[dundee] direction [previously: new member]

[Nistur Effee]

Well, if people want Linux From Scratch I will burn a couple of Live CDs off then, I have a hardcopy of "the book" too that matches the CDs. I haven't, however got the newest version as, firstly, this would require printing off another 200 odd pages and secondly because I have managed to get this version working on 3 machines now, whereas I tried the newest one on my laptop and failed miserably, I don't think the kernel it recommends likes me :(

Like I said, whereas I am for the LUG meetings, I can't see presentations being all that much help, even if they try and cover problems we can't manage to fix everyone's problems by talking at them.

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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "William Cameron" <bc_dundee at hotmail.com>
> To: "Tayside Linux User Group" <dundee at mailman.lug.org.uk>
> Subject: RE: [dundee] new member
> Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 21:42:20 +0100
> 
> 
> Kernel compilation; sounds interesting here too :-)LFS sounds good 
> too, I tried it a few times, but keep getting lost and it keeps 
> dying, but with an old laptop to destroy I'm up for giving it a go 
> now.I'm not sure if I can speak for Arron here, but I'll give my 
> views, if he agrees or disagree's I'm sure he'll let everyone 
> know.The LUG may need a bit of direction, but both myself and arron 
> are quite new to linux, the whole LUG thing, and the running a 
> society at the Uni.  This is why most of the time the floor is open 
> to suggestion, and people coming forward to do stuff is what we 
> intended to happen as we don't know enough about the MANY real 
> world problems a lot of people are facing.// end rantPh at nt0mDate: 
> Sat, 31 Mar 2007 20:46:45 +0100From: cgwyllie at googlemail.comTo: 
> dundee at mailman.lug.org.ukSubject: Re: [dundee] new memberCC: Hmm, 
> talks on kernel compilations, interesting idea :)Also, LSF, again 
> interesting :PI think there's just so many possibilities that I'd 
> agree, maybe the LUG does need a little more... direction.
> I don't know, I'm just excited generally about this! (Can you tell? lol)
> On 31/03/07, James Le Cuirot <chewi at aura-online.co.uk
> > wrote:
> I think many Linux users have a Cedega subscription but not so 
> manyadmit it in a hurry. It was controversial to begin with and 
> it's evenmore controversial now. They used to have a strong case 
> with things like
> 
> Steam and World of Warcraft but now regular Wine can run both of 
> thosejust fine. Cedega is based off extremely old Wine code and 
> thedifferences between them are really starting to show. One 
> example is 2Dgraphics. Red Alert 2 runs far better on Wine than it 
> does on Cedega.
> Another example is the registry code. It's been totally 
> rewrittenbut Cedega still uses (and probably always will use) the 
> old code. Itfails to read the registry settings saved by Black & 
> White, meaning
> that you can't change the details settings and subsequently, I 
> can'tturn off the effect that's making the game run like a dog 
> every timethe sun comes into view. Admittedly, Wine doesn't run the 
> game at all
> but it does manage to read the registry when you run the 
> configurationprogram. With so many more games now working in 
> regular Wine, it won'tbe long before I, and probably many others, 
> decide to cancel our
> 
> subscriptions. The copy protection alone won't be enough to justify 
> itbecause a quick visit to megagames.com
>   almost always solves thatproblem. Cracking the games isn't an 
> ideal solution but it's better
> than wasting money on a subscription.Okay rant over. Not meaning to 
> spread FUD or anything, this is just myopinion on the matter. 
> (-;ChewiOn Sun, 01 Apr 2007 02:19:53 +0800"Nistur Effee" <
> nistur at karate.com> wrote:>> Like I said, I will do something if 
> people want, I am by no means an
> > expert at Cedega, or anything Linux related for that matter really.
> > But if people think it will help then I suppose I could. However 
> > I> think it would be beneficial for someone to have a system with 
> > a> problem to bring it in as the same problem is unlikely to be 
> > fixed in
> > exactly the same way on two computers. Obviously easiest would be 
> > a> laptop. Also, I am lead to believe WoW works quite happily off 
> > wine> on it's own, without using WineX/Cedega. I can't say I've 
> > tried, nor
> > am likely to as, being the poor student I am, can't be bothered 
> > to> pay monthly fees. Oh, and all information for installing most 
> > games> under cedega is linked to in their games database.
> 
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