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Mandrake Linux Gamer Edition

Posted by michael on from the emulate-this dept.

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."

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  1. Is Linux ready for this ? by Anton+Anatopopov · · Score: 2, Funny
    I wonder if the point-and-drool herds that think Linux is the next 'cool' thing will be able to cope with it.

    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!

  2. Re:This is GREAT!! by X-Dopple · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.

    WARNING: Detected posts on Slashdot proclaiming Linux gaming to be the key to mainstream acceptance. Would you like to post as an AC refuting these claims? (Y/Y)

    Mandrake: Linux Gamer edition

    just double-click the Unreal icon. Just like Windows

  3. Surely some mistake by Derwen · · Score: 5, Funny
    ...Mandrake ... aimed at gamers .. released on November 9

    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/
  4. Re:This is why... by Andrewkov · · Score: 5, Funny
    RedHat will take servers, SuSE the scientific/engineering community, Debian the ubergeeks,

    I'm not an "ubergeek", I just like decent package management!!