Perspective of a Thinking Human Being.

I really seems so, this article takes an in depth look at this. The conclusion: "When setting out on the benchmarking for this article we had no idea that in all of the Enemy Territory: Quake Wars benchmarks, ATI Linux would steal the lead from the latest Redmond operating system. Doom 3 had also performed very well under Linux with the latest ATI driver release. Being surprised by this, we are now going to be performing a much larger cross-platform comparison with multiple ATI Radeon graphics cards and we’ll likely run the same set of tests on the NVIDIA side."

I really find this interesting, Why? Because I have always been an nVIDIA enthusiast, because they have had the best support for years on Linux, but this articles opens my perspective, as well as the choices I have now when buying a new video card. If ATI proves to be a better performer in the long run, then I’m all in, I will just stop buying nVIDIA products (I have been buying them forever) and start buying AMD/ATI products. I am a person who only use Arch Linux, so I don’t need Windows support on any of my hardware, so the product that can better deliver for Linux is the one that is going to be kept as my product of choice. I should also come to the attention, the fact that the latest nVIDIA drivers for Linux has been nothing more than bad, introducing more bugs than they fix. And, to conclude, AMD/ATI are going the open source way, nVIDIA will likely catch on too late to that quality thinking, if they ever do.

Thanks for reading and as always share your thoughts in the comments.

 The Enemy Territory: Quake Wars is awesome to see a fast release, but at the same time is not so good, because the demo was beta, and now all of a sudden it is made into final. So I think, I will only get this game if it proves to be solid on Linux.

In the other hand there is Unreal Tournament 3  which, I trust they will have a solid Linux release, they proved this with Unreal Tournament 2004 it was solid, stable. So I’m leaning to buy Unreal Tournament 3 instead of Enemy Territory: Quake Wars.

 First I will make some changes to my system Hard Drives Schemes, will do some reinstallation of the OS and will customize my kernel. This all, because, now I’m into gaming again, so I need to customize everything for better performance, stock Arch Linux is not sufficient, I will have a Gentoo Linux installation now and Arch Linux as well. Gentoo will boost my gaming experience and Arch Linux will give me the stability, without  all the hassles of maintaining Gentoo on this system, when I just need things to work.

 In others news, I got a job at Radio Shack and will be working for them till this next week, so my time will be more limited now, still I’ll make everything more organized in my life, so I can keep on with the community and keep making the Arch Linux weekly newsletters a reality. Hope you guys are enjoying them so far. Well, I’ll try and keep you all up to date to the current happenings.

The Enemy Territory: Quake Wars game has been released in a beta demo client for Linux. Phoronix gives an in-depth look at it, click the link and you’ll see it. I have been playing it since this morning and is really great. Maybe I’ll buy it if it really keeps performing great. In fact, I’m going to play it now. Bye.

 Yeah!, as the title implies, we are on plans of doing something which might/should be called, distrowars. What is so special about it? Well, we get to interact with another Linux distribution group of users who want to play an Online Multiplayer First Person Shooter. The thought behind this? Well, just pure entertainment, we get to know more Linux users and make Linux more of a /home for us since most of the people tend to see Linux as a non-gamers platform, well, thats about to change. There are many free games like Tremulous and Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, then the ones that cost money like Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, which hopefully will be released soon for Linux.

There you go everyone, suite yourself and enjoy one of those games, we’ll see you at the distrowars tournament, and make sure you represent your distro well since this will make a mark on its reputation. Nah, we are just going to have some random fun, just be sure to take your white flag with you.