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Mandrake Linux Gamer Edition
JWhiton writes: "According to Blue's News, Mandrake and TransGaming are going to ship a new distribution of Mandrake Linux specificially aimed at gamers. It comes with The Sims and TransGaming's WineX for compatibility with Windows games. Apparently it's going to ship on November 9th."
I watched a co-worker attempt to use my laptop which has debian installed on it. How I laughed he actually asked me if I was running XP !!
The dork thought that KDE was XP
Although world domination is the goal, I can't help but wonder if the windoze using public is ready for it.
Be prepared for a whole load of newbie questions to clog up the mandrake mailing lists and newsgroups!
I'm also excited about this. Maybe, finally, I can actually RUN Unreal Tournament! Imagine:
standard linux attempt at launching Unreal
[dopple@c851470-a dopple] unreal
WARNING: Unreal has detected that you want to launch Unreal Would you like a headache? (Yes/Yes)y
WARNING: Missing dependencies
libyousuck.so
libhaha.so
libObscureVoodooDriver.so
WARNING: Unreal is too retarded to find libglide2x.so
WARNING: Unreal has found libglide2x.so, but it is a cursed version
WARNING: X sucks for 3D gaming
error: DRI is enabled, but it wasn't compiled by the programmer's girlfriend.
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Mandrake: Linux Gamer edition
just double-click the Unreal icon. Just like Windows
I tried out Mandrake a couple of years ago and it already shipped with BSDgames and several versions of Tetris.
Sheesh. What more could anyone possibly want?
- Derwen
http://fsfeurope.org/
I'm not an "ubergeek", I just like decent package management!!
I first came to IBM PC in order to play Ultima VII :'we'll never need more'), and use of paging memory, a EMM386 story...
All other motivation was just some excuses !!!
And at that time, I was using a C64.
So when I take My IBM 386sx25 with a hidden dos and a graphic interface that prevents you to do ohter thing than lotus 1-2-3.
I had a hard time.
Remember, Ultima VII needs near 600 Ko of the famous 640 ko (thanks bill for the
I totally srcew up the install, resinstall Dos, learn dos, learn driver management, learn memory management (this was because programmers rarely make user manual, they make developper manual...)
And after 3 days without sleeping, I manage to play to Ultima VII. And it was great !
My friends also go to PC world bevause of games, Monkey island was a goo motivation, for example...
Look at what OS has the more games... And what OS has everything to be on top, but doesn't spread...
All ways that can give us games on linux are good !! All !
And because gamers are tweakers (do you know quake mods ? they are written in quake-c often by people that didn't program at all !), Linux will gain much, much of this communauty !!
Just remember :
GAMES IS THE FUTURE OF THE HUMANITY !!!
(As work will be for the robots, and sex cannot be the meaning of a life...)
Okay, meanwhile, we'll have to do a certain revolution to kick ass of rich, powerful people that think they ca master our lifes... without asking us.. But It'll come !!
A windows gamer, A linux programmer, a life enjoyer !