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- Vadi0, on 09/28/2008, -6/+32Not the best selection of games... and I see very little common use for this.
I, for one, won't be rebooting to play a game when I can simply install it and not reboot. - themusicalduck, on 09/28/2008, -0/+22I imagine this would be good for someone who wants to play a game but doesn't use Linux/computers much.. ie, kids.
Imagine having a disc that you could just put into your computer, boot it up and play straight off, like using a console. Great for young kids who are used to using an xbox or playstation or whatever.
Easy free present to get for a nephew or something.. no one needn't know if you make a decent label for it. ;) - apophenic, on 09/29/2008, -5/+25lol, top linux games
- piznut, on 09/29/2008, -9/+28Linux is a great gaming platform**!
**If your reference for great games is early 90s shareware knockoffs of popular games. - Nouman6, on 09/29/2008, -1/+12I won't lie, Nexuiz looks pretty cool from the sceenshots. Being free is just an added +
- Disease, on 09/29/2008, -0/+11It's a pretty fun Quake/Unreal style game. Fast paced and violent without any real purpose other than being fast paced and violent, just like the good ol' days.
- inactive, on 09/29/2008, -0/+9Like a console...
amirite? - LexMortis, on 09/29/2008, -6/+15I've recently tried this as I got a new gaming laptop, for all who say/think a gaming laptop is an oxymoron: I can run COD4 @ 1440x900 with plenty of details etc, it looks great and runs smooth.
I expected that the creators of this "gaming live cd" would make sure that all devices would be supported, so that it would be free of any drivers hassle and thus be truly "boot & play". Boy was I wrong... I didn't have sound, no 3d hardware rendering, no wifi, resolution was low, half the games didnt work, other half was *****.
I'm sorry but if this is really "some of the top linux games out there" then it's laughable at best. I'll probably be buried by linux zealots, but face it... linux isn't for gaming. Period. - xptweakerntn, on 09/29/2008, -1/+8It appears to me that a game or two on there isn't open-source or freeware. Interesting concept right there. Since the game offers a free trial, as the Linux DVD doesn't write any config files, you essentially can use the trial forever!
But then again, this is against the Linux spirit. - wastern, on 09/29/2008, -0/+6The old live gaming disk I had required us to setup the network card before we could start network play over the lan. kind of annoying, but only took about 2 minutes after boot.
Did you try to fix any of it or just assume it would never work - willdawiz, on 09/29/2008, -0/+6To be honest, this may be exactly what I'm looking for. The computer club at my school used to do lan games, but they didn't want us to play with the hard drives, so we stopped. I've been working with damn small linux on a thumb drive as a work around, but it wasn't the easiest thing to do. Hopefully this can bring no-consequence lan parties to my school!
- Lane, on 09/28/2008, -0/+6Interesting concept, you could have this running as a minimal os with just the bare necessities leaving you with a very responsive machine.
- wastern, on 09/29/2008, -2/+7Kind of a ***** list of games, most live *nix gaming CDs have Unreal 2004 and Quake 4, those are the only things that make it worth it
- raydeen, on 09/29/2008, -0/+5If your laptop is bleeding edge, the LiveCD probably didn't have the necessary drivers. Try again in a few months.
- TheMu, on 09/29/2008, -0/+4Dugg because I like the Live CD, but the new releases have already been on Digg before.
- hartley, on 09/29/2008, -0/+4Might be nice if Im stuck out in the woods with no connection to repositories what so ever.
- a3r0, on 09/29/2008, -2/+6I tried downloading it, but I just got a 0 byte file. Any help?
- subxero37, on 09/29/2008, -0/+4Cube 2 (Sauerbraten, I believe) is actually an incredibly bad-ass engine combined with a very easy-to-use editor. In one program. I shat br-- no, cubes.
- repruhsent, on 09/29/2008, -1/+4Like others have said... if you can just download the game and install it, what's the point of rebooting into an OS dedicated to running it?
- Reziarfg, on 09/29/2008, -0/+3You assume everyone is running Linux.
- inactive, on 09/29/2008, -1/+4moron?
- NightGecko, on 09/29/2008, -0/+3I actually saw this at Linux Tag. Pretty neat in my opinion. TeeWorld is an awesome game, as well as very easy to pick up an play for any amount of time.
- TheZorch, on 09/29/2008, -0/+3This is good, thought its been on Digg before, it shows that gaming on Linux is not only possible but that games on Linux can be just as good as Windows games.
- BoneStamp, on 09/29/2008, -3/+5Linux Gaming FTW
- 2of8, on 09/29/2008, -0/+2But where you could also install a limitless range of software by putting another disc in.
Unlike a console. - raydeen, on 09/29/2008, -1/+3What if you're at work/school and can't run Linux? Great way to game without adding to or modifying someone else's machine. I used to do a similar trick with the shareware version of Doom. I made a boot diskette that made a 16 MB ram drive and then ran a batch file that extracted Doom to ram. Then I fragged to my hearts content. When I was done, I just popped out the floppy, rebooted the machine and it was back running AIX on a P90.
- marx2k, on 09/29/2008, -1/+3This one time I will tell you why Microsoft knows what sells. You also just referenced almost all of Xbox Live's gaming library available for download. Obviously, people enjoy playing those sorts of games.
- WhiteHamster, on 09/29/2008, -0/+2I agree, there really isn't much point to this, this is for the person who has a (presumably) windows install and wants to boot into Linux for the games? Backwards.
- norman619, on 09/29/2008, -1/+3ethana2:
You ***** me? The games they are offering wouldn't tax a modern PC at all. Hell, they'd run just fine on a 5 year old PC. Better than Vista frame rates? LOL!!!! I thikn you meant "like if you like playing out dated games and pretending they hold a candle to the games available to consoles and PCs." - keeganspeck, on 09/29/2008, -0/+2Our school just locked down the computers we've been using to play games after school on... This, my friend, is perfect.
- flipside3, on 09/30/2008, -0/+1I always thought this was an interesting idea. Reminds me of the bootdisk days of MSDOS gaming. You have a slimmed down optimized OS running just the things you need to play the game. If developers showed interest in this type of system, standardized it, it could be a way to break the MS/DirectX stranglehold. If software rendering makes a comeback with the advent of more powerful main processors, wouldn't this be a good way for gaming companies to have more control over the system they're running on?
- Knet88, on 09/29/2008, -1/+2If we can read others' comments, why did you post?
"If two people agree on the same thing, one of them is not necessary" - Feldon, on 09/29/2008, -0/+1you don't need to install the games and you don't have the OS running more space to run it. but yet again it some out of a live CD.
- CarzorStelatis, on 09/29/2008, -0/+1Even the work/school computer systems run by idiots won't let you use a LiveCD.
- Myztry, on 09/29/2008, -2/+3Considering the hardware specs are what would now be classed as the spare computer, it's an ideal use of old hardware for the kids who are increasingly used to the console approach to gaming.
Certainly beats teaching them to right click and run as administrator to make games work under Vista. - norman619, on 09/29/2008, -1/+2Most console games are ripoffs of PC games.
- AReallyGoodName, on 09/29/2008, -0/+1All the games on there are open-source or freeware.
Full listing of games that appear on the DVD here
http://live.linux-gamers.net/?s=games - inactive, on 09/29/2008, -0/+1http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-p ...
- Knet88, on 09/29/2008, -0/+1I always digg comments like these!***
***I digg them down for not being original, productive to a discussion, and in this case, not even remotely funny. - enterneo, on 09/29/2008, -0/+1this is lame, I rather would take time off to install it on the distro itself. Why would I want to reboot to play a game? and anyway if I was to, would better reboot and run Crysis on Windows :P
- danwallace, on 09/29/2008, -0/+1If I could play these games on my old modded xbox this would be pretty cool.
- inactive, on 09/29/2008, -0/+1Direct download link for .torrent:
http://live.linux-gamers.net/torrents/lg-live-0.9. ... - WhiteHamster, on 09/29/2008, -0/+1Running a LiveCD as a minimal OS? Why not just have straight Ubuntu, it would be MUCH faster
- AReallyGoodName, on 09/29/2008, -0/+1Have you actually played the games on there?
Tremulous which is one of the games on there is damn good - patm1987, on 09/29/2008, -0/+1@20f8
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_for_PlayStation ... - jamesmcm, on 09/29/2008, -0/+1Also, you can add any arch packages you want to the liveDVD before you burn it using the masterme utility.
This is going to be epic for college. - jamesmcm, on 09/29/2008, -0/+1No Urban Terror? WTF thats the _only_ game I play. This would be epic for LAN parties.
EDIT: Urban Terror is provided - see the full list here:
http://live.linux-gamers.net/?s=games - ethana2, on 09/29/2008, -1/+1I use a gamepad with my linux games, and I have this whole custom configuration.
I also use skype while I do multiplayer, and sometimes mumble/murmur, etc..
..so this wouldn't work for me.
I bought an Ubuntu Dell anyways, so I can pretty much just 'install $GAME'*
*install is my .bashrc alias for 'sudo apt-get install'. everyone should use that alias. - ethana2, on 09/29/2008, -2/+2With this, you're running it either way.
May as well just dual boot it for the better-than-vista frame rates. - CarzorStelatis, on 09/29/2008, -1/+1Erm... you can set Run as Administrator permanently in the application properties.
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