Might get Linux

[Macha]

Another question, Is the civ4 on Linux.


And is there drivers for wireless usb adapters?

 

[Genocidicbunny]

For civ 4 on linux, you can use Wine or Cedega ( Wine is free, but I think Cedega has better support for civ 4)

As for wireless drivers, thats an area where linux lacks, but thats as much as I know. Look ont he forums for your specific distro for more info.

 

[Chairman Meow]

I doubt Civ4 would work in Wine. I've yet to get Civ3 to work in Wine. I have gotten Civ3 to work in VMWare Server, though, so you might want to give that a try.

 

[bgast1]

That's the one thing that I don't like about Linux. Gaming support. What good games are there right now that are Linux native?

Since I am still a newbie when it comes to Linux. Rather than do a fresh install every time I want to try another distro. How can I install other distros alongside each other? For instance, I have finally settled on PCLOS, but want to give Mandriva 2008 a whirl. How do I do this? I have already decided that Ubuntu is not for me, although the support for it is very good. It also found all of my hardware right out of the box and only required minimal tweaking. So it is highly recommended if you want to try Linux for the first time.

 

[Strider]

That's the one thing that I don't like about Linux. Gaming support. What good games are there right now that are Linux native?

Since I am still a newbie when it comes to Linux. Rather than do a fresh install every time I want to try another distro. How can I install other distros alongside each other? For instance, I have finally settled on PCLOS, but want to give Mandriva 2008 a whirl. How do I do this? I have already decided that Ubuntu is not for me, although the support for it is very good. It also found all of my hardware right out of the box and only required minimal tweaking. So it is highly recommended if you want to try Linux for the first time.

Install either OS into different Partitions. When the computer boots up it will then ask you what OS you wish to boot into. (Called a dual boot)

 

[Padma]

You may need to manually edit your grub menu.lst (?) file to have it recognize (all) the other distro(s). (I'm not at my computer, and I don't recall the file name off the top of my head.)

I know of people who have had as many as a hundred OSes on their system, managed by one instance of grub.

 

[GenMarshall]

I found this to be more helpful

How to dual-boot XP and Linux
(with XP installed first)

Not sure if this would be applicable towards other Linux distros such as PCLinuxOS, Linspire, etc.

 

[GVBN]

Install the other distro's root on a empty partition. Swap, /home and /boot partitions can be shared by both distros. Skip all the bootloader parts of the installation and then manually configure grub

 

[Padma]

I agree with GVBN on everything except /home. In my experience, different distros assign users to different blocks of IDs. For instance, in Mandriva and PCLOS, the first user is ID 500. In Suse, it is ID 1000. Since permissions are assigned based on ID#, not on name, it means a specific user may not be able to even see his home directory!

Another problem I've seen is that not all distros use the same versions of desktops. For instance, one might have KDE 3.5, another might still be using KDE 3.3. There are often significant changes to the initialization files that can screw you up if you use the "wrong" version.

My suggestion would be to keep the /home directories exclusive to each distro. If you need to share data, make a separate "Data" partition, and make it world-read/write, if necessary.

 

[bgast1]

I've decided to keep PCLOS for now. It works, it ain't broke, so it doesn't need fixin', and if I were going to mess around with partitions on my hard disk, it might just be easier to install whatever distro I want to look at, and revert back if I don't like it. All of my important data is on a separate hard disk anyway. I was just looking for a very simple way out. I am also not too confident about editing GRUB because if I screw that up, then there goes everything anyway. I think I can just fix the mbr of my Windows installation, but I'd rather not screw up that badly.

 

[GenMarshall]

As for wireless drivers, thats an area where linux lacks, but thats as much as I know.

So that also includes built in wireless cards in laptops?

Now I gotta check to see if the following Distros can support a wireless card built into a laptop:
PCLinuxOS
Ubuntu
Kubuntu
Linspire

 

[Strider]

So that also includes built in wireless cards in laptops?

Now I gotta check to see if the following Distros can support a wireless card built into a laptop:
PCLinuxOS
Ubuntu
Kubuntu
Linspire

Kubuntu and Ubuntu share the same packages. So it's fairly certain that whatever one supports the other will also.