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Stick with Solaris 10 or try something else?
Post 81656 by desidaerius on Tuesday 23rd of August 2005 02:51:19 AM
08-23-2005
One thing to consider is what your hardware specs are. Since you mention gaming and that you currently run WinXP, I'd assume you have at least the equivalent of a Pentium III, 256-512+ MB of RAM and a decent graphics card.
As it's already been said that gaming is touch and go on Linux and other Unix flavors at best, although some vendors are beginning to distribute Linux binaries of their games, you will probably want to set your machine up to dual boot, keeping WinXP on one partition/drive and putting whatever OS you decide on another.
For me personally, I have a soft spot for Mandriva and Xandros. Everyone else's mileage may vary, but I had very good experiences with them. PC-BSD is also very accessible, and so far I have had to only manually configure one file on my system since installing it. That it includes KDE 3.4 makes the desktop quite accessible to the novice and pro alike.
Hopefully I haven't said anything to start a flamewar. I am merely speaking from my personal experiences in the UNIX world. As I said before, other people's mileage will vary.
As it's already been said that gaming is touch and go on Linux and other Unix flavors at best, although some vendors are beginning to distribute Linux binaries of their games, you will probably want to set your machine up to dual boot, keeping WinXP on one partition/drive and putting whatever OS you decide on another.
For me personally, I have a soft spot for Mandriva and Xandros. Everyone else's mileage may vary, but I had very good experiences with them. PC-BSD is also very accessible, and so far I have had to only manually configure one file on my system since installing it. That it includes KDE 3.4 makes the desktop quite accessible to the novice and pro alike.
Hopefully I haven't said anything to start a flamewar. I am merely speaking from my personal experiences in the UNIX world. As I said before, other people's mileage will vary.
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dm
DM(8) BSD System Manager's Manual DM(8) NAME
dm -- dungeon master SYNOPSIS
ln -s dm game DESCRIPTION
dm is a program used to regulate game playing. dm expects to be invoked with the name of a game that a user wishes to play. This is done by creating symbolic links to dm, in the directory /usr/games for all of the regulated games. The actual binaries for these games should be placed in a ``hidden'' directory, /usr/games/hide, that may only be accessed by the dm program. dm determines if the requested game is available and, if so, runs it. The file /etc/dm.conf controls the conditions under which games may be run. The file /etc/nogames may be used to ``turn off'' game playing. If the file exists, no game playing is allowed; the contents of the file will be displayed to any user requesting a game. FILES
/etc/dm.conf configuration file /etc/nogames turns off game playing /usr/games/hide directory of ``real'' binaries /var/log/games.log game logging file SEE ALSO
dm.conf(5) HISTORY
The dm command appeared in 4.3BSD-Tahoe. SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS
Two issues result from dm running the games setgid ``games''. First, all games that allow users to run UNIX commands should carefully set both the real and effective group ids immediately before executing those commands. Probably more important is that dm never be setgid any- thing but ``games'' so that compromising a game will result only in the user's ability to play games at will. Secondly, games which previ- ously had no reason to run setgid and which accessed user files may have to be modified. BSD
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