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sludge said:Can I also ask some q's?
1.What games can you play on linux?
2.Which is the best one to use?
3.OpenOffice runs on linux too, right?
4.How's the driver support nowdays?
Thanks alot!
Hi
I've been fiddling on and off with various flavours over the past few years. Mandrake 10.1 was pretty slick. Now Ubuntu has my interest.
1. Many popular games run fine under WinE (Windows Emulator)
2. Depends entirely on your needs
3. Yep, it kinda began amongst the open-source community before being ported to Win
4. Pretty decent. I installed Ubuntu 5 on my NF4-SLi/6800GT and was impressed with everything
Again, as the other guys have said, most distro's will run the games if you install the emulator. And some vendors have even ported their stuff to linux.
Doom3, Unreal Tournament, Quake all have linux ports, hence running "natively". ID basically are aimign to release all their games cross platform. Some great little games are born out of the Linux environment as well. For a great time killer at work, try Foobillard. It's pretty sweet, and has a Windows port as well.
With regards to OpenOffice, it will most definitely run on linux, as that is it's primary development platform. It was originally StarOffice from Sun, and they then released an open source version for public working. It was released in order for them to see what user demand required in an office suite. They would then take the popular ideas and add it to their commercial Star Office suite. However the rate at which it expanded in the open source world was too rapid for Sun to try and keep up with it, so they released it and it has taken off. They keep patent on certain bits of code, and have a division which actively maintains the code. The beauty of OpenOffice as an office suite is that it will run on almost any platform you would want an office suite to run on.
Drivers in linux have always been a contentious issue. If you stick to buying mainstream hardware you'll be fine. Start buying obscure components and you may have a problem. Just a warning, wireless drivers can be rough. And try stick to nVidia cards for linux. Soft modems can be tough as well.
Doom3, Unreal Tournament, Quake all have linux ports, hence running "natively". ID basically are aimign to release all their games cross platform. Some great little games are born out of the Linux environment as well. For a great time killer at work, try Foobillard. It's pretty sweet, and has a Windows port as well.
With regards to OpenOffice, it will most definitely run on linux, as that is it's primary development platform. It was originally StarOffice from Sun, and they then released an open source version for public working. It was released in order for them to see what user demand required in an office suite. They would then take the popular ideas and add it to their commercial Star Office suite. However the rate at which it expanded in the open source world was too rapid for Sun to try and keep up with it, so they released it and it has taken off. They keep patent on certain bits of code, and have a division which actively maintains the code. The beauty of OpenOffice as an office suite is that it will run on almost any platform you would want an office suite to run on.
Drivers in linux have always been a contentious issue. If you stick to buying mainstream hardware you'll be fine. Start buying obscure components and you may have a problem. Just a warning, wireless drivers can be rough. And try stick to nVidia cards for linux. Soft modems can be tough as well.
I've tried Suse , Red hat , Mandrake ,Fedora and Ubuntu Live but i love Kubuntu's GUI the most ,help's me in the learning curve of linux and unix. Still have alot 2 learn but i'm going along. In a box u know not the GUI.
Oh and FreeBSD as well but thats a hole other story right there.(Setting u a GUI a little tricky well for me at least at this stage)
Oh and FreeBSD as well but thats a hole other story right there.(Setting u a GUI a little tricky well for me at least at this stage)
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How does one install the nVidia graphics driver?
There is an application named Cadega, that will let you install and play Windows games on Linux. I don't have a direct link to it, but Im sure that if you have any mad Google skills, that you will be able to find a download for the flavour of linux that any of you are running.
PS: Ubuntu Rox!
PS: Ubuntu Rox!
To install nVidia driver is quite easy. As in all linux applications, read the README.
Basically, you need to be in single user run time. or init 3. I'm guessing you're logged in graphically. open a command prompt and su to root. Once root, type init 3. This will log you out the graphical mode, and load single user mode. (This might not always work. PM for another way to get there) Once in init3, browse to the directory that holds the driver you have downloaded. Then type in ./nvidia-driver-name-goes-here.sh. This will run the .sh script that contains the drivers. It will then ask you a few questions, and then it loads. There are some settings to change in order to use TV out and stuff, but this can be obtained from the readme. There is also quite a nice utility that nVidia released which allows for GUI adjustments to basic nVidia settings.
Basically, you need to be in single user run time. or init 3. I'm guessing you're logged in graphically. open a command prompt and su to root. Once root, type init 3. This will log you out the graphical mode, and load single user mode. (This might not always work. PM for another way to get there) Once in init3, browse to the directory that holds the driver you have downloaded. Then type in ./nvidia-driver-name-goes-here.sh. This will run the .sh script that contains the drivers. It will then ask you a few questions, and then it loads. There are some settings to change in order to use TV out and stuff, but this can be obtained from the readme. There is also quite a nice utility that nVidia released which allows for GUI adjustments to basic nVidia settings.
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Hi enjoy using suse 10 and canot explain how good it feels **** Microsoft ! it feels good to know linux is the best!
sludge said:Can I also ask some q's?
2.Which is the best one to use?
No really best in linux - it depends what you want out of it. I can recommend Kubuntu and Debian
4.How's the driver support nowdays?
I don't have problems and for wireless I use ndiswrapper which can use windows 'drivers', so that works.
Thanks alot!
The other questions were answered by the guys above.
To get MONO running, apt-get mono......oh wait, you're using RPMs...