Re: Best Game Distro?

2009-09-10 Thread AZ RUNE
Wine might be free, but after I installed Crossover World of Warcraft plays like a champ with Ubuntu 9.04. So it is still all Linux without dual boot, and I also run IE 8 and MS Office 2003 Pro. Brian On Sep 9, 2009 6:36 PM, Jim March 1.jim.ma...@gmail.com wrote: It's VERY easy to give Ubuntu

Re: Best Game Distro?

2009-09-10 Thread Stephen
what graphics card do you have? On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 7:35 AM, AZ RUNE arizona.r...@gmail.com wrote: Wine might be free, but after I installed Crossover World of Warcraft plays like a champ with Ubuntu 9.04. So it is still all Linux without dual boot, and I also run IE 8 and MS Office 2003

Re: Best Game Distro?

2009-09-10 Thread AZ RUNE
Dell XPS m1730 dual nvidia 8700 in SLI On Sep 10, 2009 9:47 AM, Stephen cryptwo...@gmail.com wrote: what graphics card do you have? On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 7:35 AM, AZ RUNE arizona.r...@gmail.com wrote: Wine might be free, but ... ---

Re: Best Game Distro?

2009-09-10 Thread Stephen
ahh... i cannot get it to work with my 2900HD something weird happens. On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 10:02 AM, AZ RUNE arizona.r...@gmail.com wrote: Dell XPS m1730 dual nvidia 8700 in SLI On Sep 10, 2009 9:47 AM, Stephen cryptwo...@gmail.com wrote: what graphics card do you have? On Thu, Sep 10,

Best Game Distro?

2009-09-09 Thread mike Enriquez
I have some people looking for a Distro with some good games on it. Can anyone reccomend which linux will fit the bill. I am not a gamer so any information you send me will be all new stuff for me. Thanks Mike Enriquez --- PLUG-discuss mailing list

Re: Best Game Distro?

2009-09-09 Thread Stephen
there is a fedora variant for games specifcally with a ton poacked in of all sorts.. i think it is currently FC 11 On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 3:20 PM, mike Enriquez myli...@cox.net wrote: I have some people looking for a Distro with some good games on it. Can anyone reccomend which linux will fit

Re: Best Game Distro?

2009-09-09 Thread Jim March
I believe there's also a gaming fork of Sabayon. But really, the best gaming SUPPORT is in Ubuntu overall. And it's easy to do a LiveCD re-master for a DVD install with a pile of pre-loaded games. Actually Linux Mint (a minor fork off of Ubuntu) might be a better start as it has the proprietary

Re: Best Game Distro?

2009-09-09 Thread Dazed_75
Before you can really get a handle on that you need SOME idea of what types of games they want. If they are looking for good but simple games almost any distro that includes some would be fine. If they are looking to play things like Call of Duty, Xion, EQ2, LoTR, etc they just won't be happy.

Re: Best Game Distro?

2009-09-09 Thread Stephen
Like you I have a windows gaming system as well with my dual-boot, but the media machine i have is pure Linux On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Dazed_75 lthiels...@gmail.com wrote: Before you can really get a handle on that you need SOME idea of what types of games they want.  If they are looking

Re: Best Game Distro?

2009-09-09 Thread James Mcphee
The big killer for wine games with me is pulseaudio. Support for pulse under wine is not good and that causes problems. Which means no ubuntu or fedora. On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Stephen cryptwo...@gmail.com wrote: Like you I have a windows gaming system as well with my dual-boot, but

Re: Best Game Distro?

2009-09-09 Thread Jim March
It's VERY easy to give Ubuntu a Pulsectomy. You can even graft in OSS4 if you want...not really necessary though, Alsa works fine on it's own. Right now I'm living with the Pulse weirdness in Karmic just to see if they manage to wrangle it into something useful. So far...it's like watching a