Happy Medium

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.
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Entelin <entelin@logicaldreams.net>