Linux questions

[Yamaneko]

If you used fdisk to partition it, it is.

[Mindflare]

I installed Fedora Core 2 today. Complete Linux newbie, never worked with it before. I was suprised at how... user friendly it was. It looks great. Though, I haven't tried to "do" anything on it yet, so my world may yet crash down upon me.

[Erdrick Holmes]

Run a SNES emulator on it, and tell me what happens.

[Mindflare]

I haven't quite figured out compiling yet, so installing much of anything will be difficult, let alone installing an emulator. Heh.

[Dr Unne]

I still have to see RO run on linux, though (I tried wine, wine cvs, and wineX, no luck). On another note, isn't Cedega not free?
Ans last, forget about playing games in vmware, because vmware has <u>no</u> hardware acceleration support, nor DirectX support, and doesn't plan on doing it.

http://chwombat.net/random/screenshots/07-29-2004.png That was last summer. It's clearly not perfect. The text was either completely missing, or else it had those transparent boxes everywhere. Also backspace doesn't work in the chat box, which is INCREDIBLY annoying; you have to use home,right arrow and delete. Interestingly enough, it ran smoother in Linux than in Windows, in terms of handling the redrawing of the screen. Walking through Prontera in Windows results in choppiness, but Linux was nice and smooth.

I tried RO again this week in the latest version of Cedega and it displayed perfectly (good text, no transparency) but the backspace key still didn't work in the chat box. That alone is enough to make it pretty much unplayable unfortunately.

[Endless]

Maybe I'll give it a try then, I saw that cedega is available on gentoo from portage. I can do without backspace: shift and the back arrow. It's annoying, but not the end of the world.