On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 13:14 -0700, MC wrote: > On games, I'm not sure everyone knows this, so I'll point it out. > Games are a "killer app" for PCs, and they have been for years. (They > make people buy computers.) There is a lot of money in this stuff, > but it takes a lot of money to get right. > > Microsoft hasn't been steering the PC gaming ship as well as it could > be, so there is room for improvement there. "Games for Windows" is a > new move of theirs to bring more standardization into PC gaming. > Standardization is gooood. > > Game consoles are just extra computers for the home, but they are very > successful because of the standardization they bring. In theory they > make it easier to develop games and harder to pirate games. The > standardization results in a better experience for the gamer and the > game developer and the hardware developer. The gamer gets better > games, the game developer saves time and money, and the hardware > developer makes more money. In theory, anyway! The downside is that > the gamer has just paid more money. > > That brings us back to Solaris and its standardization. > Standardization is gooood!
True, but with games on consoles it makes the need to have games on Solaris a non-issue. The focus should be on getting those applications which Linux lack and end users want. If worse case scenario there is no native version, Wine will run it - too bad 0.9.42 fails to compile on Solaris :-( I wish the wine developers would realise the world doesn't revolve around Linux :-( Matthew _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
