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Posted by Toby A Inkster on 07/13/07 08:54
SpaceGirl wrote:
> Have you even the slightest clue of how kids actually use machines? A
> linux machine would be pretty much the least ideal platform, given the
> lack of proper flash, games etc. I think the very first time she
> realises she can no longer use her bebo or myspace or youtube pages
> she'd be back on Windows.
Flash 9 is available for Linux. It came a little later than the Windows
version, but it arrived eventually. (Flash 8 for Linux didn't exist, so we
were stuck on 7 for a while, which was a little annoying.)
YouTube works fine here. Sadly, so does MySpace. Not sure about Bebo --
never visited it.
As for games, Transgaming Cedega makes it possible to play most of the
popular Windows games on Linux. (Cedega is a commerical version of the open
source Windows compatibility layer WINE, which forked off before WINE
became GPL.) A Cedega subscription costs £3 per month, with a minimum
subscription period of 3 months. That's a drop in the ocean compared to
the cost of most games these days!
Some would argue that the experience of playing a Windows game through
Cedega is preferable to playing it natively. While many games in Windows
forcibly take over your entire screen, Cedega allows you to play them in a
window. Although it's unlikely you'd want to use this to work on your
business accounts spreadsheet while in the middle of Doom 3, it might be
useful to look up hints and tips on the web while playing.
And yes, Mir:
http://games.cedega.com/gamesdb/games/view.mhtml?game_id=3518
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Toby A Inkster BSc (Hons) ARCS
[Geek of HTML/SQL/Perl/PHP/Python/Apache/Linux]
[OS: Linux 2.6.12-12mdksmp, up 22 days, 12:10.]
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