Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751058AbXAIGMK (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Jan 2007 01:12:10 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751084AbXAIGMK (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Jan 2007 01:12:10 -0500 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:56144 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751058AbXAIGMJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Jan 2007 01:12:09 -0500 X-Authenticated: #9872103 Message-ID: <45A34146.3000709@gmx.net> Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 08:16:22 +0100 From: Dirk User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2pre) Gecko/20070107 SeaMonkey/1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Adrian Bunk CC: Helge Hafting , Jay Vaughan , Trent Waddington , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Gaming Interface References: <45A22D69.3010905@gmx.net> <3d57814d0701080243n745fcddg8eaace0093e88a38@mail.gmail.com> <45A2356B.5050208@gmx.net> <45A24176.9080107@gmx.net> <45A2509F.3000901@aitel.hist.no> <45A264E1.3080603@gmx.net> <20070108195714.GA6167@stusta.de> In-Reply-To: <20070108195714.GA6167@stusta.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1914 Lines: 53 Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 04:36:01PM +0100, Dirk wrote: >> Helge Hafting wrote: >> ... >>> Either _you_ code your game interface yourself, or you fund >>> some developers to do it for you. It is that simple. You can >>> of course come here and ask advice about how to do it >>> and what parts will be accepted into the kernel and what parts >>> must stay outside it. >>> >>> This is not the place to post an idea and then expect someone >>> to actually program it. This is the place where you may discuss >>> an idea, and then find out if Linus might accept your patch - or not! >>> >>> Helge Hafting >> Alright. I came to discuss an idea I had > > Open source does not work by telling about some seemingly good idea you > had and expecting other people to implement your idea. > > Open source works by you implementing your idea. > > Try it yourself, and you will see the technical problems of your idea > (e.g. porting userrspace code to the stack-limited kernel or crashing > the whole computer with bugs in the libraries) yourself. > >> because I realized that >> installing Windows and running Linux in VMware is the only _fun_ way to >> play "real" Games and have Linux at the same time. >> >> And everyone who says I'm a troll doesn't like Games or simple things. > > You talk as if you knew everything about games on Windows, but you seem > to not even have heard of Wine or Cedega? I tried to get WoW installed with Cedega 5.2.9 for two days now. Cedega is not a replacement for ports. And it does not encourage ports. > > Please do your homework before spreading wild guessings and ideas. > Please don't do this... Dirk - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/