WineX

Yeah, but when Diablo2 takes a sh*t on you, you don't have to reboot with Linux.

You sure as hell end up, one way or another, under msdos. You probably won't have to under Nt, but over time with several other things, it will bsod the system. I've pulled something like 80 or 90 hours under Nt, before it bsod'd on me; that's record. Average, I'd say I can tell it slowing down and thrashing a little at 50 hours. But now, I'm hard on a machine; especially on the weekends. Games are hard on windoze, with some of the really poorly coded ones getting top billing.

I still think a dual boot is the answer. I run games off XP, and use Linux for everything else that I possibly can. Sure, it'd be nice to not have to reboot, but on this old of a machine, it's one headache I'll let slide. That $5 a month is for the people who absolutely do not want to have to reboot, which in that case, I'd pay $5 too. Linux is not windows; thank God it will never be windows.

C@lling it like I c it...

"But you really would be willing to run (some) games at half speed AND pay $5 a month for the privilege???"

Yeah, but you're missing the point here.

Lemme put this a lil different way...

Let's say your an EE geek, working for Northrop/Grumman on the AGR-81, or what ever the hell radar package they are up to now. Let's say you have a secure landline over to Berkley and MIT for some of the lab data work, and you're running a secure ftp server.

You obviously don't want the system to crash in the middle of a download. You really don't want the system to crash period, but during a download is the worst time. You also don't want 50 backdoor pass/logins in your OS, so if someone happens to piggyback on the landline, you don't get security breaches.

So, you either write your own OS, or you start with an OS that you have access to the source code, and rework/compile it yourself to meet your specific needz. Now it's fast, stable, and very configurable, and has no security issues because you require your people to be that friggin security conscious.

Let's say those goddamn Phd.'s aren't working their graduate techs. enough hours, so you wind up sitting on your can for several hours each day just waiting for the data to come in so you can analyze it. You're reading through the normal propaganda tabloid that washes through every DoD company, and you see the Army boys are playing gamez on the Unreal Warfare engine. Since you're running a Beowulf cluster, you have some extra processing power that's just sitting there when you're not using it, so you offer to run a server for the Army. Your immediate supervisor goes competely nutz on you, 'cause he and his kid R0xx0r sum punk-@$$ llamas every night on Army Ops, which makes his wife happy 'cause she doesn't have to deal with that damn 13-year-old, and also causes her headache to go away and your supervior to get laid every night, coupled with the fact this might land your company the next Army helicopter contract.

So you setup an Army Ops server. Now, the Army boys aren't real efficient, and they put some null pointers in the latest patch, and the game server takes a gigantic sh!t, right in the middle of your Beowulf cluster while downloading from those grad. kids.

The system keeps right on trucking. You complete the download, have time to code in a server module that doesn't completely suck, score points with your supervisor which 'cause an increase in your paygrade, and your company lands the Everglade helicopter contract just because everyone in the Army brass knows your name and division.



Bottom line: If you absolutely cannot afford to reboot, WineX can come in handy.

P@ll4dium f0r L1f3!

"Even M$ haven't been greedy enough yet to rent Windows "

Dude!!!!

They totally just got done *TRYING* it (on msoffice, anyways).

Every corporation they pulled it on told them to take a flying suck, so they redid the EULA without the rental fees.

It was going to be a fairly significant fee too; like $100 per computer per year.

Besides, who says you *can't* make money on Linux? Isn't it supposed to be anti-American?



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