formats didn't change in MS
Office I might just use Office 4.2.1 on my old Macs and Win 3.x PCs still.
TZ
3:36 a.m.
tonym wrote:
Now, Jim, before I go digging, wasn't it you that
mentioned some extra proggies for running games?
Was that to use std win games under *nix?
I don't recall doing so, but DOSBox is mandatory to run DOS-era games
with an 90% success rate.
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4:51 a.m.
On Sat, Sep 06, 2008 at 05:36:35AM -0500, Jim Leonard wrote:
tonym wrote:
Heh... I'm doing that right now... I'm mostly through an X-COM campaign.
I probably have 6-8 DOS-era games at my fingertips for playing under
DOSbox, plus more are easy to find if I go out looking for them.
I suspect, though, that tonym is asking about the latest and greatest
games and how to run them under WINE or some other gaming environment
that someone mentioned in passing a week or two ago. I don't play that
many modern games, so I haven't really dug into what it takes to make
a Linux gaming platform.
-ethan
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Now, Jim, before I go digging, wasn't it you
that mentioned some extra
proggies for running games?
Was that to use std win games under *nix?
I don't recall doing so, but DOSBox is mandatory to run DOS-era games
with an 90% success rate. 
5:13 a.m.
Ethan Dicks wrote:
On Sat, Sep 06, 2008 at 05:36:35AM -0500, Jim Leonard
wrote:
"How to play modern games" *is* veering quite a lot off topic, but I
should just point out that the difference between the newest version of
Wine and the version of Wine in most distros is quite significant.
There's a nice tutorial here: http://www.winehq.org/site/download-deb
Regards,
-Tore :)
tonym wrote:
...
I suspect, though, that tonym is asking about the latest and greatest
games and how to run them under WINE or some other gaming environment
that someone mentioned in passing a week or two ago. I don't play that
many modern games, so I haven't really dug into what it takes to make
a Linux gaming platform.
Now, Jim, before I go digging, wasn't it you
that mentioned some extra
proggies for running games?
Was that to use std win games under *nix?
I don't recall doing so, but DOSBox is mandatory to run DOS-era games
with an 90% success rate.
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