GNOMEish paradise

Auto Date Friday, May 16th, 2008

Mah Desktawp

I’ve been talking about it for a while, but I’ve finally gotten around to dual booting Linux again. I was using Fedora Core 7 back then, and quite honestly it was way inferior to Fedora 9 and Ubuntu 8 today. It took a while to install since my internal CD drives are busted and I had to figure out how to get my BIOS to boot properly from my extermal drive, but after toying around with motherboard drivers and BIOS reinstalls, I finally got it to work. I tried the live CDs of both Fedora 9 and Ubuntu 8 (hardy), and I liked Ubuntu 8 a bit more, so I went with that. I’m really surprised on how much Linux has advanced in these couple years–it’s amazing. I’d have no problem using Ubuntu as my default OS–I like it better than XP. No doubt. It’s taken me about a day total to get everything set up, but it finally is and now I get to enjoy it. I even figured out how to get Steam and GMod running through WINE, which is great. There’s a strange bug when you have your unarmed SWEP out that I can’t possibly understand, but who cares. It still functions and runs with decent FPS, and that’s all I care about. Only things I’d have to dualboot back to XP for are certain games that I can’t emulate (CoD4 and Continuum, namely), and the remote desktop client so I can connect to my server and update it’s SVN and stuff. Meh, I could probably emulate that too if I figured out where it is. Hopefully I can, then I won’t have to switch back and forth all the time.

GMod on WINEI

Anyway, as for coding, not too much. There’s just SWEPs and SENTs now, and that’s not really too exciting to report on. I’ve finished all the class-specific things, though, although the fire axe’s FoV is really screwed. It’s just the TF2 model, I can’t figure out how to fix it up nicely. Also, punching is really messed up on dedicateds, but I think I fixed that. I tested it out last night (or was it the night before…) with PP and I think I fixed it then. Hopefully I did. I wanna do all my dedicated testing before launch day, that way we don’t end up two+ hours late like when we were beta testing.

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9 Responses to “GNOMEish paradise”

  1. gmt2001 Says:
    May 17th, 2008 at 10:33 am

    The remote desktop client is called mstsc

    In XP you can run it by simply typing that in the RUN box

  2. Doug Says:
    May 17th, 2008 at 11:32 am

    Ah, thanks. I’ll see if I can find the EXE and WINE that then.

  3. Icewielder Says:
    May 26th, 2008 at 11:37 am

    Doug have you tried Linux Mint? Its basically a better version of Hardy. You might give the latest version Elyssa a spin. I think you would like it.

  4. Doug Says:
    May 30th, 2008 at 9:47 pm

    I can’t say I have, but from what I’ve seen it looks alright. It’s based off Ubuntu, right? It seems a bit bloater–reminds me of a cross between OSX and Windows.

  5. Icewielder Says:
    June 3rd, 2008 at 10:44 am

    Yes its based off of Ubuntu, but it actually no-longer shares the same base. Surprisingly it is very fast and stable, seems like its bloated, but its actually not. Its very fast. Only downside is no 64Bit vs yet. :(

  6. Doug Says:
    June 4th, 2008 at 12:03 pm

    Ah. I don’t have 64-bit anyway so I should be fine, hehe.
    I’ll try it out.

  7. Icewielder Says:
    June 7th, 2008 at 9:51 pm

    Good man, also take a look at ubuntu ultimate. (Other than someone going nuts with Gimp’s chrome plugin its a good distro) Lots of features. Thats truly the one if you want everything, but mint is very nice.

    And ironically Doug, you introduced me to Linux. Haven’t gone back since. Remember ASC and FS?

  8. Doug Says:
    June 10th, 2008 at 10:04 am

    Even more ironically, I haven’t been using Linux lately because of my sound card. I have a new one that works with ALSA now, but I just haven’t had it in me to finally migrate over. Weird.
    Yeah, ASC and FS were great. I tried my hand at SWBF2 again a couple days ago just for the hell of it, and I still had some skill. Either that or everyone sucks now. :p
    So where’ve you been lately? I’ve been trying to look for you on XFire but you haven’t been on.

  9. Icewielder Says:
    June 10th, 2008 at 4:02 pm

    Well most of the time I’m in Linux and haven’t tried to get xfire working in Wine yet. When I am on I don’t use my old account. I’ll add you next time I start up old Windows. And on SWBF2 everyone sucks now. Well I haven’t played in a few months but I had 2000 hrs…Anyhow, I’ll add you :)

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