On Sat, 15 Mar 2003, J Sloan wrote: > Are you're calling me a small dog, or > saying I like to bark at small dogs?
Ah..the mystery or double meanings. Just ponder awhile longer and you might see the deeper meaning still. > "I'm not holding my breath - I've > been gaming on linux for years" Too bad...you might find holding yer breathe rewarding. How about this...think of it as a...game, maybe then it will be cool enough or interesting enough to try. And no one been saying that linux "gaming" isn't possible. I game in linux all the time...glines is always a fun game, to waste time with, when flamewars on mailinglists start to become somewhat repetitive...like this one. This flamewar is all about yer assersion that "games and multimedia" are a "huge driving force" in linux. Okay actually it started with yer very silly "3d support ain't good enough" for modern hardware comments back in the NVIDIA patches thread, which mharris beat me to...man I hate it when he does that. I hate it when mharris jumps in and talks about the state of the art technical issues, before I get a chance to run my mouth off about it. I hate it more when people, like you, try to argue with him about what the lay of the land is in terms of video development. It was particular amusing though that you made such a big deal about comparing driver support for what is an essential a dead line of video hardware...to driver support for the current generation of chips. If I find a stockpile of voodoo 3 cards for you...would that be enough to shut you up for the next couple of years, until the gaming industry for linux matures? Yer ability and fanatical desire to play FPS's doesn't constitute a driving force. My ability and fanatical desire to play Dance Dance Revolution on linux, is not a driving force. You want better 3d support on modern 3d hardware so you can play those games in the gloriously eye-candy filled and utterly trite FPS genre, that will happen when the game publishers and the hardware manufacturs are going to have to sink development time into the open source aspects of linux...to mold linux so its full potential as a gaming platform. If its up to the OSS developers to get it right on their own, without development help from the hardware manufacturers and game publishers, without help from the people who will reap the most profit in the end...yer gonna see full 3d support on "modern" hardware that we have to day, on the same timescales as we saw with the voodoo cards...just in time to see the cards be retired and no longer made. -jef"goes back to playing RTCW, it is a saturday after all, time for fun"spaleta -- Phoebe-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/phoebe-list
