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Holiday Games For Linux

Posted by Hemos on from the fun-with-the-penguins dept.

Mark Cappel writes "Here's a holiday guide to games for Linux, published by Linuxworld.com. Share and enjoy." The only game on there that I know some people have been playing is Tetrinet. I've been playing with SC3U quite a bit lately - I highly recommend it.

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  1. Also check out the SDL game list by Mawbid · · Score: 5
    Here it is.

    I really enjoyed Chromium B.S.U. (screenshot).
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  2. No, it's not a contribution by Christopher+B.+Brown · · Score: 3
    It would be a contribution to make a donation to the FSF, or to make a donation to Debian or to Software in the Public Interest. Or XFree86. It would be a contribution to sponsor something on the Free Software Bazaar.

    In contrast, it is not a "contribution" to buy a copy of Civ:CTP, however nice the folks at Loki are.

    The thing that is most irritating about the whole "commercial games" thing is that there are so many middlecritters in between you and the producer of the game. If you pay $40 for a game, it is unlikely that Loki sees much more than $10, which makes this a pretty inefficient way of getting funding to them.

    I've bought games (well, one game) from them, so it would be pretty hypocritical to argue that it's dramatically evil to spend your money that way.

    It's just a bit silly to regard this as a "contribution" when it's largely likely to be a contribution to the bottom line of the retailer rather than the producers...

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  3. Don't forget the classic game by Flounder · · Score: 3
    Reconfiguring your system!

    It's every Linux fan's favorite pasttime. Fun for boys and girls!

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  4. Resist the urge! by technos · · Score: 5

    Please! Do not play Tetrinet! We're losing people right and left to this awful addiction! It ruins your life in ways EverCrack never could!

    It is even begun to creep into the Slashdot Community!! Our very own CmdrTaco (#62 and falling) started playing, and the number of reposts on Slashdot jumped by a factor of three that very day. Rumour has it he has since quit cold-turkey, but the effects will linger for years!

    Closer to home, a freind of mine from Wales has had Tetrinet ruin his sex life, he has gained ten pounds from between match snacking, and when he rarely gets sleep (usually collapsing on the floor next to his computer, quivering from the caffeine that drove him through the last fifteen matches) he has nightmares of Baal himself coming to punish him for the dust gathering on his Diablo II CDs.

    Please! Do not give in to Tetrinet!!

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