On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 08:49:13PM +0800, Federico Sevilla III wrote: > On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 06:42:34PM +0800, Genfil Villahermosa wrote: > > I am also planning to start an internet cafe. Linux will be good > > choice for an OS. Do you think people will accept it? ( most of them > > know only Windows) > > >From personal experience observing my schoolmates, and from stories > relayed to the list awhile back by my cousin Dido (Rafael Sevilla), a > lot of people actually go to Internet cafes to play games. I'm sure Wine > can run a growing number of Windows games on GNU/Linux, but there will > be a speed penalty and this will hurt.
We only had two machines running Linux in the shop before: one that acted as a router doing ipmasq and a CS server from time to time, and a POS machine that ran the custom software I hacked together for running the shop's day to day operations. Back then WINE was in pretty ugly shape, and I couldn't get it to run even something as simple as Solitaire. I don't know how that might shape up with the way it is today. Besides, it's still very true: go into any "Internet shop" and you'll see that most of the customers are kids playing CounterStrike or WarCraft III or whatever game is in season these days. The number of shops that deal in pure Internet is few, but there might be a market there. -- Rafael R. Sevilla <dido at imperium dot ph> +63(2)8123151 Software Developer, Imperium Technology Inc. +63(917)4458925 _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
