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post #1 of 8
2/24/03 at 11:40am
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Hi, the only experience I have with linux is running my Iopener using Jailbait for the Sandisk. I am considering loading linux onto my laptop, but the only thing keeping me from doing it is that I know my games run in Windows. So does anyone know if Morrowind tribunal, BF1942, AOM, Tribes2, CounterStrike, will run in linux? and which version of linux is best for the sager 8887-x

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post #2 of 8
2/24/03 at 4:38pm

Re: Linux question

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Originally posted by ayefly
Hi, the only experience I have with linux is running my Iopener using Jailbait for the Sandisk. I am considering loading linux onto my laptop, but the only thing keeping me from doing it is that I know my games run in Windows. So does anyone know if Morrowind tribunal, BF1942, AOM, Tribes2, CounterStrike, will run in linux? and which version of linux is best for the sager 8887-x

Thanks,
As far as I know you can run their servers on linux. For the actual games, check:

http://www.lokigames.com/products/tribes2/

I don't think any of the others can run natively in linux.

Cheers.
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post #3 of 8
2/24/03 at 5:48pm

Re: Re: Linux question

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Originally posted by Yale2006
As far as I know you can run their servers on linux. For the actual games, check:

http://www.lokigames.com/products/tribes2/

I don't think any of the others can run natively in linux.

Cheers.
Granted Loki made some great games, but Transgaming is doing some wonderful stuff with winex. granted its a consession that games are still made with windows in mind (this will not always be the case) but almost all first person shooters have a native linux port (unreal and quake/doom engined games) winex while not perfect has support for most of the top games out there and is working on newer ones.. (unfortunetly morrowind still is in the works) Games are slowly comming around but for true bleeding gamers, windows is still the way, welcome to the world of the dual boot it will be your friend.

Vash
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post #4 of 8
2/24/03 at 7:54pm
Mandrake seems perfect as a first distro.

Don't get into Debian, gentoo or Slackware until you are comfy in a unix shell.

I have Qa3, wolfenstein, SoFI , UT, UT2k3 running native, and HL, CS, Alice in Wonderland running in wine/winex, as well as PhotoShop 5.5 and Dreamweaver,
Problem is, if you after specific games , just dual boot windows and linux....but hey, ut2k3 has a linux installer in the retail version, soon all the games will ))

Human Knowledge should be free. Open Source is already killing everybody, revolution is on the way )
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post #5 of 8
2/24/03 at 7:56pm

btw

i read that 80 % of CS servers out there are linux..........maybe someone can confirm that.
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post #6 of 8
2/24/03 at 8:02pm

Re: btw

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Originally posted by laclasse
i read that 80 % of CS servers out there are linux..........maybe someone can confirm that.
It wouldn't suprise me, seeing as about the same percentage are running Quake3 servers on nix. The structure and stability of the OS makes it ideal for that type of thing, imagine taking a little P3 500 and loading nothing but the base operating system (all you need for linux to survive will fit on a floppy) and throwing a server on it, clean and concise.

Vash
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post #7 of 8
2/25/03 at 6:39pm

True now lets see further...

I run VMware on variety of OSes, even unsuported ones, likes QNX, AtheOS and MenuetOS.
Linux is a very docile OS to virtualize, that is what IBM is selling. Imagine 2000 linux virtual servers running (of a floppy hehe ) on a mainframe delivering gaming servers........hehehe, an old dream....
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post #8 of 8
2/25/03 at 6:42pm

oops

btw heres is FreeBSD 5.0 running of the sager with VMware 4 Beta :

http://poochie.flancrest.org/~laclasse/vmfree2.jpg

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