All of the above

Post #138,901 by orion 1/30/04 3:56:57 PM Reply	All of the above and whatever else I can do with it. I do not know what games I can run with Linux yet, so I'll research them later. *"Lady I only speak two languages, English and Bad English!" - Corbin Dallas "The Fifth Element"*
Post #138,953 by Simon_Jester 1/30/04 6:43:45 PM Reply	Are you sure? Games, sure, who doesn't want to play games. But Linux (with the exception of CrossoverX) doesn't play Windows games. No Dialbo 2, or Warcraft 3 or (insert game of the week). There are Linux games out there. Loki produced a couple before they went belly up and I think you can still get the demos, but Linux is still (imo) behind Windows in games. Access the internet - okay this is a freebie. Run an email server - okay, why? Note: I do not run an email SERVER. I access my email (POP3) from earthlink.net as a client. (I'm one of those crazy people who actually likes Kmail) Run a database - okay, actually this is a good reason to run Linux (imo). But which database? (Do you have a specific project in mind, or do you want to just play with a database to play with a database?) You might note that I'm trying to pull more information from you. You'd be right. :-) I want to know WHAT you want to do with Linux so that we can define what is "SUCCESS" and to see whether or not I would even be of any help. Most people (imo), don't define what they want to do, find Linux (or occassionally the task in question) difficult, and declare that it's impossible to use and give up. Shrug, it's their choice, but I think they're blaming Linux when it's not necessarily Linux's fault. Myself? I use Linux as my principle Desktop at home. I've got some games on it, but they're the older games that Loki produced way back when. (Alpha Centauri, RailRoad Tycoon, Civilization CTP, Quake III, Heroes of M&M III). I also play a lot of the free source games. Pengius, Backgammon, PySol, FreeCiv, Moria/Angsland. As my principle desktop, I use it for all my internet access. Netscape 7.1 as web browser (though I've used Opera in the past), and Kmail for email access. I've had a couple of databases up and running. Sybase, mySQL, and others. I've also had some internal web servers, both TomCat and Apache. I've also got a seperate box up and running as a Samba Server - for file and printer sharing. Mostly though, my requirements for my desktop was to allow me to do coding, in particular - Perl, C, C++, Java. I've fallen in love with the idea of multiple windows (rather than a single IDE) to code and test, but that's me. Looking through this list - you can see why I went Linux. I have some games, but my principle interest was in coding. YMMV.
Post #138,988 by orion 1/30/04 9:33:11 PM Reply	I am sure Games, sure, who doesn't want to play games. But Linux (with the exception of CrossoverX) doesn't play Windows games. No Dialbo 2, or Warcraft 3 or (insert game of the week). Those game of the week games are what my Gamehead brother wanted to play. We couldn't get WINE to work right with them, so he went back to XP. I have Civilization II: Gold right now. I think it might work under WINE. Run an email server - okay, why? Note: I do not run an email SERVER. I access my email (POP3) from earthlink.net as a client. (I'm one of those crazy people who actually likes Kmail) I own a domain name and would like to use it as email. Also it would be an account I can run SpamAssasin on. QMail sounds good enough to me to use. * Run a database - okay, actually this is a good reason to run Linux (imo). But which database? (Do you have a specific project in mind, or do you want to just play with a database to play with a database?) I want to learn a free/open sourced database, an alternative to SQL Server. I am looking as Postgre, MySQL, Firebird, and a few others. Project will come later after I learn enough about the database to program with it. *"Lady I only speak two languages, English and Bad English!" - Corbin Dallas "The Fifth Element"*
Post #139,170 by orion 1/31/04 10:52:46 PM Reply	Other games I am trying to keep what games I do play as web or Internet based. I only play them on study breaks or when I am stressed out and need to blow off some steam. Mechastrike is a web based Mech game. I should be able to play it with Mozilla on Linux. To sign up for the game click here: [link\|http://www.mechastrike.com/signup.php?refer=2059\|http://www.mechastri...up.php?refer=2059] It has the occasional pop-up which Mozilla blocks, except for one to imbum.com some sort of personals for IM users. Tradewars is another game I can play. [link\|http://www.eisonline.com/\|http://www.eisonline.com/] as it uses Telnet. In order to play better, one needs scripts or a TW Helper program. J-TWAT is based on Java and should run on Linux. [link\|http://sourceforge.net/projects/j-twat\|http://sourceforge.net/projects/j-twat] SWATH I registered but it won't run under WINE as of version 1.66 but 1.67 is being re-written to run under WINE. [link\|http://www.swath.net/\|http://www.swath.net/] ATTAC I alse use and registered, buggy but it works, no Linux version yet. [link\|http://www.tw-attac.com/\|http://www.tw-attac.com/] TWXProxy is the best one, but no Linux port and it does not run under WINE. [link\|http://www.twxproxy.com/\|http://www.twxproxy.com/] There are a ton of REXX scripts out there, so a Linux telnet terminal with REXX support can have the scripts modified to run under it. Other games I might run, The Sims, Civilization III, Monopoly 2, Sim City 3000, etc. I am not running them yet and I will have an XP workstation or laptop to run them on if needed. Hence the need for Windows still. I also have to do development in ASP, VB, Access, etc to keep my skills up to date in case I need them for a job. *"Lady I only speak two languages, English and Bad English!" - Corbin Dallas "The Fifth Element"*

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