A question for John Simmons

Seems like I remember reading something you wrote in here, or who knows, maybe somewhere's else, about running N2003 on Linux. Can you give any more info?

In article <160Rb.43197$[email hidden]>, [email hidden] says... > Seems like I remember reading something you wrote in here, or who knows, > maybe somewhere's else, about running N2003 on Linux. Can you give any more > info? I saw something on the net somewhere about someone being able to run NR2003 under Wine (or WineX) as long as you use the OpenGL renderer in the game. WineX: www.transgaming.com I gave up on Linux because everytime I wanted to do something new with the computer, it would take anywhere from one day to two weeks to get everything I needed to compile some obscure software component. Under Windows, it usually only requires a few minutes to do what I wanted to do to begin with. Until Linux "just works" for normal users, it ain't goin' nowhere on the desktop because most "normal" computers users are less inquisitive, and less knowledgeable than most computer geeks. I really wish it would just work because I don't like being held under Microsoft's jackboot in order to get work done at the expense of privacy and security.

Just an FYI: Lindows does pretty much what youre looking for John. I recieved a free copy because of the Calif lawsuit against MS. MS actually paid for it :) Anyway the single nicest feature of Lindows is it automatically takes care of the dependecies using Lindows propretary (debian installer) called Click n Run. Bear in mind this also takes away some of the control of the OS but it's pretty slick distro nonetheless. Not on par with XP yet but about where 98 was in its day. Worth looking at if you seriously want to dump MS OS's. Mitch "John Simmons" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > In article <160Rb.43197$[email hidden]>, > [email hidden] says... > > Seems like I remember reading something you wrote in here, or who knows, > > maybe somewhere's else, about running N2003 on Linux. Can you give anymore

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> > info? > > I saw something on the net somewhere about someone being able to run > NR2003 under Wine (or WineX) as long as you use the OpenGL renderer in > the game. > > WineX: www.transgaming.com > > I gave up on Linux because everytime I wanted to do something new with > the computer, it would take anywhere from one day to two weeks to get > everything I needed to compile some obscure software component. Under > Windows, it usually only requires a few minutes to do what I wanted to > do to begin with. > > Until Linux "just works" for normal users, it ain't goin' nowhere on the > desktop because most "normal" computers users are less inquisitive, and > less knowledgeable than most computer geeks. > > I really wish it would just work because I don't like being held under > Microsoft's jackboot in order to get work done at the expense of privacy > and security.

Macintosh ? I go run away now :) -Larry "John Simmons" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > In article <160Rb.43197$[email hidden]>, > [email hidden] says... > > Seems like I remember reading something you wrote in here, or who knows, > > maybe somewhere's else, about running N2003 on Linux. Can you give anymore

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> > info? > > I saw something on the net somewhere about someone being able to run > NR2003 under Wine (or WineX) as long as you use the OpenGL renderer in > the game. > > WineX: www.transgaming.com > > I gave up on Linux because everytime I wanted to do something new with > the computer, it would take anywhere from one day to two weeks to get > everything I needed to compile some obscure software component. Under > Windows, it usually only requires a few minutes to do what I wanted to > do to begin with. > > Until Linux "just works" for normal users, it ain't goin' nowhere on the > desktop because most "normal" computers users are less inquisitive, and > less knowledgeable than most computer geeks. > > I really wish it would just work because I don't like being held under > Microsoft's jackboot in order to get work done at the expense of privacy > and security.

"Larry" wrote > Macintosh ? HIPPIE !!

:) -Larry "jon" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:ItvRb.1846$[email hidden]...

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> > "Larry" wrote > > > Macintosh ? > > HIPPIE !! > >

On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 22:50:42 -0500, jon wrote: > Seems like I remember reading something you wrote in here, or who knows, > maybe somewhere's else, about running N2003 on Linux. Can you give any more > info? > > Hi Jon, NRank Guru Christoph Frick has written a Howto on this subject. You can find it at http://www.zefix.tv/gpl_linux/index.php Good luck, uwe -- mail replies to Uwe at schuerkamp dot de ( yahoo address is spambox) Uwe Schuerkamp //////////////////////////// http://www.schuerkamp.de/ Herford, Germany \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ (52.0N/8.5E) GPG Fingerprint: 2E 13 20 22 9A 3F 63 7F 67 6F E9 B1 A8 36 A4 61