ut3 linux poll

[xav1r]

Didnt you say a few posts ago that you would mod the xbox360 so that it serves a completely different purpose? This is more or less like that too!

[Svartalf]

Well, of course SCEA isnt an altruistic company as opposed to the loathsome M$, just take the results of these companies' efforts in beating the competition and modify them. Which brings me to a cool idea. What if we all buy a ps3 to play ut3 on it? Then install linux on the ps3 and run the ut3 ps3 mod tools on it with wine, to create mods for ut3? I guess thats the closest thing to ut3 on the linux platform so far.

You know... If it's not on Linux, it's just not worth all of that. Seriously. You're jumping through flaming hoops, buying a title for a different platform from the one you WANTED it to run on from someone that had a serious release date slip on you.

If they ship here soon, I'll buy. Otherwise, it's just not worth all of that to me.

[xav1r]

Indeed. I am, however, a bit ambivalent in that regard due to their parent's other division doing the Rootkit fiasco- yes, I know that SCEA didn't do it, but BMC IS Sony afterall. Something that narfy only comes from high-up within the company and they didn't have heads that rolled when it came out that they'd done this- first they wembled and tried to cover up the fact that they'd done this deed (and did it with someone else's software in the mix to boot, committing the very thing that they were allegedly trying to prevent, an infringement...) and then when they owned up to it, they had to be taken to court to be forced to stop doing it and to properly fix the machines they'd messed up.

Well, of course SCEA isnt an altruistic company as opposed to the loathsome M$, just take the results of these companies' efforts in beating the competition and modify them. Which brings me to a cool idea. What if we all buy a ps3 to play ut3 on it? Then install linux on the ps3 and run the ut3 ps3 mod tools on it with wine, to create mods for ut3? I guess thats the closest thing to ut3 on the linux platform so far.

[Svartalf]

Well, I hadn't really taken failure into account. This is what I want to do, and I have enough drive, and determination that it's what I will make happen for my life.
Besides the fact that with the 75k I'll be dumping into it, I'd better get something from it...

Heh... There IS a reason we were suggesting a slightly (in our opinion) better use of the $75k in the form of a slightly more general degree that'd help you accomplish a bit more if things went sideways on you for any reason.

It's not that it's a bad choice. It leaves less room for error.

[me262]

I'm guessing it's because this thread isn't a thread. It's a poll.
The minor fact that UT3 is on the PS3 prior to Linux not prevailing...

You could just do what I did. Buy a PS3 with a bad disc drive for 100 bucks and replace the laser assembly yourself... there's quite a few youtube videos out there that disassemble the thing

You've got to hand it though, a cheap 733 processor for 60 bucks from Gamestop, you can buy 4 of them for 240, and it would make for a decent distcc cluster, or just something specialized for different purposes... Yeah. it's not as good an idea than I originally thought, when you can get a 64-bit dual-core system for less than the cost of 4 of those machines. Best to do a PS3 for 100 (provided it can still read CD-ROMs, like mine did before I installed a new assembly).

Well, I hadn't really taken failure into account. This is what I want to do, and I have enough drive, and determination that it's what I will make happen for my life.
Besides the fact that with the 75k I'll be dumping into it, I'd better get something from it...

[RobbieAB]

Why are people so obsessed with muttering about how off topic threads get?

[deanjo]

This thread is sooooooooooooooooooooo off topic

[Svartalf]

More reason to buy a ps3 then. you can even install linux natively, with no hacks.

Indeed. I am, however, a bit ambivalent in that regard due to their parent's other division doing the Rootkit fiasco- yes, I know that SCEA didn't do it, but BMC IS Sony afterall. Something that narfy only comes from high-up within the company and they didn't have heads that rolled when it came out that they'd done this- first they wembled and tried to cover up the fact that they'd done this deed (and did it with someone else's software in the mix to boot, committing the very thing that they were allegedly trying to prevent, an infringement...) and then when they owned up to it, they had to be taken to court to be forced to stop doing it and to properly fix the machines they'd messed up.

[Svartalf]

Ah, but if you were given it, the MS vote already has been sent, so why not subvert the hardware?

Well, I DID say if someone HANDED me one, I'd corrupt the thing completely from it's original purpose...

[xav1r]

The answer would be "yes"- but like buying Windows titles contributes to making more Windows titles...

A purchase of any X-Box product translates into more money in MS' pockets to do the things we don't like to us and sends a vote that you WANT that sort of thing.

Even buying an X-Box to put Linux on it is counterproductive.

More reason to buy a ps3 then. you can even install linux natively, with no hacks.