Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 27th Jul 2007 22:57 UTC
Mark Shuttleworth has announced that Dell will expand its Linux offerings. "What's been announced to date is not the full extent of what we will see over the next couple of weeks and months," Shuttleworth said an interview late on Wednesday. "There are additional offerings in the pipeline," he said. Shuttleworth founded Canonical to provide support for Ubuntu Linux. A Dell spokeswoman, Anne Camden, declined comment, saying the company does not discuss products in the pipeline.
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Which leads me and my tin-foil to believe that some well known company from Redmond Washington may have put some pressure on Blizzard not to release the most anticipated MMORPG ever on a competing platform.
While this is not impossible there has been a slightly different hint from a German game publisher (he didn't say it was about WoW because he was under NDA, but it was pretty obvious nonetheless)
He said that they got contacted by this must-not-be-named game company about distribution of a new game on Linux, but they requested some guarantees the publisher could not handle (e.g. something like expect to sell at least 100000 units)
Perhaps this initial plan to sell a Linux client is one of the reasons they "support" playing it through Wine/Cedega.
Would be nice to have the real client though.
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WoW runs like a charm through wine. I know, cause i run it all the time!
It's not as fast as on Windows, but it does the trick. And on more recent hardware you shouldn't even feel a performance hit. I even think that, out of the box and using the default setting on both systems, WoW has crispier colors when you run it through wine (what doesn't? >:> ).
But still, I reckon that running anything through a compatibility layer is never the best solution. This game in particular had a native Linux version in development and Blizzard released a few betas of the Linux client but then they sacked the whole project all together. Which leads me and my tin-foil to believe that some well known company from Redmond Washington may have put some pressure on Blizzard not to release the most anticipated MMORPG ever on a competing platform. After all, it wouldn't be the first time Microsoft employs scare tactics to prevent another company from investing in the competition (BeOS, anyone?).
To this day, you can edit a file on your WoW installation and make the the game run through the good old cross platform OpenGL back end, even on Windows.
Edited 2007-07-28 02:03