Enrico Tan wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Can Linux be used in Internet cafe?
That depends on what you want the Internet cafe to be able to do. If you want people to surf the web, chat, and edit documents (OpenOffice should do fine), then you're all set. If you want to do more than that, read on. > Does it has problem accessing the internet? Of course not. Do you really think that no one here is actually using GNU/Linux to connect to the Internet and send mail to this list? ;) > How about running games (online and offline) especially the more > popular ones like Ragnarok, MU, Tantra, etc. This is a more complicated question. There has been a long discussion over the past couple years on getting these games running on GNU/Linux, since they began to become popular, and after the crackdown on unlicensed Windows installations in cafes. Apparently Mr. Zak has had success doing Ragnarok on GNU/Linux using Wine a couple of years back: http://archives.free.net.ph/message/20040131.143605.48dba1e7.en.html Search the archives for more information; you'll get a lot of hits. For other games, the situation is much more complicated. Again, Wine seems to have made this possible. I personally have run Warcraft III using a version of Wine (Cedega) long ago, but because my laptop's 3D card is not fully supported by GNU/Linux (still isn't, sigh), the experience was not as good as on Windows. -- Supporting world peace through Nuclear Pacification. http://stormwyrm.blogspot.com/ _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
