2009/5/23 Justin Dugger <[email protected]>: > I really do think some of the important stuff can be done in Ubuntu > proper. For example, Wine could be added to the default install of > Ubuntu, or it could be set up to install as needed, similar to audio > codecs.
One important part when it comes to Wine is that you often need to customize things a bit to make something work proper, tools like: * http://wddb.wine-doors.org/ * http://playonlinux.com/en/ Automate those customizations and provide pretty much one-click installations of Windows software. Would be a good idea to include and promote them in Ubuntu. One problem these tools however have is that they don't provide automatic copy-protection cracking, which is needed to make a lot of games work in Linux. Is there any way that issue can be worked around in a legal manner, like downloading the crack instead of including it or if that doesn't work, provide just an sha1/md5sum so that the user can provide the right binary and the installer just check that its the correct one or something like that? On a broader scale it would be extremely cool if these tools and their scripts could be extended to handle mods, patches and all that other stuff that can get annoying to install in native Windows. If those installations could be automated in Linux that could certainly be an area where Linux might end up more comfortable then Windows, as especially with older games it can get annoying to track all of that down manually. -- WWW: http://pingus.seul.org/~grumbel/ Blog: http://grumbel.blogspot.com/ JabberID: xmpp:[email protected] ICQ: 59461927 _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-gaming Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-gaming More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
