Re: Odp: Re: just some thoughts

2006-08-30 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-08-24 23:29:42, schrieb Matej Cepl: Paul Johnson wrote: So what's /usr/games? for games installed from .deb packages (/usr/ should be limited just to whatever was put there by dpkg). Thanks. Someone with knowledge. ;-) I have downloaded several games and compiled it static...

Re: Odp: Re: just some thoughts

2006-08-28 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-08-24 23:29:42, schrieb Matej Cepl: Paul Johnson wrote: So what's /usr/games? for games installed from .deb packages (/usr/ should be limited just to whatever was put there by dpkg). Thanks. Someone with knowledge. ;-) I have downloaded several games and compiled it static...

Re: Odp: Re: just some thoughts

2006-08-24 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-07-25 10:32:10, schrieb Zbigniew Wiech: I also has this problem. There's a lot of free games attached to childrens' magazines. Most of them are only for Windows, there is no way to play them on linux. With all respect to WINEs people, its in very ... beta stage. It failed to open

Re: Odp: Re: just some thoughts

2006-08-24 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-07-25 06:42:50, schrieb John Hasler: Zbigniew writes: There's a lot of free games attached to childrens' magazines. Most of them are only for Windows, there is no way to play them on linux. If they are gratis, why do they need to be closed-source? Because the Spy-Ware which is

Re: Odp: Re: just some thoughts

2006-08-24 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-07-25 08:03:34, schrieb Roberto C. Sanchez: That's what LSB is for. If it ony it were that simple :-) LSB *requires* RPM! Yuck! GAMES should be installed in /opt/game/ or ~/bin/game/ IF games are good coded and static compiled they are working always and on any locations.

Re: Odp: Re: just some thoughts

2006-08-24 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thursday 24 August 2006 06:01, Michelle Konzack wrote: Am 2006-07-25 08:03:34, schrieb Roberto C. Sanchez: That's what LSB is for. If it ony it were that simple :-) LSB *requires* RPM! Yuck! GAMES should be installed in /opt/game/ or ~/bin/game/ IF games are good coded and

Re: Odp: Re: just some thoughts

2006-08-24 Thread Matej Cepl
Paul Johnson wrote: IF games are good coded and static compiled they are working always and on any locations. So what's /usr/games? for games installed from .deb packages (/usr/ should be limited just to whatever was put there by dpkg). Matěj -- GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3

RE: just some thoughts

2006-07-26 Thread Brunner, Brian T.
-Original Message- From: Paul Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tuesday 25 July 2006 06:41, Juergen Fiedler wrote: On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 07:04:43PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: [...] Them: Can I run my games? Me: Let me see 'em. No. Them: I guess I'll

Re: just some thoughts

2006-07-25 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 06:08:38AM +0100, Wulfy wrote: Chuckk Hubbard wrote: It's with shame that I even admit this affects me, but if yall didn't know, the social site myspace.com has just moved all its multimedia content to Flash 9.0 due to security problems they had with the previous

Re: just some thoughts

2006-07-25 Thread Leinier C. Salfran
El mar, 25-07-2006 a las 03:06 -0400, Kevin Mark escribió: On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 06:08:38AM +0100, Wulfy wrote: Chuckk Hubbard wrote: It's with shame that I even admit this affects me, but if yall didn't know, the social site myspace.com has just moved all its multimedia content to

Odp: Re: just some thoughts

2006-07-25 Thread Zbigniew Wiech
of linux would help. What's the point for game developper to produce 70 versions of the game for all kinds of linuxes, only to reach 5% of population ? regards Zbigniew David Baron [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2006-07-24 21:49 Do debian-user@lists.debian.org DW Temat Re: just some thoughts

Re: just some thoughts

2006-07-25 Thread Chuckk Hubbard
Aw, we have minesweeper, that's all anyone really needs. On 7/24/06, Cybe R. Wizard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the Great Book it has Been Written that on Mon, 24 Jul 2006 09:57:46 -0600 Art Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] didst appear within my Magick Viewing Screen and, being somewhat pleasantly

Re: Odp: Re: just some thoughts

2006-07-25 Thread John Hasler
Zbigniew writes: There's a lot of free games attached to childrens' magazines. Most of them are only for Windows, there is no way to play them on linux. If they are gratis, why do they need to be closed-source? In my opinion strong standardisation of linux would help. What's the point for

Re: Odp: Re: just some thoughts

2006-07-25 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 06:42:50AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: Zbigniew writes: There's a lot of free games attached to childrens' magazines. Most of them are only for Windows, there is no way to play them on linux. If they are gratis, why do they need to be closed-source? That is a good

Re: just some thoughts

2006-07-25 Thread Welly Hartanto
Chuckk Hubbard wrote: Aw, we have minesweeper, that's all anyone really needs. On 7/24/06, Cybe R. Wizard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the Great Book it has Been Written that on Mon, 24 Jul 2006 09:57:46 -0600 Art Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] didst appear within my Magick Viewing Screen and, being

Re: just some thoughts

2006-07-25 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 07:04:43PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: [...] Them: Can I run my games? Me: Let me see 'em. No. Them: I guess I'll have to stick with Windows. You can't imagine how frustrating that can be. Point them in the direction of Cedega and ask them why they're

Re: just some thoughts

2006-07-25 Thread Carl Fink
On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 03:23:38AM -0400, Leinier C. Salfran wrote: El mar, 25-07-2006 a las 03:06 -0400, Kevin Mark escribió: I wanted to go to site with v8 and had to instll wine/firefox and then v8 as a plugin. It was so so on speed and response. But I agree it sucks not because Im not

Re: Odp: Re: just some thoughts

2006-07-25 Thread John Hasler
Roberto writes: LSB *requires* RPM! So what? -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: just some thoughts

2006-07-25 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tuesday 25 July 2006 06:41, Juergen Fiedler wrote: On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 07:04:43PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: [...] Them: Can I run my games? Me: Let me see 'em. No. Them: I guess I'll have to stick with Windows. You can't imagine how frustrating that can be.

Re: just some thoughts

2006-07-25 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 11:10:20AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: Get coding then. They let you contribute to their CVS. I don't see the point. There are very few (if any) games I would be interested in playing for either Windows or Linux that I can't get for my PS2. Is Katamari Damacy available on

Re: Odp: Re: just some thoughts

2006-07-25 Thread hendrik
On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 06:42:50AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: Zbigniew writes: There's a lot of free games attached to childrens' magazines. Most of them are only for Windows, there is no way to play them on linux. If they are gratis, why do they need to be closed-source? Maybe it's just

Re: just some thoughts

2006-07-24 Thread Art Edwards
I agree with the argument about people engaged in the creative arts. I just started using lilypond, which does put out some very nice looking charts. It may also be the least intuitive code I've touched in maybe five years. There is a windows tool called bandbox that works very well. What I don't

Re: just some thoughts [now OT and silly]

2006-07-24 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 09:57:46 -0600, Art Edwards wrote: [...] Even more important are games. My children run XP because the games run on XP. There are now a few games ported to linux that I'm trying to check out, but there have

Re: just some thoughts

2006-07-24 Thread David Baron
Port games to linux and the adoption rate would skyrocket (IMHO). Linux has a wealth of games and my daughter uses it every day. The only thing for which I boot up windows is music production because of all the projects already on windows software. I look forward to discarding the windows even

Re: just some thoughts

2006-07-24 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
In the Great Book it has Been Written that on Mon, 24 Jul 2006 09:57:46 -0600 Art Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] didst appear within my Magick Viewing Screen and, being somewhat pleasantly supplicatory, did polemicize thusly: Port games to linux and the adoption rate would skyrocket (IMHO). In my

Re: just some thoughts

2006-07-24 Thread Paul Johnson
On Monday 24 July 2006 13:46, Cybe R. Wizard wrote: In the Great Book it has Been Written that on Mon, 24 Jul 2006 09:57:46 -0600 Art Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] didst appear within my Magick Viewing Screen and, being somewhat pleasantly supplicatory, did polemicize thusly: Port games to

Re: just some thoughts

2006-07-24 Thread Chuckk Hubbard
It's with shame that I even admit this affects me, but if yall didn't know, the social site myspace.com has just moved all its multimedia content to Flash 9.0 due to security problems they had with the previous version, and Adobe has yet to come up with Flash Player 9.0 for Linux. They have a

Re: just some thoughts

2006-07-24 Thread Wulfy
Chuckk Hubbard wrote: It's with shame that I even admit this affects me, but if yall didn't know, the social site myspace.com has just moved all its multimedia content to Flash 9.0 due to security problems they had with the previous version, and Adobe has yet to come up with Flash Player 9.0 for

just some thoughts

2006-07-21 Thread crank u. say
You could promote Linux, and even sell Linux I believe with this approach: 1. You need a reliable group of Linux experts who have internet access 2. They will need to have technical, physical and legal ability and authority to take control of a computer that a potential client authorizes them to

Re: just some thoughts

2006-07-21 Thread Paul Johnson
On Friday 21 July 2006 07:03, crank u. say wrote: You could promote Linux, and even sell Linux I believe with this approach: I believe this has already been answered extensively by the Linux Advocacy HOWTO.¹ 1. You need a reliable group of Linux experts who have internet access [EMAIL

Re: just some thoughts

2006-07-21 Thread Kevin Mark
Hi $USER with an idea about a linux distro, On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 03:03:48PM +0100, crank u. say wrote: You could promote Linux, and even sell Linux I believe with this approach: 1. You need a reliable group of Linux experts who have internet access 2. They will need to have technical,

Re: just some thoughts

2006-07-21 Thread Chuckk Hubbard
On 7/21/06, Kevin Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It costs a lot (in terms of money and developement) to take any current linux software and make it 'newbie fiendly' and close to the supposed ease of 'ms products'. You are free to work on this and ask for help but so far the only folks doing it

Just some thoughts, and I could be wrong

1998-03-21 Thread Ian Perry
I have watched with interest the comments passed back and forth, after the resignation of one of our members. I am by no means a competant C Programmer, or a Linux Guru, but do feel quite comfortable here in the Debian Community. As a user I appreciate deeply the work and dedication which has,