PS + Linux

cynicalscope · 2003-03-07, 12:48 PM

Hum I wonder if sony will be kind enough to support the linux community out there. I know alot of linux users that are looking forward to this game.

Maybe that will be nice enough to be like sierra and toss in the linux binaries..

Lets us all hope and pray to the SOE god that they do..

ABRAXAAS · 2003-03-07, 12:57 PM

One of these days I wanna switch to linux, but i dont know enough about windows and all i do is play videogames, so untill theres better support ill have to wait but good luck wit dat

Hamma · 2003-03-07, 01:19 PM

I doubt it.

�io · 2003-03-07, 01:27 PM

Why not just install windohs on another HD or sector. It doesn't take up that much room if you have a 40+ Gig HD.

cynicalscope · 2003-03-07, 02:53 PM

Why would I want to install windows on my machine. I can play almost every game on linux that can be played on windows.

A little toy known as winex has allowed me to do this. I prefer the linux kernal system over the win kernal.

Mind you know I am not a flaming windows hater. Hell I used it for such a long time, that I thought I would never leave it. But once I understood the advantages of a linux box. I quickly switched. If you ask me, the distro developers are putting in alot of over time to give the new gen of *nix kernals a more user appeal. I find that mdk 9.0 is very user friendly. It has a wizard for just about evreything. But then again there are kernals such as debian which I just love. It has the functionality that I have come to expect in a distro release.

For all the people sitting on the teeter-tater of windows or linux. Why not try them both as dio stated. But as for me, I will stick to my solo nix boxs.

Yeraze · 2003-08-10, 12:36 AM

But I only run Linux on both of my PC's, my laptop, and at work. I've seen the game, I have some friends who play, and I would *love* to get in on some of the action.

But there is no way I'm gonna pay an extra $99 (To buy Windows) on top of the required $15 a month, just so I can play planetside. Not to mention all the trouble with setting up and maintaining the network stuff, the broken windows activation, the driver problems, the BSOD's, etc.

So until someone (Sony or otherwise) gets it on linux, I'll stick with Quake3 & Unreal2. Why don't game companies use things like Knoppix for these games? OS, Game, drivers, all included. Everything is stored on the server, maybe use the HD as a simple cache storage....

firecrackerNC · 2003-08-10, 12:46 AM

why would you want to buy planetside?

Squick · 2003-08-10, 12:48 AM

Originally posted by cynicalscope
Why would I want to install windows on my machine. I can play almost every game on linux that can be played on windows.

To play Planetside? Isn't that what the original post was for?

Planetside is not a popular game, so the few hundred extra sales a Linux port would give them is not going to persuade SOE to make it... If SOE was going to put effort into a Linux project I would think it would be to cement Everquest2's Linux compatability, since that will be SOE's next flagship game.

Squick