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To: JC Jaros who wrote (1715)	8/19/1999 11:43:00 PM
From: Rusty Johnson	Respond to of 2617

Linux Gamesters boston.com But Draeker said Linux is spreading beyond corporate server machines and onto home desktops, in place of Microsoft's Windows 95 or Windows 98 software. He cited a report from Corel Corp. that a million people have downloaded the Linux version of Corel's WordPerfect word processing software. 'They're not running that on a server,' Draeker said. Loki is working on Linux versions of eight more games and is constantly looking for new products to port to Linux. Draeker said most game software makers are quite interested in working with his company - with one major exception: Microsoft. 'I approached their booth at E3 [a leading electronic-industry trade show] and asked them about porting Age of Empires,' one of Microsoft's most popular games. The response? 'I got a belly laugh,' said Draeker.

To: JC Jaros who wrote (1715)	8/21/1999 12:33:00 AM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 2617

I hate to be critical of such enthusiasm but the article was mainly salestalk. "X is this, X is that" and no explanation of the how and why. We know what X was intended to do and how it was first amongst the graphical extended systems but it is tres old and much optimization and many modern features and capabilities have been passed by in favour of the vaunted "felxibility" and universality. These qualities need not have sacrificed the system's smallness and speed in the way that they have. We still have to address unecessarily complex code, bugginess, conflicts, poor graphic controls, high bandwidth and a lack of features. X was written by the big three for their obsolete boxes of yesteryear in order to save development money. While it has some good ideas it is possible to configure these same ideas in a better, faster and lower bandwidth system that eliminates code complexity, conflicts and vastly improves the architecture, extensibility and performance/usability of the interface. X is customizable? By whom? How? Not easily. Not by a long shot. Unless you have a degree in complex hairtairing and code kluging from the University of Lost Causes and General Insanity. EC<:-}