[glug-t] Re: Custom distro..

There are two major problems in Linux for which I still need to use M$:
1. Redhat, for some reason does not bundle modem drivers with the distro nor
could I find any on the net. I just couldn't connect to the net in Linux
using dial-up, which you will agree is a very severe setback

2. Please make sure the games can be run in multiplayer mode also, otherwise
it won't be of much use. In CS, I have been able to host servers and play
multiplayer, but I cannot see other servers. Similarly, I can chat but can't
see others' chat! The link is sort of one way. Even apart from that, there
is a lot of tweaking to be done if the games are to be run as well as they
do in M$.

I would be better if we were to address these issues in our distro.

P.S: I don't like this freelist thingy... let's find a forum.

On 12/15/06, Sahil Ahuja <sahilahuja@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> About our custom distro thing, these are just a few thoughts about how
> to add and what to add to our custom distro.. (btw, we also need a
> name for this distro)
>
> This discussion is a bit Fedora specific...
>
> The two important things we need is multimedia and games.
> First multimedia :
> This can easily be achieved by bundling the rpms that we get with
> fedora extras with our distro and making them selected by default.
> This can be done by editing the comps.xml file, the same way we have
> done for yum in Garnet-Zircon lan. Btw even during FC6 installation
> yum is used the back end so the technique should be same.
>
> Then games :
> The two practical games in the spotlight are counter-strike and quake3
> Counter Strike : We need to include the wine rpms by default for this.
> Then all we have to do is run a simple cp command after the
> installation at the firstboot configuration time. Or we could have a
> custom script that does that and we can ask the user to execute that
> after the installation.
>
> Quake 3 : We need to install graphic drivers for this if the user has
> a graphic card. The problem with graphic drivers is that we don't know
> which graphic card he has.
> What we could do is dmesg | grep nvidia (or ati) and we get a result
> (that means the user has a nvidia or ati graphic card) we can proceed
> to install the rpms needed for nvidia drivers (all this in the
> firstboot of course). The problem with this is not all nvidia cards
> are supported by the latest nvidia drivers. Some cards are in nvidia
> legacy. So we will need to test what cards are in legacy and what are
> not and then proceed to install the drivers.
> After that the normal method : cp the game files and run a quake3.rpm
>
> Continue this thread for further discussion....
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