[luau] Powering Off a Linux Machine

[Hawaii Linux Institute]

Thanks for pointing out my inadvertent error.  I meant to say 
--perception-- not "experience", i.e., the sentence should read: (due to 
the recent rapid progress) most of our past "perception" about Linux 
desktops has become largely irrelevent.

On the gaming issue.  The biggest obstacle actually is that hardware 
vendors were not cooperating.  With Athlon64, it may develop such that 
the most powerful, most "baddest" games will run only on the Athlon64 
platform.  While Microsoft has pledged support for the x86-64 
architecture, Linux is already here.  Based on my recent though still 
very limited encounter with VIA, which is still the largest chipset 
maker in the world, hardware makers have begun to recognize the perils 
of ignoring Linux.  If only one or two killer Athlon64/Linux-specific 
games can be developed, it will not take long for the gamers to move to 
the Linux platform en masse--at least so we all hope.

xxd wrote:

>On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 08:47:48 -1000
>Hawaii Linux Institute <wp at HawaiiLinux.us> wrote:
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>>Linux desktops have made so much progress this year, we should realize 
>>that most of our past experience has become largely irrelevant.  ...
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>Very true.  However, having a good solid base knowledge of Linux/Unix skills will help people go far.  (underneath it is still the good old reliable system people have come to love.)  A little nicer eye candy never hurt anyone.
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