[Herefordshire] God you people think p166 is old :)

[Julian Robbins]

Hi David

David Shorthouse wrote:

> 
> I think I have a good topic to start of the new-year... does anyone play any
> good pc games (eg steam games) counter-strike,half-life,condition zero?? I
> have been playing with my Suse 9.1 again & have worked out how to use wine.
> But don't know if it will play my games. If it will does the spec of the pc
> have to be better using Linux?????

No, the opposite. I read that Quake3 has a min spec of a Window 1.5 GHz 
PC whereas the mfr quotes only 1 GHz for Linux !! Still the graphics is 
the hardist to get absolutely perfect. Just make sure you have a nvidia 
card rather than an ATI. ATI do 3d drivers but theyre reknowned as not 
being much cope as yet. NVIDIA are much better. The Transgaming peopel 
do the same to WINE that Codeweavers to for more business like Windows 
apps, ie Transgaming release working Linux variants of windows games.
> 
> Oh just a few other things while I'm on a roll. 
> 
> I'm now swaying all my attention to internet stuff (eg
> apache2,php4,mysql,perl.) I have installed all these as a default I've
> installed a module(terminoligy may be incorrect) called webmin which allows
> you to administer the machine using a web interface. I'm sure some of you
> have used it. I am missing loads of the modules and wondered if anyone knows
> what parts are must haves... for some reason my apache server wont start
> unless I restart the machine. (I must admit I don't know the commands I
> would need to start & stop it anyway) I'm interested in sendmail.. &
> procmail which I can configure through the web interface but knowing nothing
> about either I don't know which I should use...???

Webmin is good. Although be careful, I still managed to delete my root 
password for mysql , which proved difficult to get back ! You may not 
need so many modules unless you need SSL, etc.

starting apache should be like  :-

service httpd2 start
service httpd2 status
service httpd2 stop

on redhat and other systems, otherwise you have to run it from the /etc/ 
start script, which i can never quite remember ... (/etc/init.d/ ?? ??
> 
> Oh another interesting fact just before I runaway to the other machine
> again.
> 
> Has anyone heard of a Linux based system that looks like windows... named
> Freedows it is a Brazilian project & apparently the lite version looks like
> windows 98 but the pro version(pay for) looks & acts like windowsXP?

There was a good article in Micromart (linux section every week!), about 
Windows like OS's. Like CentOS, and ReactOS. Their goal is to run 
windows apps fully without Windows. Freedows is probably similar. 
ReactOS looks promising but has some way to go , ie it doesnt even have 
networking as yet ..


Julian
> 
> 
> Happy New Year everyone :)
> 
> Dave.. 
> 
> I should be there tomorrow.. 
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