Re: [SuSE Linux] What DO you lose with Linux ???
-----Original Message-----
From: Robert V. MacQuarrie <adren@mail.provision.net>
To: Debian-User-Mailing-List <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Cc: BENJAMIN FARRELL <i97bf@tay.ac.uk>
Date: 31 March 1999 08:00
Subject: Re: [SuSE Linux] What DO you lose with Linux ???
>>> Heres a good point about linux, anyone found a good irc client for x
>>(other
>>> than Bitchx in a E-Term :) that doesn't crash everytime you click
(yagirc
>>> anyone).
>>> I still find for everyday use Win95/NT is better (quaking, ircing,
>>> browsing, ftping).
>
>OK well folks dont shoot me and no i dont use it often but.. mIRC runs
>just great from linux using the standard wine config. Yes this is the
>windowsXX irc client.. I simply type 'wine /dos/mirc/mirc32.exe&' and it
>starts up. I run #Hottub on UnderNet and from time to time i help the
>other ops with their mIRC scripts. Wine also installed mirc for me on a
>very small windows/dos partition. This I found was great as I havent
>booted that windows partition in well over a year now :-)
Heh, haven't tried mirc (don't really like) but almost managed to get xircon
working using wine.
>I used tkirc alot last year and found it quite stable. I've been irc'ing
>since 91 or 92 and it's always been from the console or an xterm and it's
>how i continue to now :-) It's hard to get away from it after so long.
Don't like havin' lots of windows all other the place (I like 1 window per
channel), fiind bitchx very nice to use.
>As for browsing, downloading, uploading... I have always found that linux
>gave me a much better (more stable/reliable) connection via dialups. I've
>always noticed a difference in higher speeds and performance in linux.
Don't know I got a cheapo modem, which has turned out to be a winmodem
(YUCK), should be gettiing a decent modem soon thu.
>Quake.. Well it just rocks from linux. I've played from windows a few
>times and find it ran faster in linux. This is believe has to do with
>windows eating so much memory and not swapping as well as under linux.
Software QuakeWorld does yes, glquakeworld nope, runs quite a bit slower
(thats with the glibc version of everything). So I still use NT for
quakin'(doesn't swap to much in NT if u kill of some services from control
panel:).
>
>-Rob aka Adrenolin@UnderNet
>
:Ben Farrell
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