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Here's the start of something I tried to do once: Compile a list of equivalent software for linux so that Win migrants can get right to work. I'll work on the actual links another day. Note I put my favorites/most win-like/easiest in bold. [*]Internet Security/ZoneAlarm - Guarddog (KDE) or Firewall Builder; Firestarter (Gnome) [*]winamp - zinf or xmms [*]Nero/Easy CD Creator - k3b or CDBakeOven [*]CAD - OpenCASCADE, VariCAD, freeCAD [*]M$Office - OpenOffice.org or KOffice [*]Download Accelerator Plus - KGet or D4X (downloader for x) [*]DVD player- Ogle (& Okle is the GUI frontend) {You'll need some libs} [*]DivX/avi/mpg movie/win media Player - Xine or Mplayer [*]Soundforge - Audacity [*]M$Visio - dia [*]ICQ/msn/others - gaim [*]PSP/Photoshop - GIMP [*]WinZip - ARK (much more than just zip) [*]TVtuner - XAWtv [*]Norton/Windows/Total Commander - Krusader in X or mc (midnight commander) in console For Games check out DOlson's Kick@$$ Page. A few notes: Audacity and Dia haul ass. They were the final two missing links. I have finally reached the point where I know 90% of everything there is to know about linux, and I've found all the software that matches whatever I used to need that outdated OS for. As I said, I'll be working on expanding this list, getting links for every one of these, AND writing detailed, simple how-to's on how I got every one of them working in the hopes DOlson will post them on his page too. Enjoy!

A little OT: What's SDL? and OpenAL? Love the sig!! (May the source be with you) lol

I'm completely with you on this, every step of the way, which is why I posted this thread (note the link vs wineX in the article). But just so ya know, I actually posted it to Newsforge the same day as this - it just takes that long to get published! I would've included some of these great points you've made. Don't half the people who reponded on newsforge tick you off?? Anyway, Merry Christmas man; I wish you all the best. And to the rest of you, too.

You mean outcast or nwn? I thought there was no outcast (JK2) for linux...

LOL! Ah I see! That makes it all clear to me now!

Star wars is great, but this new trend of pop star wars hitting the theaters lately can quit it. I bet there will be some cool things in episode 3 because of how dark it'll need to be. Regardless, DOlsen - you don't like the games? Jedi Knight II is great! And now an in-depth RPG? I'll take two!! (Supposing they make a linux installer...)

And you're doing a bang-up job. I try to relay as much traffic there as I can - I recommend it to all my linux buddies for their gaming needs.

Oh I know ;) I wrote in that post "here it is despite it being all over the web" because I love to get people started. It runs a little faster than 1.5x in linux for me! No sweat - it's just that YOU would have played sooner than waiting for him to type it again!! :D

Not to be snotty, but please search before posting the original question. I feel sorry for johnnyv having to type all that out when I did it last week in Quake3 For windows ON linux? about 5 threads below this one in the same forum (Games) One of us did it for nothing...

Yeah - I bet you're right to some degree. "Let's sell now, make it work later! Meet that deadline!" Ugh.

So you think they'll make other games if the ones that do support linux don't sell? That's not the case. Anyone who makes a game believes in it - otherwise they wouldn't have made it. The Star Trek Armada 2 guys don't care if you think a FPS sucks - if "Linux games" don't sell, linux games don't sell. So they won't bother porting their engine. Besides, I'm not trying to get people to buy games they don't want, I'm trying to get linux users to buy games they do want instead of pirating, which I might do massive amounts of in windows. As for wineX, it's handy, I'll give you that; but it gives the wrong impression - why care about linux support at all as a company? At some future point people are going to forget how to program well in favour of programming easy. I would equally disagree with linux only games that just happened to run on a linux emulator for windows, except I don't care if windows succeeds for anything, really. I'm looking forward to the installation procedure [for anything] simplifying in linux. That'll really move us along. Basically the point of my writing this is I see M$ as the theif, not linux users. Let's try to further that impression.

You have to post what the hardware is, what you've tried, and what messages you got if you want help. We aren't psychic! :)

Cool! Will that leave the mp3's there too or are they oblitherated by the conversion into oggs? Also, where is the proper codec for ogg for windows so we can play them in both environments? I tried once to convert mp3's and they ended up being OK in linux and unreadable in windows..

Has *anyone* told mandrake yet?

Yo G, remember I had put some stuff into modules.conf for ya, between the two comments (#)

Hey - about this twilight quake 1 thing - is it 3D like GLQuake? I really hope so! I'd love to play all the way through quake again, this time in linux with 3D! Hey - any improvments for multiplayer? Like a good way to find internet games perhaps?

Yes, yes - Enjoy! Hope to blow you to pieces soon! DOlson - I'm coming with those tutorials, it's just so hard to finish them when your editor dumps you, you try to live a real life despite school and work, you have a car accident, and you don't touch your computer much anymore because it's what you do all day! I'll get them done soon, promise. The next month has me less busy anyway. Hopefully in time for your site's overhaul.

Alright people, here's our chance. I've posted similar threads, but this time I mean business. If we want issues like the wineX problem resolved for the better, WE HAVE TO BUY NATIVE LINUX GAMES. No ripping them. Doom 3, neverwinter nights, and so on are due out soon, and this is the linux community's chance to truly make a difference. We must show these companies who look to award winning, linux supporting game developers like Bioware and id Software that we, as a whole, do buy games, do use linux, and do represent a notable share of the market for software (games more specifically in this case). Numbers don't lie, they say, so let's show them the truth. We exist in greater numbers than they expect, and we ARE willing to pay for software. We are NOT the pirates our adversaries have attepted to make us look like. So how can you help? Buy Doom 3 for Linux when it is released. Buy Neverwinter Nights for Linux when it is released. If you can't afford them, ask for them for your birthday, or the gift exchange holiday of choice for your religion/area of the world. Buy them for others as gifts. Write polite, constructive letters to game and other software companies explaining a truthful number of people you know personally who will buy the linux version of ___________. It really is now or never, and between $40-$100 dollars is not too much to spend to send a powerful message to Blizzard, Transgaming, Ahead, Sonic Foundry, whoever the Grand Theft Auto people are nowadays, etc... Remember - games are what push hardware development, too. Nothing else on a considerable scale affects the hardware industry like games (things like video editing are PALE in comparison when we're talking revenue for an industry as a whole). Get involved, put your money where your mouth is, and let's show the world we too mean business. Sitting around telling each other how bad we want native linux games isn't getting the message to the people who need to hear it. Money talks.

I would have said something like that too, but for the fact that it works in 8! Strange, man. Strange.

Alright n00bie, suck GAS. As in the Great Assistence of Static! Considering others have gotten sound to work on toshiba laptops, there may be a way around this issue. The problem lies in figuring out this way around. I believe setting the pnp os option to no makes the bios help configure things like sound before getting to the OS at all. So maybe it would work if the right sound module is loaded and then you ran sndconfig? I'm just guessing here - hoping someone with a better clue will jump in at any time...

Hey Hattr, did it work for you? If not we can probably still help you more!

A friend recently told me he had always said "lie-nux" until he heard Linus say "lin - ix". I've always said lin-ix, and it goes well with the minix analogy. Lie-nux bugs me a little, but I'll only say something if it's a windows user bashing it!

PS Best thing I ever did too. Couldn't be happier. All me games are installed only once but playable in both - in /home/static AND in MY Documents I have links to /share/music (or F:[share]music if you prefer) where I keep all my mp3's, etc...

What I did was install windows on NTFS so that I couldn't accidentally screw it up while in linux (4 gig NTFS partition) then I made a 27.5 gig fat32 partition called share that they both can write to. 4 gigs for linux, and another 4.5 for screwing around with other distributions and BSDs et cetera.

Reading the relatively new thread on faster printer drivers you can buy, I realized that not everyone has read the articles and been to the websites I have, so I decided to inform you of an accelerated X server you can buy. Xi Graphics offers an accelerated X server you can buy that replaces XFree86. There - done. Check this out at least! This, coupled with a nVidia GF4 with native linux drivers, must boot along like we can't imagine!!