UO on linux
UO on linux
I was wondering if anyone is playing on a linux distro. I'm about to wipe windows clean. I've always had a liking to linux. I'm thinking of using pinguy os 12.04 to get me started. Hopefully someone is and like to talk about it before I make the move. I want to keep playing.
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I'm playing under Wine / Ubuntu 11.10 and 12.04, and having no problems.
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Good to here. Razor working ok? I may make the leap later next week.
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Ive got uo running under wine on ubuntu 12.04 I have a few little issues but for the most part razor and uo runs fine
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Good to see some linux users. As I will be researching pinguy os and marjaro (arch base). If you haven't read, Steam is now gonna be releasing more games in linux format. So all you linux user get ready for more games. You can now start saying good by to windows 
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EnigmaMaitreya
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I did the UO and Everquest pn Linux a long time ago. At that time WineHQ was good enough to run UO but not Everquest.
Mostly for UO it was getting the Microsoft Components in place and the Wine setting correct. It was far easier to get UO running from an installed copy than it was to get it to install correctly ... at that time
I did find this company and product able to run both UO and Everquest at that time with no issues at all
http://www.cedegawiki.net/Welcome_to_th ... Linux_Wiki
At that time cedega (it had a different name then) was not as broad ranging as it seems to be now, but I also do not see any reasons why (and no I did not look into it) they cant do it now. There were 3 other companies doing basicaly the same thing at that time. I just saw a blurb within the last 90 days were one of them was allowing a free download and install on that day only.
*Shrug* Me, I just use vmware workstation (paid) but VMWare Player (free) does all the important things that workstation does.
VMWare Player is NOT just a player, it will allow you to create a Virtual Machine and install an OS on it. Operating Systems being Linux, FreeBDS, all Windows version and a few others.
One might ask WHY? Well, One model may be to create a Windows XP VM, put UO on it and NOTHING ELSE. Allocate maybe 2G of Memory and maybe 32GB of disk. Now then you can play the UO/RunUO on that system and any changes to your other Operating System (Host or other Clients) have no affect on the UO VM. The largest resource on the Host System is mostly just disk space.
On a MultuCore CPU, 4GB will allow One Windows XP as defined above and the Host for all other things to work with almost no noticable impact on either. Meaning both can be running concurrently.
QuadCore 8GB can easily run Host+2 Clients
QuadCore 16GB can easily run Host+4 Clients - This is my setup currently (will upgrade to 32GB ram in 2013) and I can have Host + 5 Clients running with no noticable impact.
This makes running multiple Game Clients on one Computer very simple and to switch between VM's is very simple.
Mostly for UO it was getting the Microsoft Components in place and the Wine setting correct. It was far easier to get UO running from an installed copy than it was to get it to install correctly ... at that time
I did find this company and product able to run both UO and Everquest at that time with no issues at all
http://www.cedegawiki.net/Welcome_to_th ... Linux_Wiki
At that time cedega (it had a different name then) was not as broad ranging as it seems to be now, but I also do not see any reasons why (and no I did not look into it) they cant do it now. There were 3 other companies doing basicaly the same thing at that time. I just saw a blurb within the last 90 days were one of them was allowing a free download and install on that day only.
*Shrug* Me, I just use vmware workstation (paid) but VMWare Player (free) does all the important things that workstation does.
VMWare Player is NOT just a player, it will allow you to create a Virtual Machine and install an OS on it. Operating Systems being Linux, FreeBDS, all Windows version and a few others.
One might ask WHY? Well, One model may be to create a Windows XP VM, put UO on it and NOTHING ELSE. Allocate maybe 2G of Memory and maybe 32GB of disk. Now then you can play the UO/RunUO on that system and any changes to your other Operating System (Host or other Clients) have no affect on the UO VM. The largest resource on the Host System is mostly just disk space.
On a MultuCore CPU, 4GB will allow One Windows XP as defined above and the Host for all other things to work with almost no noticable impact on either. Meaning both can be running concurrently.
QuadCore 8GB can easily run Host+2 Clients
QuadCore 16GB can easily run Host+4 Clients - This is my setup currently (will upgrade to 32GB ram in 2013) and I can have Host + 5 Clients running with no noticable impact.
This makes running multiple Game Clients on one Computer very simple and to switch between VM's is very simple.
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Nice to see you doing all that. I tried all last night to find a linux distro to work on my laptop and I got nothing. I'm gonna try this out and see how it works for me. https://www.virtualbox.org/ So for now, windows 7 stays on my laptop as main OS.
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EnigmaMaitreya
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Virtual box is good also. As far as I can remember, I dont think it has the Vidio resolution that VMWare has and I think it is Linux Host Only.
And because I didnt make it clear, VMWare products run on both Windows Hosts as well as Linux Hosts
As for a Distro, I am quite happy with the Linux Mint Distro, one of the 4 VM's I run is the Linux Mint release. I need to update it to the newest release before to long. I use it to do all my web surfing. Sharing folders amongst the VM's is very easy. If you copy/cut past normal text type stuff, it is just a matter of switching to the deisred VM and pasting into it.
I am not posting any unknown thing here, if you take the VMWare Workstation free trial and run the 30 days out on it, then download the Free VM Player, you have the best more or less of both worlds, more or less. The Vm Workstation will allow you to create and edit VM. *Shrug* the only thing you can do in WorkStation, that you cant do in Player, is define advanced network interfaces that really do require a good amount of Network Interface knowledge anyway.
One thing that isnt intuitvly obvious is that should anyone gain access to a VM machine, they do not gain access to the entire computer system. It is one of the percieved advantages for me as I define a secure vm and it has extremly tight controls on access the internet and is fortified. No this Linux Mint that I am using to type this is not considered by me to be secure. I use the Linux Mint because, wrongly or rightly, I figure it is less likely to be an agent for harm to the system, not like windows.
And because I didnt make it clear, VMWare products run on both Windows Hosts as well as Linux Hosts
As for a Distro, I am quite happy with the Linux Mint Distro, one of the 4 VM's I run is the Linux Mint release. I need to update it to the newest release before to long. I use it to do all my web surfing. Sharing folders amongst the VM's is very easy. If you copy/cut past normal text type stuff, it is just a matter of switching to the deisred VM and pasting into it.
I am not posting any unknown thing here, if you take the VMWare Workstation free trial and run the 30 days out on it, then download the Free VM Player, you have the best more or less of both worlds, more or less. The Vm Workstation will allow you to create and edit VM. *Shrug* the only thing you can do in WorkStation, that you cant do in Player, is define advanced network interfaces that really do require a good amount of Network Interface knowledge anyway.
One thing that isnt intuitvly obvious is that should anyone gain access to a VM machine, they do not gain access to the entire computer system. It is one of the percieved advantages for me as I define a secure vm and it has extremly tight controls on access the internet and is fortified. No this Linux Mint that I am using to type this is not considered by me to be secure. I use the Linux Mint because, wrongly or rightly, I figure it is less likely to be an agent for harm to the system, not like windows.