ive decided to put my money where my mouth is and finally make the big switch
im downloading the 8.04 ubuntu alternate cd iso via torrent now, and will be installing asap, my main goal being to make this my main daily use machine hopefully forever. As in 'Sayang ang XP license ko' forever - forever. I know the act of choosing an OS needs to go through committee but frankly, I think OS wars are largely useless nowadays and besides, our goal is to make a suitable (if not superior) desktop alternative for icafes, so the choice of apps seem a more pressing issue as opposed to platform. At any rate, if a relevant argument exists wherein I should choose another Linux flavor, I'm all ears just the same. So this makes me a beta - tester na rin. I'll be blogging about this on a regular basis (I'll put up my PLUG related Feed up on linux.org.ph soon). My primary concern, btw, re this OS are its bundled multimedia apps, which I suppose is largely unnecessary for iCafes. However this is still going to be my daily desktop PC, so some concessions have to be made (I still wanna watch my videos!). Oh and finally, I didn't choose Ubuntu blindly as I have had some experience running a vps webserver using Ubuntu / LAMPP, so I'm actually comfy using terminal and apt, and ironically, zero experience using it as a desktop. Anyway, we'll see. here's the torrent if anyone cares to join me: http://releases.ubuntu.com/8.04/ubuntu-8.04-alternate-i386.iso.torrent incidentally, Gideon's reference to WINE's compatibility list helped a lot in this decision. I just can't live without photoshop. Giving that up is just not gonna happen. gary On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 9:21 PM, Cocoy Dayao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i've tried running wine for online games like pangya (it was the only > gaming disk i could find at the time) about a year ago via wine. no > dice. don't know in wine's 1.0 era or if transgaming's cedega could be > of use for games like those. > > machine in question was an old toshiba satellite laptop. sorry, forgot > the model number. > > wine works for old games like warcraft 3/frozen throne and even jedi > academy for instance. cedega also works great for those games. even > the lan part. didn't try using it to play via the internet... just > within a lan. winehq has a list of games that work and those that do > not. but mileage varies when i tried it out. > > the box used was an old amd64, 1gb ram, ati 9250 128mb video card and > it ran via gentoo. > > hope this info is of some use to you. > > On 05 31, 08, at 7:01 AM, Gerald Quimpo wrote: > >> On Friday 30 May 2008 22:27:50 joebert jacaba wrote: >>> Unfortunately no. The project is untouched for a long time now. >>> >>> I have not tried gyach-improved but have gyach-enhanced which is much >>> more antiquated. I tried making it work on gutsy but to no avail. >>> Library problems. Last time i saw it work is on suse 9. >> >> I'm on gutsy and i've got something called gyachi installed. works >> great with yahoo voice and video. i don't know where i installed it >> from though. not sure if just from the regular ubuntu repositories, >> or from somewhere else. >> >> it'll be from one of these: >> >> deb http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy main restricted >> deb-src http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy main restricted >> >> deb http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates main restricted >> deb-src http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates main >> restricted >> >> deb http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy universe >> deb http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy multiverse >> >> deb http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates universe >> deb http://nz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy-updates multiverse >> >> deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu gutsy partner >> deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu gutsy partner >> >> deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security main restricted >> deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security universe >> deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu gutsy-security multiverse >> >> deb http://apt-mirror.sourceforge.net/ apt-mirror/ >> deb http://download.skype.com/linux/repos/debian/ stable non-free >> >> note: the nz is just because i'm in NZ. choose an ubuntu >> mirror near you. >> >> tiger _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
