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<body><div style="text-align: left;">Kernel compilation; sounds interesting here too :-)<br><br>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.<br><br><br>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.<br>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.<br><br>// end rant<br><br><br>Ph@nt0m<br></div><br><br><blockquote style="border-left: #008080 2px solid; padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 0px;"><hr id="EC_stopSpelling">Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 20:46:45 +0100<br>From: cgwyllie@googlemail.com<br>To: dundee@mailman.lug.org.uk<br>Subject: Re: [dundee] new member<br>CC: <br><br>Hmm, talks on kernel compilations, interesting idea :)<br><br>Also, LSF, again interesting :P<br><br>I think there's just so many possibilities that I'd agree, maybe the LUG does need a little more... direction.<br>
<br>I don't know, I'm just excited generally about this! (Can you tell? lol)<br>
<br><div><span class="EC_gmail_quote">On 31/03/07, <b class="EC_gmail_sendername">James Le Cuirot</b> <<a href="mailto:chewi@aura-online.co.uk">chewi@aura-online.co.uk
</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="EC_gmail_quote" style="padding-left: 1ex;">
I think many Linux users have a Cedega subscription but not so many<br>admit it in a hurry. It was controversial to begin with and it's even<br>more controversial now. They used to have a strong case with things like
<br>
Steam and World of Warcraft but now regular Wine can run both of those<br>just fine. Cedega is based off extremely old Wine code and the<br>differences between them are really starting to show. One example is 2D<br>graphics. Red Alert 2 runs far better on Wine than it does on Cedega.
<br>Another example is the registry code. It's been totally rewritten<br>but Cedega still uses (and probably always will use) the old code. It<br>fails to read the registry settings saved by Black & White, meaning
<br>that you can't change the details settings and subsequently, I can't<br>turn off the effect that's making the game run like a dog every time<br>the sun comes into view. Admittedly, Wine doesn't run the game at all
<br>but it does manage to read the registry when you run the configuration<br>program. With so many more games now working in regular Wine, it won't<br>be long before I, and probably many others, decide to cancel our
<br>
subscriptions. The copy protection alone won't be enough to justify it<br>because a quick visit to <a href="http://megagames.com" target="_blank">megagames.com</a>
almost always solves that<br>problem. Cracking the games isn't an ideal solution but it's better
<br>than wasting money on a subscription.<br><br>Okay rant over. Not meaning to spread FUD or anything, this is just my<br>opinion on the matter. (-;<br><br>Chewi<br><br><br>On Sun, 01 Apr 2007 02:19:53 +0800<br>"Nistur Effee" <
<a href="mailto:nistur@karate.com">nistur@karate.com</a>> wrote:<br>><br>> Like I said, I will do something if people want, I am by no means an
<br>> expert at Cedega, or anything Linux related for that matter really.
<br>> But if people think it will help then I suppose I could. However I<br>> think it would be beneficial for someone to have a system with a<br>> problem to bring it in as the same problem is unlikely to be fixed in
<br>> exactly the same way on two computers. Obviously easiest would be a<br>> laptop. Also, I am lead to believe WoW works quite happily off wine<br>> on it's own, without using WineX/Cedega. I can't say I've tried, nor
<br>> am likely to as, being the poor student I am, can't be bothered to<br>> pay monthly fees. Oh, and all information for installing most games<br>> under cedega is linked to in their games database.<br><br>
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