Of Wine and Warcraft

I wanted to play Wrath of the Lich King, and couldn't afford a Windows XP license. I figured out how to play it in Linux, and never looked back. My distro reviews always discuss framerates.

Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Reviving Old Hardware

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Alan D. Moore has written an excellent series on reviving an old PC with Linux. Part I: Defining Expectations Part II: Hardware Compati...

Monday, October 22, 2012

OpenSUSE 12.2

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I've bought myself an EVGA GT630 GPU. It was a close call between that and a 9800GT, but the GT630 won on two points: it has openGL 4....

Sunday, September 16, 2012

Kororaa 17 "Bubbles" 32 Bit

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I've been interested in Kororaa, as it intends to be to Fedora about what Ubuntu is to Debian (or perhaps as Mint is to Ubuntu). The de...

Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Bodhi Linux 2.0

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Bodhi Linux 2.0.0 32 bit I've been looking forward to trying Bodhi Linux for quite some time. My preferred environment for playing Wo...

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Thursday, July 19, 2012

Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04.4

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Just for the heck of it, I went and grabbed the latest i386 ISO for Ubuntu Lucid Lynx, 10.04.4, to see just how well the old workhorse works...

Wednesday, July 4, 2012

Madbox 12.04 i386

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When I saw that the Wine PPA for Ubuntu had advanced to 1.5.7, I said I'd try a new Ubuntu-based distro to use with it. Lubuntu is my p...

Monday, June 25, 2012

Ubuntu and WoW

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Turns out I was wrong when I said that nobody in the Debian ecosystem is providing Wine 1.5.6, the version required to run World of Warcraft...

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Linux Learner: I'm not currently playing on my ABIT KN8 v1.1 mobo with a dual-core AMD Athlon X2 3800 CPU, 3 GB of RAM, and a 2 GP EVGA Nvidia GT630 GPU with 2MB of 128bit DDR3 RAM, powered by a Corsair CX430 power supply. Send email to linux1earnr at gmail dot com.

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