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Kinda but also no... One state within Germany (Schleswig-Holstein) has ditched MS in favour of Linux (two years ago, in fact). This follows a period of about a decade where the Munich city government was a Linux shop, and a little more recently with Lower Saxony. The French police have long...

It’s not something you need to install per se: if you have kernel 6.14 or newer it’s probably already been built. If your kernel allows config access (i.e. if /proc/config.gz exists) then you can do: zcat /proc/config.gz | grep NTSYNC If it returns CONFIG_NTSYNC=m (or similar, working from...

Humour me - just try it :p

For the stuttering, have you increased your vm max map count? Try sudo echo 1048576 > /proc/sys/vm/max_map_count then run the game again. If it works, then you can make this a permanent setting by: sudo echo "vm.max_map_count = 1048576" > /etc/sysctl.d/99-max_map_count.conf

I think that point was quite well made in the video, though - it's not the same sort of revolutionary change that fsync delivered, but re-imagines it by removing the need for a translation layer. If you've got a game that's heavily CPU limited, and relies a lot on Windows shared resource calls...

Emulated thread calls vs. native implementation of thread calls... what's not to love?

For jpeg, it just needed to be libjpeg.so.8 - in Gentoo, there's a libjpeg-compat in the Steam overlay which provides this. For binary distros I have no idea. libssl and libcrypt were the crufty, nasty libraries I alluded to - the later version of zandronum doesn't require them and uses...

I was interested when you stated there was a native linux version, so did some playing: First off, I downloaded the package "Brutal Doom 64 2.0 on Linux" which already had the necessary skins and whatnot extracted. Running ldd on the zandronum binary showed that it pulled in a load of old and...

Sure - I haven't really played around with fiction since I burned out. Before that my mum and I were constantly sending each other ideas, short stories and passages from ideas for longer texts. I'll send you some notes over PM.

Thank you for sharing these, Gizmo. I'm a huge fan of written sci-fi and spent a happy bit of time reading these, and the prequals, thinking about them a bit, and re-reading a couple of times.

Whereas that would be the last day somebody worked in my industry. We simply don't allow vehicle movements without banksmen.

Thank you for sharing this, Gizmo - thoroughly enjoyed the video Definitely! Quite apart from the visceral impact of live drums, a video never truly captures the performative aspects - just how the drummers move, communicate and knit the sound together. Although a different style and...

Hah, ATi fglrx drivers, pre-takeover! They didn't improve. I used Armagetron as a sanity test, as sometimes glxgears would work but games wouldn't. Its predecessor, Blackbox, yes. Hours of fiddling with config files only to discover that the beautiful desktop that resulted was completely...

Good going - I pretty much play all games via Steam, in large part because I rarely get time to play games at all, and Steam makes it easy. I'm still playing through The New Order, though can concur that Old Blood works happily, too. All that being said, Zombie Army Trilogy is funnier!

I have indeed tried Mint - it's good for toothpaste and mojitos, and to add a little interest to a salad. As a Linux distribution, though, I've always found it a little bit underwhelming.

I figured you'd have a backup - the more it ages, the harder it'll be to restore to the point it's just not worth the effort anymore, though. I suspect it's already well past that point, hence, "lost."

Well it had many loving mothers and fathers over the years. All early desktops were fugly, but all infinitely customisable in ways that Windows couldn't be - not least because you could choose the window manager to begin with. Both KDE and Gnome (and xfce and lxde and Enlightenment and a few...

Aw D~, at the turn of the millennium, nothing computer related was beautiful. Computers were beige boxes, screens were flickery CRTs with enough UV output to damage eyesight, and all desktops - be they Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Mac OS9, and Unix's CDE, as well as outliers like Amiga Workbench...

The thing that struck me with installing RH6.2 was both how new everything was, and how sophisticated it had already become. Although the Linux kernel itself was only 9 years in development, Gnome and KDE were even newer at 3 and 4 years old, respectively. If you had supported hardware and...

One advantage of a little bit of absence is it lets me see things from a fresh perspective. As I'm looking back at old threads here and elsewhere (and remembering a few from forums now shut down), I'd just like to take a moment to point out how bloody good Linux desktops are in 2025. That's not...