Hello, trying to help KukY with his new map...

[sg1efc]

I also wonder if there are any performance differences between WZ2100's native build, and when running the Windows build under WINE. Is there any overhead when using WINE? Is the native build optimized for the particular machine it was compiled for?

Years ago there were reports of Counterstrike or something running faster under Wine than under Windows on the same system, since Linux managed the hardware better.

The Windows build has some generic optimizations, Linux by default has none iirc, you have to enable those manually.

Not that I am an Ubuntu expert.... far from it, LoL, but it does seem to reason that since I do not have to run a software firewall and antivirus program in Ubuntu, that would free up some resources such as RAM memory.

Yes, that is all true. And I never questioned the activeness of the Ubuntu staff. I was wondering about the Ubuntu community, who are responsible for maintaining theUniverse and the Multiverse repositories, as well as the PPAs (the backports that you mentioned).

The latest Warzone2100 is however available in PPA but only for Ubuntu 10.10 , and as experimental. And this is the community work.

Debian has the same policy, but since practically no one runs released/stable versions of Debian on the desktop, it's not a big deal.

Interestingly, the maintainer of the PPA is the Debian Games Group.
I wonder if this is the work of someone in the WZ project staff.

My best friend used to be a coder of Ubuntu and recommended Ubuntu to me. Mentioned that he and some other coders decided to leave Ubuntu development because of the way some people wanted the development path to head = start charging money for support and so on. Since that happened, Ubuntu development has dropped behind compared to the other Linux distributions, an example he told me is that Ubuntu still has sound problems that the other distributions have solved a while ago.

So he recommended I try Fedora. Installed it but I guess I somehow screwed that up also, lmao, couldn't figure out where the Add Drivers area was - didn't seem like all the usual options were in my install. Anyway, I'll give it a shot again, especially since I know now that Fedora has newer versions of WZ2100 out in packages.

Thanks everyone for all this info.

[JDW]

Not that I am an Ubuntu expert.... far from it, LoL, but it does seem to reason that since I do not have to run a software firewall and antivirus program in Ubuntu, that would free up some resources such as RAM memory.

True, but more importantly fewer background processes means fewer programs requiring CPU cycles. However, these differences almost go unnoticed with more powerful CPUs and GPUs.

Since that happened, Ubuntu development has dropped behind compared to the other Linux distributions, an example he told me is that Ubuntu still has sound problems that the other distributions have solved a while ago.

Well, not exactly, everyone is still experimenting with different architectures. It's really pretty messy for everyone. The day every distribution adopts the same sound architecture is the day you can say that at least the best working solution has been found.

[sg1efc]

True, but more importantly fewer background processes means fewer programs requiring CPU cycles. However, these differences almost go unnoticed with more powerful CPUs and GPUs.


Well, not exactly, everyone is still experimenting with different architectures. It's really pretty messy for everyone. The day every distribution adopts the same sound architecture is the day you can say that at least the best working solution has been found.

Very interesting.