Re: What kind of video card do you have

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From: Graeme
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 05:39

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On Wed, 09 Nov 2005 18:16:30 -0600, ScratchMonkey wrote:

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> It should be quite straightforward to take Id's Linux builds for various 
> games and build a dedicated console, perhaps for use in cafes or on 
> airplanes. You could boot them from CDROM, so they reset to ground zero 
> when the customer is done with them. Try doing that with Windows. (Yeah, 
> you can use PE Builder, but MS doesn't like that.)

The Gentoo live games cd did that - on the client side. They got legally
whacked.

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