Windows games in Linux
Gamers like to be able to play all their games and get right to gaming instead of messing with configurations. Even if their games were available for Linux, switching to Linux seemed like a bad choice until recently, as only a very small amount of commercial games have official Linux-support. Even though getting the not officially Linux-supported games to run by other means, it would be far from easy. Sure, for Linux there’s free games like Frozen Bubble, Tux Racer, FreeCiv etc., but the big commercial titles are rarely released for Linux.
The company TransGaming Technologies tries to fill out this need for commercial Windows-games by having created an application called Cedega, which makes it possible to play such games without official Linux-support regardless.
There’s a lot of controversy in the free-software community though. Cedega is based on an old version of Wine (a project aimed at making Windows-applications run on Linux) from when Wine it was still under the MIT License, which meant that anybody could take what they wanted from the project without contributing the changes back to the original authors. Because of this, this (fully legal) ‘theft’, the Wine-project choose to release future versions under the LGPL, which does not permit changing the code without releasing the source-code. Cedega can therefore no longer tailor newer versions of Wine to suit their needs, as the project is mostly closed-source.
Another point against Cedega is the principle that Linux shouldn’t run Windows-games in the first place, the authors should write the games for Linux.
Cedega has added many unique features not found in Wine, like compatibility with most modern copy-protections and a Games Disc Database in which profiles optimized for each of the games in the database are available, as well as a GUI for managing installed games.
Cedega costs only $5 month, but you have to sign up for at least 3 months, yet trying it out is not a budget-killer - you can always cancel your subscription.
Full story:
http://friendlylinux.org/2007/01/28/windows-games-in-linux/
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