Who's doing the porting and where do we get them. Some time ago I wanted
to get some of the games and all the links pointed to Loki who was no
more.
On Tue, 24 May 2005, Johannes Weiner wrote:
Games don't run well in emulation, especially Doom III and Half-Life 2,
due to the heavy use of DirectX. You can try Wine or Cedega, but even
the fastest systems will experience quite a performance hit. You're
best off dual-booting a copy of Windows and running the games from
there. It's OK, dual-booting for playing games is a perfectly
acceptable use of Windows. :-P
DoomIII runs native on linux. Half-LifeII will be ported soon too.
As for OpenOffice.org, I use it all the time, even on my Windows
machines. Why pay $500 for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, FrontPage and
Outlook when you've got OpenOffice and Thunderbird all for free (plus
any donations you make)? They can read and write Office files with
minimal trouble. The only thing you'll miss is the Office shortcut bar,
but just copy the icons to GNOME's top panel and you're back in business.
I was highly recommended the new OpenOffice. Looking forward for OOo2 :)
Greets hannes
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