[mdlug] CAD vs CAE (for linux)

[Morris, Tim]

 "[B]eing able to break security doesn't make you a hacker any more
than being able to hotwire cars makes you an automotive engineer."

... I really like that one! Where do you get these? Is it a Sig program
or are they quotes you made up?


--  Tim Morris - UGS PLM Software

-----Original Message-----
From: mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org [mailto:mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org] On Behalf
Of Ingles, Raymond
Sent: Monday, July 09, 2007 3:02 PM
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Subject: Re: [mdlug] CAD vs CAE (for linux)


> From: Wolfger

> That statement doesn't make any sense. I like gaming on Linux, and yet

> I still have to jump through the same hoops (if not more) as my 
> Windows-using counterparts to play the same games they do.

 Well, I don't play all of the same games they do. I play a lot of them
(Quake [I II III], Unreal Tournament, Aliens vs Predator, Descent 3,
RTCW,
etc.) but they have native Linux ports. I have Introversion's Uplink and
Darwinia, and today's my birthday. I'm hoping I'll get DEFCON tonight.
I'm also pondering Cold War, if I get enough 'fun money'. None of the
above games require any kind of crack or anything to play under Linux...

 The only game that I play on Linux that required any kind of 'crack'
was "American McGee's Alice". Plays great under Wine, flawlessly as far
as I can tell.

> I think what you mean is that you like open source games.

 I also enjoy quality time with BZFlag and suchlike, of course.

> "Gaming on Linux" is not necessarily open source.

 Yup, you're right. But when closed-source games have Linux native
ports, I haven't run into a one that required any kind of 'CD
Validation' or anything like that.

 Sincerely,

 Ray Ingles                                          (313) 227-2317

 "[B]eing able to break security doesn't make you a hacker any more
than being able to hotwire cars makes you an automotive engineer."
                     - Eric Scott Raymond

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