BLUG Future Topis (Was: [lug] How did the Install/Info Fest turn out?)

[Paul Hardiman]

I concur with Jeff. At my shop we custom build our machinery and we are always
tuning  kernels and loading new drivers. Games are a quick and informal way to
stress the network, and the machinery as a whole and its components. Perhaps games
don't need to dominate expos, but they do have a legitimate place and if setup
right,  make great eye candy.

Viva la fat bird.

(Flames are welcome and will, of course,  be graded.)

Jeff S Howell wrote:

> > On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Michael Deck wrote:
> >
> > > I may be all alone out here, but I'm going to disagree with this statement.
> > > I have no interest in games whatsoever: I spend more than 8 hours in front
> > > of this doggone tube and when I'm not working I want to be as far from it
> > > as possible. My heart and mind would be more quickly won with a focus on
> > > productivity and reliability tools.
> >
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> One other point we're missing here. Games are typically the most complex
> and demanding programs run on a desktop system. What better way to learn
> how a system works? Learning how to optimize graphics, sound, file
> systems, memory, etc. to get the best performance. It's how I learned
> Dos/Windows and now that games are hitting Linux I'm doing more than
> tinkering with Samba and daemons at home and digging into OSS, Mesa, and
> so forth. I got my copy of Quake3 Arena for Linux from Loki on Monday
> and it rocks. But the video performance is way lower than it is under
> Windoze. So now I'm going through my system with a microscope to
> optimize it.
> ...
> --
>  Jeff Howell
>  EDS Unix Support
>  PowerBak Administrator
>

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                 Paul Hardiman
            InterMedia, Inc (Colorado)
         Informations Systems Consulting
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