[H-GEN] Re: Re: X locks up desktop, even with live cds

[David Seikel]

On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 14:05:36 +1000 Anthony Irwin
<anthony at server101.com> wrote:

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> Troy Piggins wrote:
> > 
> > I tried cedega, well actually before it was called cedega -
> > transgaming?
> 
> Transgaming is the company that makes cedega. The latest cedega I 
> tried was one from December and it had a complete gui for installing 
> apps and a menu with a list of all your installed games you pretty 
> much just select which one you want to play and your off.
> 
> >> For a three month subscription its like $15us and you can don't
> >> have to keep a subscription going to keep using it only to get
> >> updates. I get the latest version every so often but don't really
> >> play games.
> > 
> > Yeah.  But if I play games in WinXP I don't have to pay anything
> > :)
> > 
> 
> $15 every so often to get newer versions isn't that much seeing the 
> gaming world trends is to play online games with monthly fees. I
> guess it depends on what you want, I don't have any windows boxes so
> cedega is a good choice for me if I want to play around every now and
> then with some games.
> 
> But then again there a quite a few good games for linux but they
> won't match up to the latest and greatest commercial games graphics
> wise but they are still a lot of fun and seeing I don't have a
> graphics card to handle the latest games its nice to have the older
> style games that linux provides.

I am professionally required to suggest that people buy a Playstation 3
with Yellow Dog Linux pre installed from Terra Soft Solutions in about
a month to have the best of both worlds.

On the other hand, I don't think you could get anything other than USA
PS3's out of them.


Ignore me, I sold my soul to a smallish open sourced devil.  B-)
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