Get Linux.

Posted by Firebird on Sept. 24, 2006, 2:17 a.m.

Blog in compact form: Get Linux.

If you do have Linux, what distro? I've got Fedora Core 4. And I'm going to install DSL (Damn Small Linux, only 50MB!) on my usb drive. bash is the shell winner!

Anyway, I'm going to start a C++ project sooner or later, with Halibutski. If any of you are good with drawing sprites and such, give me a PM. The C++ project is a text adventure. Yeah, it's for Windows. I'll port it to Linux.

As usual, I don't have a lot of content. So I'll finish this blog with another image dunp. Yay!

^^ 23 users online.

Alright, not so big.

Keep L337,

Firebird out!

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Comments

Bryan 18 years, 1 month ago

OpenGL isn't better

http://www.gamedev.net/reference/articles/article1775.asp

Windows is actualy better

http://ramikayyali.com/archives/2005/07/25/winlin

Most commercial games have a windows and linux release (or a version for both). But other games only have a windows release.

I did use C++ (for a month)but I feel more pleasant using GM.

melee-master 18 years, 1 month ago

My answer to your blog title: No. Not unless I have a crappy computer to spare.

Firebird 18 years, 1 month ago

Ouch man, those links really hurt. No one bothered to look at Cedega. Oh well, too bad.

I could give you some links explaining the opposite sides of that, but I'll leave you be.

firestormx 18 years, 1 month ago

I had linux a couple years back, and it was nothing incredible…After my hdd died, I didn't even miss it. I recently got Ubuntu linux, to so what I'd been missing out on these past several years of development, and…I haven't really missed out on a whole lot.

Like SJF said, I only use it when I have time to play around. It really isn't as much use to me most of the time, except for novelty purposes.

And anyone who gets viruses is usually not worthy of having a computer in the first place. If you use a computer properly, and have some basic protection (knowing how to use the options on your internet browser, spybot, whatever else you want), and stay away from sites that will no-doubt give you viruses (why would you need to go to those sites anyway. [;)]) you'll be fine.

sinkhead 18 years, 1 month ago

I use Fedora Core 5 and I dual boot with Micro$hit Winblows XPiss.

Juju 18 years, 1 month ago

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MORAL: You suck ma balls.
Real mature. If you're going to act like you're 9 years old, please leave. We don't want your kind of idiocy around here.

You've supplied us with an article which isn't even supporting your statement! I would like to quote from the section entitled "Comments/My Advice" roughly 3/5 of the way down the page:

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For any other 3D industry (and I do mean any other industry) OpenGL will take you far.
You, sir, are a fool.

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That entire page is slating Window. What drugs are you on to think that it would make me think Windows is better? In fact, I'm more against Windows now than I was before because of your articles. That's just plain lazy - Make up some solid arguments at least.

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Micro$hit Winblows XPiss
How many swear words you fit into one 'hilarious' pun? For God's sake, grow up and just call it Windows XP - We all know it's the stealthy corporate arm of Microsoft that you're using, there's no need to make a song and dance of it.

AthamX 18 years, 1 month ago

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Get Linux

Do I get paid for that?

WaleedAmer 18 years, 1 month ago

lol

Arcalyth 18 years, 1 month ago

I don't know why you guys hate Linux so much. I mean, you can dual boot, use Cedega, etc. It's only so hard to press reboot >_>

flashback 18 years, 1 month ago

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I recently got Ubuntu linux, to so what I'd been missing out on these past several years of development, and…I haven't really missed out on a whole lot.
Actually, you did, you just got Ubuntu. Which is a poor distro that happens to have a nice packaging system used in decent distros like MEPIS.