[Gllug] GLLUG at Olympia, October 2008

[Caroline Ford]

2008/10/23 Calvin <mail at lordcalvin.co.uk>:
>
> Games Servers:-
> I know some of the members have a load of servers just laying around. I was
> thinking we could have one running a game server - maybe World of Warcraft
> (most popular MMORPG).
>
> Gaming Machines:-
> If we did run a WoW server, we could have a desktop machine running the game
> client, so people can have a little play and see that 1) WoW works on Linux,
> and 2) they can have their own private server running at home, on Linux.
> [WoW runs on pretty low specs, so that shouldn't be a problem.]
>

I think Wow servers are illegal, aren't they? Think you are only
supposed to use Blizzards.

Wow runs under wine - there are native linux games and clients out
there. Second Life is a good one and is actually open source.

> Stuff like Maya, Inkscape and of course Gimp.
>
Maya is expensive!

> Regarding the .org village itself, another thing we were discussing was the
> posibility of having sit-downs.
> I think this would be really cool. From a non-technical side, what if we had
> someone who knows a thing or two about Gimp, showing that it's actually
> worthy of Photoshop competition, with join-in tutorials.

But it's not, and I say this as someone who does a lot of artwork.
Inkscape is great, the gimp is overrated. Flogging the gimp at a
MacExpo would be embarrassing
.
Caroline
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