On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 12:10:13 -0600 (CST), <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> I would expect Freeciv (which is probably already installed in the K12LTSP
> install as I think it's included in the default install of Redhat) to work
> just fine in an LTSP environment.
Yeah, just bandwidth-eating. These kinds of things all work.
> I don't know if other distributions include it by default. I'd expect
> that Mandrake would. In Debian, it's probably just an apt-get away.
Yeah, in Redhat it's just an apt-get away, too; see apt.freshrpms.net.
> I would be shocked to find that games that require very fast graphics
> (i.e., quake III, etc.) would be playable via a standard LTSP
> installation. However, if you're running the game as a local application,
> and you've got the graphics hardware in the clients to handle the games,
> then it might just work. You'd probably need to make Mesa work on the
> clients for opengl based games. Needing to hit the server disk for data
> would probably slow such a game to a crawl also.
Yep, but not for the reason you'd suppose; to get the video 'piped' to the
clients, you'll need GLX, and it's not really ready for primetime yet. And even if it
were, all this networking and using slower and less endowed machines (16M/ram)
woulnd't be very playable, I'm sure.
Nah, if you're wanting to play Quake/Ut, you really need to make a Quakestation,
not LSTP.
But I'm interested in the xpilot stuff; I've not seen it run yet. Surely it's not
as 'cool' as FlightGear, but it could still be fun.
BTW: if you want a game that *doesn't* use OpenGL, but is still premium, consider
these:
Railroad Tychoon II (Loki)
Civilization II (Loki)
SimCity 3k (Loki)
HyperSpace Deliveryboy (Someone else....should be out soon)
I'm sure there are others...
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