a who what? what the hell is this about.

Linux comes from the net

I see your later post down below. You have to make sure fixxor that all your hardware meets the hcl of whatever flavor of linux you choose. As of now I am running fedora core 6. I started back in the day of redhat 6 on an old rig of mine. I recommend if your starting for the first time to buy an old rig for dirt cheap and experiment as linux is not for everyone.
Downloading proggies is done via yum
There are a tonne of forums out there with lots of people who will help ya

http://www.linux.org/
http://www.gnu.org/
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/
http://www.linuxforums.org/
http://www.transgaming.com/index.php?mo ... ay&ceid=29
http://ktorrent.org/
http://www.winehq.org/
http://frankscorner.org/index.php

The list goes on Im sure everyone can add to it. The only problem I ran into is the kmod-driver I have to use the i586 rpm because of my amd chip.

Well i got ubuntu installed and running. I have an old system thats pretty decent and was gonna use that for a linux box but i just decided to install on another harddrive on this comp, and have a dual boot going.

First impressions of it are kinda like blah, it feels kinda restricted although i dont know what im doing but... So ive been messing with it for like a day or so and learning some things, d/l ut2004 demo and got that installed and running, and also switched from gnome to kde, and i am starting to like it more as kde is a lot more customizable. I also got some NTFS drive mounter so it will auto mount my windows drives so i can listen and access my stuff.

I got a question. It seems i dont really have to install any system drivers, is this true? Feeling weird not having to go through and install all my drivers and programs, everything is there.

Thanx for the help guys.

System drivers are there. They are simply pre-installed (for the most part).

I'm fairly confident you already know this, but try not to write to NTFS from Linux, yes? Good.

Another link
http://www.liflg.org/

Oh yeah, im not even gonna go there

interesting.

batcula, how do you game on linux?

I signed up for cedega for 3 mths for the low price of 15$ then canceled my subscription. But before I canceled WormbOA I downloaded all the archived rpms of cedega.
It seems to work a little better then wine. Wine requires lots of tweaking. I use to just download the torrents, but thats like having sex without a rubber. That link above has an installer for games like Enemy territory, which is native to linux. Anywho got to get to work

It would seem that my options for gaming under linux are slim to none.

I have used wine to install steam multiple times, which works. Then I install NS, and it lags something horrible.

: (

I dunno...
Ubuntu is still rather new... If I were going to put together another *nix box, I'd probably use Fedora (new Red Hat), Suse, or Gentoo. Gentoo is pretty cool because of the ports system (similar to FreeBSD), but gah, it's user manual is a book.

Suse and Fedora are used pretty much in my industry, with Suse apparently being the one that SGI picked to power their newer Altix server. I've never actually used Suse, though... The only *nix OSes that I'm intimately familar with are: Red Hat 8, FreeBSD 4.X and 5.X, OpenBSD, Solaris, Irix, and MacOSX. I'm starting to just not give a damn. Give me the GNU enviornment on the command line and I'm happy.

Yeah... I fell in love with the Mac laptop after I went to the terminal and typed:
ls -lFGhtr and it did exactly what I expected... Then after some df -h, top, grep -C, grep -A, du -hd1 tests, I was happy.... and glad I didn't need to spend hours of my life figuring out how the hell to get a battery monitor to work in linux on my laptop.

I a have never tried unbuntu, just a RH/Fedora guy here.
Have you tried running wine/ns in a konsole ie terminal window to see errors?
I also find that kde seems to handle wine/cedega better the gnome. Also cedega has an auto detect feature for your system. Have you updated your version of wine?

latest version of wine, yes.

Have only tried on Suse and Ubuntu.

I run it via terminal window every time, and I constantly get these errors: