Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sun 11th Aug 2002 18:43 UTC
If there are two individuals in the Linux game scene today that they brought a lot and very good Free games to all Linux users, these should be Michael Speck of LGames and Bill Kendrick of NewBreedSoftware. Their games have been played not only by Linux users, but by users on all major platforms via the portability of the SDL game library. Today, we interview Michael Speck, regarding his games, his opinions about the Linux game market, about Linux's performance as a multimedia platform, his future plans and much more.
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Well, if you dowbloaded it then SuSE never made any money from you in the first place.
Way back when, I bought SuSE 5.1-5.3 then 6.1. I hadn't looked at it again until version 8.0. I have to say, it's improved a lot over the years. After trying Mdk 8.2, SuSE 8 and RH 7.3 (and Limbo2) I'd have to recommend SuSE 8.0 for desktop use. It is seriosuly slick. It felt as together as BeOS did for me. I urge you to try it. There's now a 16MB ISO that does an FTP install if you can't afford to buy the boxed set. It's relly great. Yast2 has pretty much everything you'd need in a system management tool, and YOU (the online update tool) seemed almost as slick as Debian's apt-get. It won't be replacing Debian on my laptop yet, but it was a very strong distribution. It seemed very professional.
As for the free ISOs, I like what Libranet does. They sell the newest version but offer the previous version free to download. This way a user can get a feel for the system and decide if they want to purchase the shipping version. Maybe SuSE should give away 7.4 ISO files. Seems a good comprimise between making money and keeping people happy.
As for the article, good interview. I'd never played any of the lgames, but Debian had most of them packaged. They seem quite good.