GFUNK's plea to Nevrax and the community...

[trosky]

wait a sec.. did I hear you correctly trosky, that ryzom is built on NeL?

? (are you joking ?) http://www.nevrax.org/

[gddss]

Well I think if it's not that difficult for them to make the changes to support Linux, then they should. If they can make the changes for Radeon Card users verses G-Force, then they can certainly do this I would think.

[zumwalt]

LOL I thought http://www.nervax.org was a joke, meaning I didn't think it was the actual company, the site is way to generic and under organized....

holy crap was I wrong...

[xenofur]

puts what they already managed to do in a completely different light, hm? =)

[thexdane]

LOL I thought http://www.nervax.org was a joke, meaning I didn't think it was the actual company, the site is way to generic and under organized....

holy crap was I wrong...

under organized?

it's rather oranized and easy to navigate

ok so i don't flame you too bad i'll turn down the heat on my flamethrower

I was calling for a windows replacement, NOT another game with a linux engine.

what else would replace windows beside another operating system? even if you change the explorer shell, you are still running windows, a new clown suit doesn't change the fact that you're still at the circus

i'd like to know what game engines you think are ported to linux already. cause i'm sure i've named more than you can think of

Granted I haven't looked into the state of Linux, but when I did. The games for it were umm graphically challenged would be a kind way to put it. When I did look, Linux was the best way to go...business apps wise, but for games, it was a sad state of affairs.

actually the games AREN'T graphically challenged. let me do a small list of games for linux

doom
doom 2
doom 3
quake
quake 2
quake 3
unreal tournament
unreal tournament 2k3
unreal tournament 2k4
neverwinter nights
tribes 2
sid meyers alpha centauri
kohan
duke nukem 3d
rise of the triad
cube
america's army
return to castle wolfenstein
alien vs predator
postal
postal 2

http://icculus.org has a list of tons of "graphically" challenged linux games
if you think they're graphically challenged you've got some reconsidering to do

linux isn't good at business apps, well really only accounting software, they've got the rest covered already.

btw incase you didn't know linux was used to do all the special effects for the scooby do movies, lord of the rings and all the pixar movies and some of the star wars stuff

But then I am a full time mom and business owner, I don't have time to spend looking for something better than the latest MS bovine scatology.

And thanks for that cartoon, *smirk* just because we are crazy doesn't mean we aren't RIGHT *smug look*

what does this have to do with anything? i'm a business owner and linux advocate, i've always got time to learn new things.

it would be nice if you didn't use your children to make up for you ignorance of a subject

[sydius]

under organized?

Yes. I would say it is also.

[trosky]

Most open source related website are very basic, they dont really care for looks as long as the content is ok.

Heres a couple of them :

http://sourceforge.net/
http://www.freebsd.org/
http://www.mandrakelinux.com/
http://www.opensource.org/
http://www.openbsd.org/
http://www.linux.org
http://www.kernel.org/
http://www.debian.org/
http://www.slackware.com/

and the list goes on....

[tetra]

linux advocate

This is the problem with this thread...

Computers are a tool.
Software, including games, are tools.
Operating systems are tools.

Use the tool best for the job, in the case of games, it is almost always windows. To be brutally honest, I would be rather pissed if nevrax wasted the dev time needed to port the client over to linux, instead of spending that money on something that would actually effect the game in a positive way. The number of folks who would not play the game if they could not play it in windows, is such a tiny fractional minority, that it's not even a statistical blip.

[trosky]

Windows is not the best tool for the job. Its the most used tool for the job. Even the Windows user would benefit from having a Linux client :

1- The Linux mmorpg players might be very interested in Ryzom = more players

2- Open Source means people at home can iron out bugs in the client, those bugs could also be present in the Windows version.

3- It also means they can improve the performance of the client, and again the Windows user could benifit from that.

4- It would give more visibility to Ryzom = more players again


Im no computer programmer, my personnal experience with open source is DeviceNet (open source automation technology). So this might be a little biased... feel free to correct me if im wrong in my statements.

[tetra]

1- The Linux mmorpg players might be very interested in Ryzom = more players

Unfortunately for eGenesis, the total number of players on Linux is dramatically smaller than the number on Windows, representing less than 1% of total players -- 101 subscribers out of 7,063

It's such a statistically small number that it is simply not worth wasting dev time on... especially when most of those folks are perfectly capable of booting into windows to play.