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World of Warcraft on Linux Part 2: Ubuntu and The Burning Crusade.

Saturday, December 22nd, 2007

With Ubuntu running, installing World of Warcraft and the Burning Crusade is a piece of cake. From a terminal: glxinfo | grep rendering resulted in: direct rendering: No <– this needs to become a yes for WoW to run. So Under system –> administration –> Software sources –> Ubuntu software I checked all of the […]

World of Warcraft on Linux Part 1: Hardware.

Saturday, December 15th, 2007

Here is the list of hardware that I used to run World of Warcraft, Burning Crusade (WOW) on Ubuntu Linux 7.10 (desktop.) While this system is low on the hardware it runs WOW quite nicely at 1024×768 with 40 fps. 1) 512 megs of Kingston ddr333 memory. Yep, it is less that the minimum requirement […]