Linux 'n games

[Ron Henderson]

I am new to Linux gaming, but I after messing around with winex,
warcraft3, and the new UT04 demo, I have decided Linux is not the best
gaming platform out there. It runs my counterstrike server amazingly
well, but I will use Linux for what it does best, it makes a great
desktop environment to do work. I can run my office applications via
wineX if I need to, but mainly it is a server platform. I will run my
DNS, Mysql, apache web farms, and mail services on Linux based servers.
Thus replacing all externally visible windows servers. 

Ron


-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas [mailto:j.a.d.e at gmx.net] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 2:25 PM
To: fedora-list at redhat.com
Subject: Re: Linux 'n games

hi, i really used to be a gamer, and to be honest, i wasted a lot of 
time getting games for linux and get games to work with winex. My 
personal experience is, that it takes a lot more time to get a game work

with linux. There is just a small number of native linux games and an 
even smaller number of good native linux games that can compare to 
modern games that were written for platforms like MS. In my opinion, 
WineX just works for a short number of quite old games. All in all the 
number working games to choose from is incredibly low, compared to other

platforms. And the number of games with good sound and graphic is even a

whole lot lower. I tend to say you can count them on one hand.

My personal conclusion: Playing with the linux operating system can be a

lot of fun, but having fun playing games just to play the game (not to 
worry about where to get it from and how to get it working) is very 
limited.


Thomas



Rob schrieb:

>You could try this version of wine that is supposed to be geared more
to
>gaming:
>
>http://www.transgaming.com/
>
>Rob
>
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Dirk Wendland" <dirk.wendland at nexgo.de>
>To: <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 1:31 PM
>Subject: Re: Linux 'n games
>
>
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>>Am Mi, den 18.02.2004 schrieb dballester at kernpharma.com um 20:19:
>>    
>>
>>>>PS: There are more and more games coming out for Linux but I want
only
>>>>my old Need for Speed III and V running so if there is a possibility
>>>>under Linux, I am happy to try it ;)
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>Have you been tried wine package?
>>>
>>>FYI
>>>
>>>http://www.winehq.com/
>>>
>>>HTH
>>>
>>>David Ballester Montolio
>>>Responsable de Sistemas y Comunicaciones
>>>Kern Pharma, S.L.
>>>www.kernpharma.com
>>>
>>>GNU!
>>>
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>Hello
>>
>>I had wine tryed too and it works not good for MS Office ( when you
want
>>it ) really fine but for games not really good ...
>>
>>-- 
>>Dirk Wendland
>>homepage:www.develop.if2.de
>>mail:dirk.wendland at nexgo.de
>>working on:Develop a development tool for html|php|c++|java|OpenGL
>>
>>
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