> Games don't run well in emulation, especially Doom III and Half-Life 2, > due to the heavy use of DirectX. You can try Wine or Cedega, but even > the fastest systems will experience quite a performance hit. You're > best off dual-booting a copy of Windows and running the games from > there. It's OK, dual-booting for playing games is a perfectly > acceptable use of Windows. :-P
DoomIII runs native on linux. Half-LifeII will be ported soon too. > As for OpenOffice.org, I use it all the time, even on my Windows > machines. Why pay $500 for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, FrontPage and > Outlook when you've got OpenOffice and Thunderbird all for free (plus > any donations you make)? They can read and write Office files with > minimal trouble. The only thing you'll miss is the Office shortcut bar, > but just copy the icons to GNOME's top panel and you're back in business. I was highly recommended the new OpenOffice. Looking forward for OOo2 :) Greets hannes -- Today is Prickle-Prickle, the 71st day of Discord in the YOLD 3171
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