Centauri's Thoughts

One of the things I gave up 5 years ago to use unix on the desktop was games. I didnt really play very many, and I had at that time, maybe 20 total, and considered this a small price to pay to gain all the other advantages.

After some chats with people more savvy than I about the advances in the linux community recently, I bought, installed and began to use a graphics card. The one I got for my motherboard, and is a good balance of price/performance is the GeForce 8600 GT.

After installing the card, there is a procedure for turning off the old drivers, and getting a minimal driver running then install the Nvidia proper driver. After that, its gaming time!

I can again play Quake 3, and now a new one Enemy Territory: Quake Wars.

I knew it would happen someday.

Today we loaded BOTH ancient machines up with their fill of the older games we have (That IS one of the primary purposes of said old machines).


Quake II, Quake III, F-22 Raptor & Half-Life are some of those we use these machines for, mostly because we can play each other or the games are just decent on their own.


I dont have the inclination nor the time to keep up with games anymore, but I do enjoy the few we have.


What else does one do with an 80 Gig hard drive that no longer contains all the things that we usually carry around, like collections of e-mail, graphics, mp3, mpegs, etc. Thats all on our Primary unix machines now.