linux users

smcb

have just switched to linux, having a bit of bother installing boylepoker. does anyone else use it and have they had any trouble with poker clients? any help would be much appreciated, cheers

The_Daddy_H

I'd be interested to hear if anybody got any poker client to work with linux. I could only ever get web based java applet versions of sites to function.

saltie

The_Daddy_H wrote: »

I'd be interested to hear if anybody got any poker client to work with linux. I could only ever get web based java applet versions of sites to function.

likewise. Stopping me moving to linux for good, well that and ONE client in work

Onsberg

I was running Ubuntu on my laptop a while ago and I got some poker clients running via WINE. I haven't tried the client you are mentioning, but try and run it through WINE. You might event be able to find help for that specific client in their forums. Good luck.

http://www.winehq.org/

http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?bIsQueue=false&bIsRejected=false&sClass=application&sReturnToTitle=Browse%20Applications&sTitle=Browse+Applications&iItemsPerPage=25&iPage=3&iappFamily-appNameOp0=2&sappFamily-appNameData0=poker<br%20/>&sOrderBy=appName&bAscending=true&iItemsPerPage=25&iPage=1

Whyno

Excuse my stupidity whats Linux???

Onsberg

Whyno wrote: »

Excuse my stupidity whats Linux???

Wikipedia is your friend: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux

fatguy

Whyno wrote: »

Excuse my stupidity whats Linux???

It's an open source operating system. It turns out that Microsoft Windows not equals computers. Shocking, I know.

kennyrsb

i had a linux about a year ago and had terrible trouble trying to get the clients to work using WINE, tbh its not worth the hassle because even when you do get them up and running their quite slow which tilted me and i ended up just buying another laptop, if your going to be playing regularly online then just buy another cheap laptop :eek:

aidanf

I think the best approach is to install and run windows in a virtual machine using virtualbox. http://www.virtualbox.org/

smcb

cheers for the help. think my best bet is transferring everything to ppp and using their instant play

Fremen

Don't bother running poker clients under Wine. If you happen to have a win XP registration key lying around (like the one you'd find on the bottom of a Dell laptop) you can just download Virtualbox and run XP as a virtual machine on ubuntu. Basically, a virtual machine is a program which thinks it's a computer, and runs its own OS.

It works like a charm with win XP, though I haven't tried Vista. As far as I know, the Vista license prohibits it. You can't play games with fancy graphics, but you can run the simple apps like Word or Pokertracker. If anyone tries this, feel free to PM me if you have any trouble.

Here's a screenshot of my ubuntu desktop, got some poker software and some random Ubuntu apps running:

(hi res)
http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/964/15756574.png