Comments on: love that Tux http://blog.floydius.com/2008/07/11/love-that-tux/ it's almost like you've got nothing better to do Wed, 10 Feb 2010 05:46:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Lloyd http://blog.floydius.com/2008/07/11/love-that-tux/comment-page-1/#comment-814 Lloyd Sat, 12 Jul 2008 21:55:57 +0000 http://blog.floydius.com/2008/07/11/love-that-tux/#comment-814 I seriously hope the Steam thing comes to fruition. I'm not holding my breath, though. Also, while running X is totally optional, it's not much of an option in terms of gaming that requires graphics acceleration. If you want to use nVidia or ATI's (AMD, now) drivers, then X11 is a requirement. I use nvidia right now, so behold: http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/173.14.09/README/chapter-02.html Even though X must be running, the advantage is that there are <a href="http://xwinman.org/" rel="nofollow">a large selection of window managers from which to choose</a>. Of course <a href="http://www.kde.org" rel="nofollow">KDE</a> and <a href="http://www.gnome.org" rel="nofollow">GNOME</a> are the most popular, but there are many others that use less resources. You can choose your own window manager for MS variants as well, but it requires more hunting and MS certainly isn't going to help you with it. Also MS ties in a lot of non-essentials (like IE) into the window manager and the kernel so that it is always running and using resources. I seriously hope the Steam thing comes to fruition. I’m not holding my breath, though. Also, while running X is totally optional, it’s not much of an option in terms of gaming that requires graphics acceleration. If you want to use nVidia or ATI’s (AMD, now) drivers, then X11 is a requirement. I use nvidia right now, so behold:

http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/173.14.09/README/chapter-02.html

Even though X must be running, the advantage is that there are a large selection of window managers from which to choose. Of course KDE and GNOME are the most popular, but there are many others that use less resources.

You can choose your own window manager for MS variants as well, but it requires more hunting and MS certainly isn’t going to help you with it. Also MS ties in a lot of non-essentials (like IE) into the window manager and the kernel so that it is always running and using resources.

]]> By: Bryan Tarpley http://blog.floydius.com/2008/07/11/love-that-tux/comment-page-1/#comment-813 Bryan Tarpley Sat, 12 Jul 2008 20:01:12 +0000 http://blog.floydius.com/2008/07/11/love-that-tux/#comment-813 it's a shame they don't make more games for linux. seems without all the overhead of a gui (since running X is optional on linux), they could really max out a machine's resources. plus windows is notoriously bad at taking advantage of multi-core processors. it’s a shame they don’t make more games for linux. seems without all the overhead of a gui (since running X is optional on linux), they could really max out a machine’s resources. plus windows is notoriously bad at taking advantage of multi-core processors.

]]> By: Lloyd http://blog.floydius.com/2008/07/11/love-that-tux/comment-page-1/#comment-807 Lloyd Sat, 12 Jul 2008 04:18:45 +0000 http://blog.floydius.com/2008/07/11/love-that-tux/#comment-807 heh, I actually thought about that very thing when I was typing this up. heh, I actually thought about that very thing when I was typing this up.

]]> By: Philip III http://blog.floydius.com/2008/07/11/love-that-tux/comment-page-1/#comment-802 Philip III Fri, 11 Jul 2008 22:39:27 +0000 http://blog.floydius.com/2008/07/11/love-that-tux/#comment-802 I think I understand this about as well as you understand baseball I think I understand this about as well as you understand baseball

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