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#1 on Gamespot's brainiac list in Galactic Civilizations II GalCiv2 Forums

Title says it all Furthermore, it's also great news that an indie-published game made it so big.

Reply to Linux: Why you should care - Part 1 in OS Wars Stardock Forums

#19: "As for the omg windoze is evil angle... meh. It's the mouth-foaming penguin humpers out there who make Linux the scary thing it is." Non sequitur. It doesn't follow. The fact that I'm overzealous does not make Microsoft any less evil. Again, let me give you a couple of examples: 1. Using their existing monopoly to produce other monopolies. In the past, it happened with office, through illegal bundling. Currently - with

Reply to Linux: Why you should care - Part 1 in OS Wars Stardock Forums

One thing that wasn't really mentioned is stability. On my work computer (a dual dell powerstaion bought in 2002), twice I got uptimes of > 200 days (and I could have gotten more, if I also had an UPS) It's true that getting your hardware to work with Linux can sometimes be a big pain. Testing an OS on a variety of hardware configurations is extremely time- and money- consuming. I once read an interview with Mandrake senior, who was saying tha

Reply to OS Advocates - they never change in OS Wars Stardock Forums

Hi all, I'm a Linux power user. It's been my main development platform since 1998. I've been drawn to it by ... Windows 98. It's one thing to have a crash in the middle of a Quake game, and a completely different one while you're coding stuff. As a development platform, Linux beats Windows by far. Most default installs have the majority of the tools a coder needs. I, personally, use a couple of extra tools that are somewhat exotic (e.g. jedit