Are you sure your not talking about ActiveX ? On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 18:43, Richard L. Proctor wrote: > On Monday 03 November 2003 6:24 pm, Jason Pfingstmann wrote: > > No, this post is not about a Joyous Psychic. ;) > > > > I am trying to reach a happy medium between Windows and Linux. I like to > > game and I do, like many others, require the use of Windows software > > frequently and with 100% compatibility - more than wine could provide. I > > love Linux's stability and ability to control the system, ease of use, > > etc, etc... I need DirectX capabilities for games and don't want to have > > to reboot to play games. On the other hand I would like Linux stability > > and low overhead when I don't want to run Windows apps. The only solution > > I have come up with that sacrifices some stability is to run my Gentoo > > install through VMWare. This works fine, but the constant "You must > > reboot your computer..blah..blah..blah" in Windows makes this arrangement > > impractical. So I guess my question is this, is there any way to run > > Windows over Linux and still have DirectX capability (not to mention > > decent speed for gaming)? VMWare and Win4Lin both strike out in this > > field. WineX is a "kludge" of a program with infrequent updates compared > > to 99% of Linux software (not worth the $5/month subscription if you ask > > me) - not to mention incompatible with 75% of the games I play. > > > > So, I'm sure that many other Linux users have had the same dilemma and > > have hopefully found a happy medium. I would like to hear any ideas you > > have and what solution others have come up with. > > > > Jason Pfingstmann > > DirectX is where Windows extreme vulnerablities come from. Viruse's, > malicious web sites, etc. DirectX is very dangerous and I doubt you will > ever see it in Linux. Because of these problems, I always surf the net and > read my email via linux, never windows. > > On the other hand, some pretty impressive games are starting to flow out for > linux native mode. I've played Quake 3 Arena for Linux alot. We need more > games of such quality to follow suit. -- Entelin