OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/20004/One_Live_DVD_One_Ton_of_Linux_Games Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:06:38 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com good for hardware testing http://osnews.com/thread?321991 http://osnews.com/thread?321991 I'm using this and MythTV liveCD for testing my hardware before taking the time to config my host OS. It's also nice to have a game liveCD I can just through in or point people too when yet another person tells me all about how Linux based OS have no games.

I love the way anyone can build there own liveCD or distribution customized to there needs or objectives. Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:15:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (jabbotts) Comments shots of some of the games http://osnews.com/thread?322010 http://osnews.com/thread?322010 at http://www.thecodingstudio.com/opensource/linux/screenshots/index.p... Tue, 08 Jul 2008 20:53:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (lqsh) Comments Yay http://osnews.com/thread?322057 http://osnews.com/thread?322057 Every once and awhile, I like running modern Linux games, so that I can remember what it was like to run Windows in, say, 1998.Edited 2008-07-09 02:22 UTC Wed, 09 Jul 2008 02:21:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (tomcat) Comments RE: Yay http://osnews.com/thread?322064 http://osnews.com/thread?322064 Yeah, I have to say that to release a solo gaming linux distro is like saying: "Gaming is something that, as a whole, we such suck at. Ya know what? Let's release a distro with ONLY games. That way we can show how not awesome Linux is." Brilliant. Wed, 09 Jul 2008 04:23:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Alboin) Comments RE: Yay http://osnews.com/thread?322070 http://osnews.com/thread?322070 Ah, you mean like how it was back when games were good and about giving a fun experience rather than about showing off your awesome tech demos masquerading as games? Wed, 09 Jul 2008 05:35:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Soulbender) Comments RE[2]: Yay http://osnews.com/thread?322081 http://osnews.com/thread?322081 Clearly you have never tried those games, they are excellent, and are regularly updated. I notice cube2 has been updated since the release, and OpenArena has a 0.8 release in beta with the elusive.

In fact the quality of the selection shows form what has been removed from this relase and not those that have been added ufo:ai a fantastic 3D turn based stratergy, and neverball a fantastic game of skill.

Does GNU have the breadth and quality of Windows commercial gaming not yet, but clearly it has many games of good quality without the pain of CD Hacks, or cracks or patch problems windows users have, and can expect an updated release every few months. In reality console gaming has the best of both worlds, has a better platform...the TV and is more sociable.

I actually think the emphasis on this distro was not so much to emphasise that gaming is available to Linux...but a live-cd for playing with a group of friends so everyone within the "group" has a legal and working game either at work.

BTW most of those games are available on windows too I would get a copy of them they are all excellent. Wed, 09 Jul 2008 07:17:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (cyclops) Comments RE: Yay http://osnews.com/thread?322088 http://osnews.com/thread?322088 You sir, are a blatant troll. Wed, 09 Jul 2008 07:58:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (raver31) Comments RE: Yay http://osnews.com/thread?322093 http://osnews.com/thread?322093 what a wanker Wed, 09 Jul 2008 08:40:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Whats That There) Comments Didn't know this existed. http://osnews.com/thread?322152 http://osnews.com/thread?322152 I didn't even know there were this many games for Linux.

The only ones I've played are Tremulous (good fun) and Wesnoth.

I'll check it out when I have time.

Don't think I'll abandon my PS3, DS and Wii, though. Wed, 09 Jul 2008 15:57:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (gan17) Comments RE: Yay http://osnews.com/thread?322154 http://osnews.com/thread?322154 While often true... you can run some modernish stuff like Quake 4 etc. I just don't see a gi-normous amount of high quality, modern (graphics) open source games. You can usually get any 2 of the above, but not usually all 3.

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(I said usually, so don't get bent) Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:16:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Bounty) Comments Thanks for the news http://osnews.com/thread?322156 http://osnews.com/thread?322156 Thanks for the news, I always like hearing about this kind of stuff... gamming progress in linux etc. Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:19:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Bounty) Comments RE: Yay http://osnews.com/thread?322213 http://osnews.com/thread?322213
Every once and awhile, I like running modern Linux games, so that I can remember what it was like to run Windows in, say, 1998.


you can do that by running Vista ;) Wed, 09 Jul 2008 21:43:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (cyclops) Comments RE[3]: Yay http://osnews.com/thread?322255 http://osnews.com/thread?322255
Clearly you have never tried those games, they are excellent, and are regularly updated. I notice cube2 has been updated since the release, and OpenArena has a 0.8 release in beta with the elusive.
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BTW most of those games are available on windows too I would get a copy of them they are all excellent.


While OpenArena, which I downloaded earlier, is fun, it has a lot of work to be done. I couldn't care less about the blocky characters but trying to do simple things like set an appropriate resolution don't work well. Perhaps, they should have spent less time copying the Quake 3 displays. As I said, it is fun to play.

Personally, I'd rather play Burger Space. Neverball is well made but frustrating. Thu, 10 Jul 2008 03:04:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (bousozoku) Comments